Are Game Publishers worth it?

General Discussions
#1

Hello guys, we are getting closer to releasing our game made in Java for iOS and Android.

We came to the idea of partnering with a publisher. We know that there are some companies that publish your game under their account and company name, where you share your income with them.

I think it might me a good way to solve the distribution problem we might face.

Do you know any of this companies/publishers?
Is this the correct thing to do? should we release our game on our own account?

Please help us!

Thanks a lot!

#2

Release it on your own. If that fails, try a publisher.

Cas :slight_smile:

#3

If you have really good game just contact directly to Apple or Google. Their weekly featuring is a lot more extra visibility than any publisher can give you.

#4

How do I find one???

#5

Find what?

#6

A Mobile Game Publisher!

#7

Seriously, don’t bother looking for a publisher yet. Sell it yourself. If it makes a million, you’ll be glad of not having a publisher. If it just breaks even, you’ve done extraordinarily well and maybe a publisher might be able to make you some more money, maybe not. If it doesn’t even break even, it’s probably a dead loss and a publisher won’t want it anyway.

Cas :slight_smile:

#8

Well a publisher might advertise your game and make sure it sells better. Better exposure.

#9

Project Wonderful has some really good advertising, and cheap too. Lots of people use it. (Including JGO with google adwords)

http://www.projectwonderful.com/
https://www.google.ca/adwords/

#10

It’s not really beneficial to publisher to advertise a mobile game. They would have to pay 100% of ad cost but they only get small percentage(20-30%) of profits. This is not a good deal at all. On freemium games they usually make deal that one who pay for the customers get to re-coup that money at first.

Publisher usually have solid contacts to press and platform holders which will help a bit but on other hand then your game is pretty faceless.