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Infinitron She says that "The UO project" contributed funding for *UA* and that doing UO made continuing development of UA possible. That's clearly a lie.
Even in an optimistic case (2,000 copies sold and double the current price), UO made just $20,000 in total revenues. That's revenues, not profit.
To develop UO, according to Chris Siegel, Otherside "added team members locally and partnered with another company" including "one ‘inhouse’ designer, another old LGS hand to help lead the design, and a producer."
https://forums.otherside-e.com/t/underworld-overlord-wtf/9171/4
Even with a Google subsidy, OS has lost money in with UO. It did not contribute any funding to the development of UA. It sucked funds (and probably manpower and other resources) out of the UA project.
They used KS money to make UO, which is a typical sh*t game no one plays, and now they are sending their CM out to tell backers that it was all in the interest of developing UA which is clearly a lie.
It's not about how well the game sold. They were paid to make it. It's kind of like what Epic Games do with their store.