Twenty years after releasing Dwarf Fortress for free, brothers Tarn and Zach Adams have a new identity: millionaires. The image upgrade version of “Dwarf Fortress” was released on December 6, and the price is 30 US dollars. The price in different regions varies slightly, and the price in China is 108 yuan. It sold 160,000 copies on the first day of release, reached 300,000 copies a week later, and earned close to $9 million. Valve wanted to take 30% of the share, and the Adams brothers and several developers involved in the graphics upgrade version also With $6 million to divide, the Adams brothers should be millionaires, even accounting for regional price differences. Tarn Adams said he worked on the project for 20 years, so dividing by 20 puts the salary in the range of a normal tech worker, though still high. Zach joked that we found a surefire way to save money: don’t sell anything for 20 years, then throw stuff out. For this huge sum of millions of dollars, Zach said that his wife plans to buy a new house, and the house she lives in now is too small. Tarn said he needed time to think about it all.
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