HiEnergy wrote:There are rumours about the Bitwig company being sold just before an impending release of the software. Is this for real?
I hope they go Kickstarter instead if they have to do something drastic like that. Im sure lots of people would back it. I would without a doubt!
Among the top ten sucsessful projects on Kickstarter (as in money funded) are some games that I was part of backing. Lets say they have like 1 mill users/players. 1 game licence is about $60, and players are likely to buy more then one from the same company. In that respect its not far from smothing like Lives user base. Its something like 1.5 mill Live users. (got it from a Live conference last year) So from the games they usually get between 5-10% of their user base into backing. Between 50k and 100k people. And they gather from 3mill to 5mill dollars.. The most sucsessfull one just reached 20mill, but they are crazy good (and open) about fan funding.
Lots of people dont care, but there are also a solid army that do care. Thus the company doesnt need to be owned by investors or sold to other companies if it needs funds to survive. The fans love to help. Its also great for the fanbase, they feel closer to the company.
Anyway, im just speculating, lets hope they dont need to do anything drastic to survive.
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