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Razer Will Pay Indie Devs What Ouya Owes Them

Razer Will Pay Indie Devs What Ouya Owes Them - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 29 July 2015 / 3,330 Views

As reported earlier, several indie developers who worked on games for Ouya have expressed concern that money owed to them would go unpaid following Razer's acquisition of the company.

Razer, however, has now tried to ease their concerns by confirming that they will pay any money owed.

 "What we want to do is make sure we support indie developers," Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan told Polygon. "Razer will be backing the new Ouya publishing arm. So we are going to try and make good on this fund and give these developers an option."

The option would be for developers to sign a new contract with Razer that has the same specifics as the old deal with Ouya, with two exceptions: the game will no longer have to be exclusive to Ouya and the money given to developers will be used to give away copies of the game to users on Razer's Cortex storefront.

"The financial terms remain largely the same," Tan added. "This was a marketing campaign for Ouya to bring games to the Ouya platform exclusively. We don't want exclusives for any platform. What we will ask for is that whatever sums we invest in a game, we would like that same amount to be given away on Cortex."

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A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.


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3 Comments
Teeqoz (on 29 July 2015)

"We don't want exclusives for any platform"

That's just because they don't have a studio that can produce decent exclusives lol.

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Darwinianevolution (on 29 July 2015)

I'm happy for the indies, but I still can't imagine what is Razer going to do with the OUYA brand.

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Mystro-Sama (on 29 July 2015)

Why the hell did Razer buy Ouya anyways?...

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