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Ah I see, no they only get paid for premium games, publishers don't get anything for free games Yep, I kind of figured they didn't. I didn't figure that there would be any immediate payoff from BGA for publishers taking games non-Premium. My primary market strategy is temporarily taking the "d...

SiRan90 wrote: ↑22 July 2026, 22:30I get that, but the game isn't in print so interest in the game wont generate anything for the publisher

More plays on BGA: mo' money for the publisher.

Admittedly, I don't know if they get "usage" royalties. This is all hypothetical at this point.

Then again, if no one does their part, no one will benefit either. Agreed. But no one is creating the tables currently. And some users can 't. Remove the Premium status for now, and see if letting everyone do their part benefits everyone. If it doesn't, reenable it. There are people playing it, not...

tbhp wrote: ↑22 July 2026, 17:49
Then again, if no one does their part, no one will benefit either.

Agreed. But no one is creating the tables currently. And some users can't.

Remove the Premium status for now, and see if letting everyone do their part benefits everyone. If it doesn't, reenable it.

So eliminating the deadwood would be beneficial to the publishers as people who get paid. And/or BGA. Yes? No? Removing their own premium games is never directly beneficial for a publisher, as it just reduces their share of the total premium pool. Removing other publishers' premium games, I'm sure ...

As noted above, the more Premium games there are, it seems that the less money goes to the publishers. So apparently, publishers would also like less games to be premium. Or BGA makes less money, as they pay out more publishers with games that are Premium. So eliminating the deadwood would be benefi...

If I create something, and another company wants to use that product to make money , I'm definitely going to want some of that money. That isn't 'capitalism bad'. It's common sense. Also, the digital version that you see on BGA isn't the company 'spending resources on products that no one is gonna ...

If Coal Baron is not considered very well, why is it Premium? why you ask the question here? It's the publisher's decision - you should ask them what their reasons are. Or ask them if maybe they're willing to change it. Here we can only guess what their reason might be. Why I ask the question here?...

Publishers (most of the time) make the decision on whether a game is premium or not. They get some revenue based on how many games are played. I'm guessing they would rather get some to little money than no money for their game being on here I'd agree. But what about the site users, ie the customer...

Cigma: I'm trying not to focus on one particular game. However your points are kind of my point. If Coal Baron is not considered very well, why is it Premium? I don't doubt some people are unfond of it. And there are reasons for why anything is Premium. It just seems that there should be someone at ...