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Mercenary Action Figure released as DLC

Josh

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The Leadwerks Mercenary Action Figure has been released as a DLC. Previously, I talked about how the Workshop Store was not selling much content, and that we need game-ready content to be available to use in Leadwerks. At the same time, DLC sales are quite good, which seems contradictory.

 

To date, this item has total sales of $299 since release and cost $2000 to produce. (Additional characters will be a bit cheaper if we reuse animations.) After Steam's cut, I've lost $1800 on this project at this point. For that reason, I have halted production of additional characters.

 

By releasing this item as a DLC, I can answer a few questions:

  • Will a single model released as a DLC sell?
  • Can we produce our own exclusive HD content in a sustainable manner?
  • What is the difference between Workshop Store sales and DLC sales for the same exact item? I am very interested in getting this statistic and showing it to Valve.

 

If this DLC item sells enough to cover my costs of production by August 1st (three months), then I will begin production of two additional characters and make it a pack. If that sells then we can start producing all kinds of character packs for every type of game, using the same studio to give us consistent artwork. Here are some of the other sketches that were created during production.

 

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Josh

I hope to add at least two more characters and make it a pack, but before that happens having sales data for the same exact item in both locations will be very useful.

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Rick

I can't help but feel like you got ripped off with paying $2k for that model. The thing looks deformed in certain areas and the animations don't even seem that high of quality. Tim could have done a better job and would have probably been cheaper. In fact you might want to talk to him about our DA Gavin character to see if he'd be interested in selling it to you and adding/tweaking some animations for it. Could possibly add another high quality character really quickly for fairly cheap I would imagine. Not to put words into Tim's mouth but it might pay to ask him.

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thehankinator

I'd be all about another crawler style creature. Anyway I think it's cool the Merc is available, I've been meaning to pick it up for a while now.

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Josh

Tim could have done a better job and would have probably been cheaper.

I never do business with or give special privileges to any Leadwerks users. If I do, they will leave. There must be some weird psychological effect behind that.

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