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Originally Posted by adultmobile
You sure?
If you meant Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty or FIFA it is profitable, that's true but to develop these it cost several million and it is not you doing these games anyway.
About Minecraft yes cool story bro, but that happens as often as a facebook story: it does not happen to you.
I released several games in past 15 years (home computers, mobile phones), and in most cases I ended in loss, also you need to release new games for new platforms every year - much easier to do $$ in adult, at least cams, after site is up, it runs ok for years.
95% of independent game developers end up in loss. Example, average iphone/android game sales (advertising + in-app purchase) makes $500-$1000 for whole game lifetime (a year or 2) - development time well worth more than $1k. Source code of games is for sale for $100-$300 in auction sites. Top sals games spent lots $$ in advertising, the viral thing it is a legend, check there are affiliate networks for web games much like adult (and they use PHP very often).
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Well i got that impression based on people who i know and which work as java programmers - they were all doing on games only.But for right answer it would require deeper analysis/research,as while url's which is posted shows job statistic,they dont show exactly what they need java programmers.
And it's not minecraft only game with such success,but again it is possible how it is just media hype ,since i heard a bit toomuch time how some shitty mobile games was sold in million copies and brought a lot of monies to it's creators.