Shallow Question

[bazzaro135]

This is a shallow question but has anyone really made a profit from a game here?

 

[BlissAuthority]

Commercial games made with RPGMaker have sold, yes.

 

[Kes]

And there are indie devs who make their entire living by selling the games they make.  It's not easy, though.

 

[Andar]

This is a shallow question but has anyone really made a profit from a game here?

Yes, if you look at the signatures of commercial games on this forum, then you'll realise that there are several developers who have already done a few dozen commercial games with RM and are living from selling those.
That said, you need a good quality of a game before you have a chance of selling it - you can't simply do a game on your weekends and get rich from that. Especially you'll need to make yourself known to have a chance of sales, because there are too many free projects (most abandoned or really bad due to inexperience) made with RM.


I suggest you start by making a decent non-commercial game to get the feel for the engine and the workload of making a game with 1-2 playing hours bug-free before you start with your first commercial project.


I explained the problems in more detail in the link in my signature.