Current Events > Is this 800 bucks lost, or thirteen days of sanity gained?

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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/contribute/faq_bounty?bounty=23

I gaped a bit at the $1000 bounty tag for Yakuza 6, when so many other games are $200, but then I wondered if it was meant to be bait for people who already had the JP version.

Which I don't.

Yakuza 6 comes out on April 17th, so either I take off work and blast through the guide in 13 days, or it gets reduced to probably 200 on the first of May. A good and patient guide from me will take a month. If I rush it, I'll probably "drain the well" of my creative juices (what little I have) and it'll be relatively poor quality.
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I didn't know there was money for writing guides.
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how many hours of work will it take you to write the guide?

how much money would you lose to take off work to do so?

If you do the math, I hardly see how this is profitable

So like I said, a good and patient guide for a game this size will take me about a month, I'd say.

I'd be taking Paid Time Off from work, I wouldn't lose any money. Maybe a bit of prestige for springing such a long time away from work only a month out.

My issue is whether a guide I crank out will be any good and up to my standards.

I mean, I'm making the guide regardless. Money or no money.

I'm asking on the FAQ Contrib board whether it was made knowing the game had been delayed a month. I mean, $1000 is a lot of money, but it IS an open-world game, and RDR2, for example, is being placed at $2500.
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How many guides do they accept per bounty?

I wouldnt make a move until you can get a straight answer.

Youve contributed quite a bit so hopefully they recognize that
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You can always submit and get bounty and then revise to desired quality, no?
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JE19426 posted...

How many guides do they accept per bounty?

One.

It's an odd little system. In the old days it was first claim, first served. If people were dueling guides, then it'd go to the first person who finished to the specified standards and claimed the bounty. I honestly cannot tell you how often, if at all, that has happened, so I don't know to what level the drama has arisen over it.

Under the new system, you can lock a bounty, but those are granted at the discretion of the administration. Basically, you'll be prioritized for a lock if you have a pedigree of writing. I don't think I'd have a problem getting a lock on the Yakuza 6 guide.

AvantgardeAClue posted...

I wouldnt make a move until you can get a straight answer.

Youve contributed quite a bit so hopefully they recognize that

As I said, I'm making the guide no matter what. The money isn't important: I make that in less than a week at my job, BUT if I CAN get good money out of doing something I enjoy, I'll go for it.

DoomtheGrav posted...

You can always submit and get bounty and then revise to desired quality, no?

There is a minimum quality necessary for claiming a bounty. It's always at the discretion of the administration, and frankly, I'd rather not tempt a lower-quality outing if it's obvious I'm outputting less than I normally do.

Regardless, I hope I get my straight answer today. It IS one of the higher tiered bounties on there and if I can secure it, I will.
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So did the research on the other items on the Bounty List. Most bounties close at the end of April, and it's for games that come out in March or are already out. The only bounties that are due earlier are ones that were already on the list for some time (like Shadow of War). The bounties that are due later than that come out at least a month before their due date.

Which is to say that the due date going forward is the end of the month following the game's release. I never paid too close attention to Bounties, really, but this seems to be the standard for it. That gives the writer at a minimum a month to work on it.

I've also noticed that "Penny-Punching Princess" is coming out in April and is due at the end of May.

So that jives with my notion that the Y6 bounty was either created in the system before the announce of the delay, or whoever created it wasn't aware of the delay and was working off old information.

If I don't get an answer by the end of the day in the topic I posted in, I'll message Devin about it. I'm sure it's a mistake they can correct, and if so, I'm going to jump on that Bounty Lock like it's Linda Cardellini wearing glasses.
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alt_no_1_loves posted...

I didn't know there was money for writing guides.

I do.
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Depends on how tedious the writing process is and how much that money means to you. Since you'd be treating this as a job instead of a hobby, that changes the approach a bit.

Personally, I probably couldn't do it. The minimum for me to write a guide for even a short game is about week, and I remember the Harvest Moon guide taking over two months (I did decompile the game code for that, however). Cramming a huge game into 13 days would drive me insane, if I actually had the time to do it at this point in my life.
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