What would you consider a fair price?
Kia
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True,
But compared to my hourly rate of $40, this seems pretty reasonable.
I've priced it cheaper at first, but since I'm forced to pay 30% tax to USA gov, even though I don't live there, I had to raise the price and pass the cost to my clients.
If you want it at the original price, you can contact me on discord: kiaazad
Not really, most of it goes to corrupt officials that have nothing better to do than creating laws to oppress us, throw us in jail and limit our freedoms.
We are paying for police force that hate us, educational system that make our kids dumb, healthcare that keeps us sick, militaries that starts wars and the economy that keeps us poor.
We would've thrive if only the government would've leave us alone.
Unfortunately greed of the taxman always hurts the consumer and the platform.
Instead of handling taxes the right way, the platform passes the cost to the seller, and the seller will pass the cost to the client. At the end it will make using the platform more expensive for the client, and that hurts the platform's competitiveness
I'm not talking about all of the process that goes on before I receive the money, itch should slap those costs on the client's total.
And I'm not talking about how much paypal takes from the withdrawn money, I pay that anyways.
I'm talking about the difference between balance that I've sold and the balance that I can withdraw.
And yes, I think taxation is theft, since it goes to the dirty politicians and their corrupt contracts, funding wars, distributing drugs, DEI, woke bullshit, growing the government like cancer, and oppressing people. It never goes to a worthy cause that helps the citizens.
Not selling to them is not evading, it's refusing to take their money in the first place.
There is two issues:
1- my country doesn't have a tax treaty with US.
2 - the fees should be paid by the clients not the seller.
But I'm being forced to pay for hotels to host illegal aliens that don't work.
Even that 30% sounds more reasonable compare to the half that I'm missing over here. At least they're upfront in the percent they'll take, and I can factor that into my prices.
Who said I want to evade taxes?
Tax is the money that government extort from you in the name of upkeeping the city and country that you live in. I don't live in US, why do I have to give them half of the money I'm spending my valuable time to earn? If Fani Willis wants romantic getaways with her lover boy she should extort US citizens, not me.
I've been doing math with my gross revenue and my available balance for withdrawal, and the numbers do not add up after taking into account itch.io 's cut.
I think somebody is stealing from me, with the "tax" excuse and I suspect it's US and European countries.
I'm being extorted by the local bully already, I don't want another hand from across the world in my pockets as well. How can I make my content unavailable to the countries with intent to steal from me?
Since I know the reason, let me share it with you: The main hurdle is consistency. AI often generates stunning images, but none of them are consistent with each other, and a game demands a coherent style and often multiple images of the same characters, and since humans are good at spotting inconsistencies in faces and bodies, the results are often too jarring to use.
And thank you for your kind words, your complements mean a lot to me.
Thank you, I personally prefer art drawn by an actual artist, it would come out cheaper considering how much time I have to spend on SD and photoshop to make these. But unfortunately finding an artist that I can rely on proved impossible.
I like the idea of TTS, my plan however was hiring voice actors once the game gathers a big enough following. It's too early though.
They were promising a better environment for creators when I joined, I remember years ago, they came to the forum, talking about their new platform and how they will cater to our needs if we join. But I guess greed got the best of them over the years...
If you search `itch.io alternatives` , the main reason creators are unhappy with itch is: being ignored by support. Looks like they've forgot that without real creators, they won't have anything to make money from, other than stolen junk.