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Reply To: (KS) Ninja Division/Soda Pop out of money for Super Dungeon Explore: Legends

February 20, 2019 at 3:21 pm #1351880

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Meledrakh- Soda Pop Minaitures is owned by the same three blokes that own Ninja Division. They started the second company in order to fulfill separate functions.

I have seen “licensing fees” paid from Kickstarters with completely original IPs quite a lot, so I’m really not sure to what extent it is people paying themselves- it is just as likely that they’re paying someone else.

For example, I know that the original Relic Knights game designer was Kevin Clark (not part of Ninja Division- he is also responsible for some game designs for CMON and Privateer Press- I know that Privateer Press pays royalties to their outside game designers, so ND probably paid him for the RK Kickstarter). License fees may also represent payments to artists or writers. Hell, you have to pay a “licensing fees” for the font you’re using on a published book.

In any case, even if the licensing fees does represent the payment to the three owners (and some of it may) we can all see that it was far from enough to sink/save any of these campaigns.

From the AG letter, we have learned that the three owners are currently in worse financial positions than they were in before (owners were moving into smaller homes to try and save the business).

While some disagree, I feel quite strongly that the three owners would have gained a great deal more financially had they delivered on their Kickstarters, and had very little to gain from sinking them.