I Feel after reading EVERY single Post (I'm trying to get Revel going and i need to learn to do that sort of thing, don't ask me about Revel this is BS's forum) That retail should go really well.
Unfortuantely people stop playing, so people may stop before retails release (to stop others complaining i will say they might come back just for Retail though).
An Overall Profit made could possibly be on estimate:
$5 US = $40 US profit in about 3 months
$10 US = $80 Profit in about 3 months
$15 US = $120 Profit in about 3 months
$20 US = $160 Profit in about 3 months
$25 US = $200 Profit in about 3 months
I would not recomend any higher prices then $25 US but if you wish for more you can:
$30 US = $240 in about 3 months
$35 US = $280 in about 3 months
$40 US = $320 in about 3 months
$45 US = $320 in about 3 months
$50 US = $400 in about 3 months
Be wary that these profits are based on 8 people purchasing in 3 months, but the higher the price the chances are that less people will buy within a month.
Of course all of these prices other then $5 US - $10 US will be sufficient to make up for Indie version of the Game engine but only prices from $40 US - $50 Scrape enough to support just the commercial. Neither of these though support the purchase of both the Game Engine it's self and the Commercial liscense allowing BS to sell the retail version.
Alot of you (or the noobs of you any way, no offence) dpn't seem to understand that Badspot isn't doing this for pure profit, it is costing him more to make the retail version then you think.
Although People will come and his profit may rise, it's all dependent on the price he sells it.
I'd of loved to Beta test this, but obviously i didn't do enough (It's pretty Crystal clear actually that i havn't) or anything of the sort to gain this sort of position.
If any of you guys really want to Beta test something, search the web for something, you don't usually have to pay for Beta testing, and some cases you get payed for it
(not this case and don't expect it ever will be).
The Point of this post is to prove a point and to help BS decide on a price thats fair, but is helpful to him.
I will help as much as i can without actually using the Beta, but my abilities are very limited being, unfortunately for this case, 12.
This is just a really quick map to give off ideas, not to actually be used properly.
testmap_b60f6c7a.zip
