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Good news about publishers? Surely not ;)

cliffski · 2001-08-16T19:44:13

We get a lot of very emotional stuff typed on here about budget publishers and I thought that it might be helpfull if people posted what they knew about good publishers rather than get into big arguments. So here goes: RealGames ========= These guys are by far the most professional budget publishers I have come accross. Of course they have Real.coms big money behind them so I guess its no surprise. They always got back to me very quickly, by email or phone, and the checks arrive on time (even early some months). They have a superb QA department, (who even agreed to pose for the crew photos in one of my games) and I am happy with the terms of my deal with them. (dont ask for figures, there is an NDA, I couldnt tell you...) RegSoft ======= These guys handle the credit card payments for my shareware games. All I can say is that over 3 years, I havent ever had a single problem with them. They take a big commision, but no more so (AFAIK) than any of the other similar services EGames ====== These guys can be a little slow to get back to you on stuff, either by email or phone. they also have a tendency to call you at 12PM when you are in the UK egames seem to have very good distribution, but the downside is that they want family-friendly stuff suitable for very novice gamers, and they dont offer especially big royalty cuts. XTremeGames =========== I never actually took a deal with them, but I have experience of the contract. The terms may not be to everyones liking, but to be honest, these guys seem to take games at a much lower level than the others. Your game may well get turned down by Realgames, yet get accepted by Andre, and thats no bad thing. I''m not going to step into the huge flame war about crystal interactive, its not worth it, so please dont get this (hopefully usefull) post deleted by posting lots of crystal-related stuff on here. Thanks http://www.positech.co.uk

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Started by cliffski August 13, 2001 06:36 AM

9 comments, last by cliffski 22 years, 10 months ago

Anonymous

August 16, 2001 07:44 PM

"I think it is good enough I may see about submitting it to XTremeGames"

LOL, a game being good enough to submit it to someone different from xgames would have made sense, but not the opposite