Its added to the cash pile of the company, then used to show investors/hire people (for small studios, it's never guaranteed you get paid btw, or that the contributions to your 401(k) are actually maded, etc etc. I've seen studios even lie about insurancec).
Well it depends, but 99% of the time - no they won't.
The team behind fallout: new vegas (wildly considered a top 100 if not top 25 games of all times, and a HUGE part of my childhood) was guaranteed a bonus if the game had a 85 average on metacritic.
It got 84.
part of the reason was the insane amount of bugs at release. Guess who rushed the game out to avoid paying that bonus?
Its added to the cash pile of the company, then used to show investors/hire people (for small studios, it's never guaranteed you get paid btw, or that the contributions to your 401(k) are actually maded, etc etc. I've seen studios even lie about insurancec).
in other words... devs won't see a copper from this grant
only the "shareholders"
Well it depends, but 99% of the time - no they won't.
The team behind fallout: new vegas (wildly considered a top 100 if not top 25 games of all times, and a HUGE part of my childhood) was guaranteed a bonus if the game had a 85 average on metacritic.
It got 84.
part of the reason was the insane amount of bugs at release. Guess who rushed the game out to avoid paying that bonus?
wow, now that's another piece of jewthesda lore i've been bestowed upon...