Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-24980562-20151025022704/@comment-26574811-20151030120259

Qunow wrote: DMM fund and own the game, but kadokawa run it. Just think it as Kadokawa build a hotel, than DMM acquire it and Kadokawa still manage to keep the right to manage the hotel. All the servers, programs, assets are on kadokawa side. Just like nowadays startup that have their own idea and are developing them, but a high percent of those startup's stock are belong to others because others fund it. Or if Siover Links want to make a certain idea into anime, then they find TBS to fund it, then TBS might become the major funder for the anime and ranked #1 in anime production committee but the anime is still made by Silver Links not TBS.

Pretty sure while all investment are made by DMM, kadokawa still share a fraction from it as what Kadokawa's CEO were complaining last year were that basically all game revenue are taken by DMM if I remembered correctly.

According to previous info which I might remember incorrectly, C2kikan first come up with the idea of kanmusu and then Tanaka's friend at kadokawa games think the idea can be made into game so they put it into a proposal then go to DMM ask for funding. Then DMM provided funding for the game to be developed by kadokawa. I don't think this constitute a hire relationship? I would prefer imagining DMM owning the "Master Machine" behind KC (the system), and hired KDKW to control this system. DMM is the master of the game (what I understand with "operating" the game), and hired KDKW's people to do the actual work for DMM.

If you looked at the official twitter, it says their HQ is at "Harbor Area, Tokyo", while both DMM and KDKW Games have their base at Shibuya District, Tokyo. I believe that this means KC has an independent office of its own. So "the company that operates KC" now becomes the company that provides the system where the whole game is running under, and/or the company that owns the game, both of them means DMM.

If I remembered correctly, that complaint from KDKW's boss was "We are earning too few money from KC". In other words, "the fraction of KC revenue to KDKW" (which I believe does not exist) + income from merchandises + the paycheck given to KDKW from DMM (which I belive do exist instead of the revenue) is not good enough. If KDKW is getting paid fractional to the sales of KC, there's no reason he is not satisfied, unless if he was stupid enough to sign a contract unfair to his company when all this started.

Let's think again about the anime-like mechanism. Do you know that Silver Link earns absolutely zero yen from the sales of Blu-ray disc of its own anime? (unless if it is also part of the production committee, no investment, no share) They got paid for a certain amount of money before making it, and then pay for everything themselves in order to make the anime, deliver their work, and enjoy the rest of the money. Since we now agree that KC was made under a collaboration machanism similar to an anime, I do not believe that a firm who paid zero yen for the production would get anything from the sales of the product, which is also very possibly the sole reason why KDKW's boss complained. Instead, they are paid of a "production/development fee", probably monthly or annually, that's where Tanaka and his men got paid from.