Thanks to redben over on beasts of war for spotting this,
since CMON is now listed on the stock exchange (Hong Kong) we can now look at the financial reports they provide investors, just as we can do for
GW https://cmon-files.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/cmon_file/file/148/results_announcement_english.pdf Income = $21 million, up 22.1%
Gross Profit = $10.7 million, again up 22.6% so price rises/efficiencies have slightly more than covered increased costs
Actual take home profit = $1 million, down from $1.8 million last time (basically because they bought out the others : 7 sins IP for $895,000)
this covers 39 board games, 3 war games and a mobile game
now Kickstarter accounts for $11.5 million this year up from $9.5 million the previous year so while they take a lot of money from
KS it's only just over half their company income (i'd expected it to be more, so I'm pleasantly surprised and all those who think CMON is 'just' a
KS company need to think again)
Boardgames make up 98% of their income, the war games only 1% ($189,000) so while I wish they'd get wrath of kings and dark age distribution sorted for the
UK (its meant to be happening) I can see why it's not a major priority for them
oh and they're making plans about alternative crowd funding options if for whatever reason they cant use
KS in the future (I doubt they'll need to use them, but smart to have them)