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the game sold around 15k units in germany in one year... that is around 5 times as much as a similar game in the same price range...





Do you mean that, on average an Indie programmer can expect to sell about 3000 copies a year ?
How did you get these figures ?
It does not seem so bad
Assuming a 20 usd selling price, 50 % for the publisher
The Indie programmer can cash 30.000 usd per game a year ?
Ok take off cost and tax
You can not make a live but not so bad