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I've had Google charge me $0.01 before for firebase usage.
They really should have waited until I owed more since that cost them money.
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2024
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Once a month I'd have to pay a few pennies to Google for our cloud use at a school district I worked for. It always baffled me!
On my personal AWS account, Im paying them 0.17 cents a month.
I wonder if they pay a fee since it's hooked into my credit card.
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They should almost just make it so the blaze plan of firebase or other cloud services has a $1 non refundable pre-payment so they can just whittle away at the pennies instead of getting charged processing/transaction fees on a $0.01 transaction. Tops up to $1 if it goes to $0
I think people would pay $1 to enable the paid plans. If you're going that far, you're getting $1 of use out of it.
I have lots of bills that are less than that every month, and yet somehow I can't just say they're not worth paying...
I am guessing you dont have service providers from all over the globe with international transaction fees
If I did I'd probably have lots of little satellite offices in various regions to make that easier.
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I guess I shouldn't be expected to pay for games until my total is over a hundred bucks then?
I'm sure if you owed them 100 bucks they'd demand it
Fairly certain I've bought a game that was like 34 cents or something. I definitely charged me the 34 cents.
Hey me too! I released my first game on Steam a month ago and by all objective measures it was a flop, but as a hobbyist I'm still proud of it. It honestly did better than I thought for a small niche game that I did a terrible job of marketing, and my one review so far was quite positive so I'll count that as a small win as I move onwards to the next game.
By the way, here's the game for anyone interested: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2792160/SnowDown/
I didn't expect to see so many replies!
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you cant just SAY that and then not mention the game name
wow you really are bad at marketing
The eternal conflict between being an indie dev and not wanting to be a shill :'(
What is the game? It's not being a shill to answer questions.
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Oof, though you're not wrong!
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Considering you're a hobbyist and probably don't have marketing, it's too soon to say it's a flop. Many games like that pop off later once it gets seen.
I appreciate the optimism! I hope it can find an audience over time, but it's definitely tough to stand out. For now, I'm aiming to just keep making games and improving, rather than giving up after the first try, which sadly seems to happen a lot out there.
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I released a game like three years ago and it's earned $97 in that time.
I feel your pain
Buy it yourself, get over 100, cash out
Haha, I've considered it. I'd really like to at least be able to buy pizza for the gang who helped make the game.
Which game is it?
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Thank you all so much for your interest! :)
The game is called Shoot Your Friends. It's a death match couch game for 2-4 players who share a screen and pilot tanks around an arena.
Please be aware that it is somewhat niche, it's only compatible with controllers and local multiplayer. But if you ever get the gang over for game night it can be a fun way to spend the evening.
I too, played "Combat" on Atari.
Looks like fun, I'll play it with my kids!
shoot your friends
Done. Will you now tell me what it's called?
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For context: I make indie games and have released two so far and I'm currently working on the third one which is weird as fuck. So the way that Steam works is, they don't send you money anytime you make a sale, but they send all of it at the end of every month. Now September is almost over and I got an e-mail titled "Steam Payment Notification" and I get all hyped up. I open it and read it that the Payment Notification is actually that there is no Payment since I didn't make $100 in sales. Way to hype me up and bring me down, Steam.
Youtube and twitch work this same way. When I was starting there were months where I didnt make any money because I didn't meet the minimum. Hoping next month meets the requirement for you boss 🙏
Does the balance at least accumulate until you do hit the threshold, or is the money just gone?
It accumulates, so there is no money lost. It does kinda suck though that as you start, even though you can make money and did make a bit you don't get to see it yet
It does make sense from a payment processing standpoint. It doesn't make sense to spend more money on creating the transaction than is actually being sent.
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Happens to me almost every month. Good thing I didn't quit my day job.
Out of curiosity, have you had some big pay days? Or just enough to treat yourself?
I don't think I ever got more than $200 in a month. But I keep the money in a separate account and only use it for game dev or business stuff.
If a game gets lost in the steam store and no one ever plays it, was it ever a game at all?
Nope just someone's crushed hopes and dreams at that point lol
If you want to support me, a wishlist of my current game will mean the world to me: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2336120/Do_Not_Press_The_Button_To_Delete_The_Multiverse/
But please don't spend money on my previous games, I recognize that they aren't that good I don't want to burden anyone financially with them (I loved every minute of making them, but I was still a noob back then).
FYI you have a typo in your last screenshot (This sign m[a]y not...):
But please don't spend money on my previous games, I recognize that they aren't that good I don't want to burden anyone financially with them (I loved every minute of making them, but I was still a noob back then).
You're not my mum! I bought Be a Rock anyway. Keep going, make games!
I believe in you!
Funnily I saw the playthrough of your game in YouTube and it really looks like a labour of love. As the guy who did the playthrough suggested, still need to buy it as a thank you.
Or is that another game with a red button? The maker of the game I'm thinking about wrote a comment on YouTube
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itch.io once sent me 4$
My bank: "We have a new valuation on your home! Open your app to see it!"
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"It's down 2%!"
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