I'm pretty sure we're all of sound mind and reasonable experience, but thanks for the personal insult lol.
It's a godawful deal.
15% of revenue over 750k essentially means you will never expand beyond a certain point, and further, the deal is only for two years. Even if you get to keep the 15% after that (which isn't certain - you might go back up to 25%), you lose all the advertising, so you're now paying 15% over 750k for... nothing. And as I noted, the more people who took the deal, the less good it would be.
Also I note you just called LITERALLY ALL THE TOP 3PP DEVELOPERS "stupid" or "born yesterday", because they thought this was a bad deal. Are you sure that's your position? All major 3PP developers are dumbasses or incredibly naive? Really?
Don’t know you were born, is an expression for not knowing how lucky you are. I didn’t say anyone was stupid.
If you are substantially over the $750k mark then it may not be worthwhile. If you are under then the advertising opportunity is golden.
Also people are fundamentally misunderstanding/misrepresenting the maths…
$750,000 revenue annually = $0 commission 0%
$800,000 revenue = $7,500 commission 0.9%
$1,000,000 revenue = $37,500 commission 3.75%
$1,500,000 revenue = $112,500 commission 7.5%
The suggestion that these figures can’t be profitable at over $750,000 is ridiculous.
I don’t think 3pp were born yesterday. They want to keep more of their own money. I don’t think that’s stupid. Neither do I think it’s something that’s intrinsically good for the hobby or somehow better than WotC having some of it. They’re all capability entrepreneurs.
I don’t buy the idea that these figures are crippling. If overheads are that tight, you just put the price up by 3-7% which is what? $1.50 - $3.50 on a large hardback. Which is a stretch anyway because while the first book you print/publish/put online costs you $150,000 to make, the second one costs you a couple of dollars / nothing.