• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    My understanding is they’ve been making 30k a month from their Patreon.

    Which is also the main reason they were vulnerable to a lawsuit, because they’ve been profiting off of the emulator (which why legal by itself, is only popular enough to make money due to piracy).

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      8 months ago

      $2.4M is 8 years’ worth in that case, assuming they were making that much the entire time. And of course a lot of that money was probably for the devs to afford basic living expenses.

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        8 months ago

        6 years and 8 months, but yeah I can’t see them having the money, even if they saved everything.

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      8 months ago

      I’m just surprised they’re able to make so much money developing free software…

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        8 months ago

        The most recent version of Yuzu (which theoretically has the best performance) is semi-locked behind their Patreon.

        This was especially important when TotK came out, because they were making a bunch of tweaks to improve performance for that game. So people who wanted to play TotK needed to subscribe to get the best results (or build from source, I’m assuming).