Well, yeah, possible and understandable. We’ll know once it’s finished. I think he might take a break after this one is done and patched. But overall, I'd say he's passionate about his work, and SAO is financially way more successful than his previous games.
Although it is true that he has a main job, Fujino receives extra income from Patreon and Ci-en. Lately, living in Japan is very complicated, inflation has increased a lot, and they are poorer due to salary devaluations, so having that extra income can make a difference and that is also an incentive to continue enduring. So I don't think he'll leave the projects.
I don't know how much he makes from his regular job but he makes about $3,000 a month from the game so I think he probably won't quit.
There's no way he makes that little. On Ci-EN he's got 37k supporters. If 10% of them is paying and 90% is pirating (going by the average plan price) that would still be about 40k per month. And that's just CI-EN, then you've got patreon
Additional income? Fujino has hidden information about the number of paid subscribers on Patreon. But if we just assume based on the subscribers of CI-en and their growth after he started making SAO. These are all pure assumptions, but I think Fujino has anywhere from 400+ paid subscribers on Patreon, from $1 to $10. That is, in the worst case scenario, he gets 400 + dollars per month. But such a science as mathematical statistics denies the possibility of such a thing (or rather, the probability is infinitesimally small) that all subscribers pay only 1 dollar. I'm paying 10, and I'm already violating statistics. I think mostly a large number of subscribers use the average tariff. 5-7 dollars. And I think Fujino has 2000-3000 dollars from Patreon. 300,000 - 430,000 thousand yen per month, and that's not counting CI-en. What kind of job does he have if Patreon is an additional income?
Even if all these subscribers pay the minimum tariff, it's still 73,000 yen. But again, as I said, this is statistically unlikely, so I think with Ci-en he has 100+ thousand yen. Not a fountain, of course (you won't starve to death), but if you add the Patreon here, then these are completely different prospects.
Fujino has a huge selection of popular titles that are as big as SAO in terms of fans, so I don't think he'll stay hungry, lol.
That won't be possible, since he needs to work full-time to stay in Japan. As far as I know, part-time work alone isn't enough for a visa — Japan usually requires a certain minimum income or a full-time job. Starting an indie dev studio as a foreigner is also tough, unless he has a proper visa like the Business Manager one, which needs investment, a real office, and a solid business plan.
oh, you are correct.
from the way you say it, it sounds like you haven't had a great experience with AI.an artist can use AI to take some inspiration and then draw changing something, AI is just a help when one has no ideas what to draw and for me it's just a hobby, IA does not take the place of the artist
It's not about that; you just need to be creative, like with any art. But if you use the same program, filters, and settings, you'll likely get similar results as anyone else.
