I've always preferred to build my towers out of soap. They can be pretty big, and soap is a surprisingly sturdy material, it will even work against elephants. It is annoying when you forget to tell people that they can't take the soap and use it though, because sometimes they will take enough soap to make a hole in the wall, and that lets the kobold babysnatcher in.

That's what I meant.

Hey hey, as an unmarried man who has only had one date in his life, please don't bash the institution too hard. ;)

The money goes to the following:

Hookers and blow
Their secret cloning program
Maidens to feed the dragon that guards their classic game vault that they keep denying exists
and 0.05 or so that left goes to the publisher/rights holder.

As a divorced man, they're not going far enough;)

My bet is that CD Projekt young and horny men spend all they money on hookers....

People who made the game never really get any of our money. When they get it it is only for the first few months (probably not more than a year but i would assume its only when a big big dev like bioware signs a contract) of sales. and then only few people of dozens who worked on the game will get a cut.

its all about how contracts are written but... I am pretty certain that any purchase of a game older than one year will result with zero of your money going to the company which made the game... and definitely not to the people who actually made the game (management might get extra bucks)

so when you buy for example Assasin Creed 2 via steam. Valve gets money, Ubi gets money, government gets money, banks get money.
but Jo Smith (random name) who worked on AC2 will get zilch.

it is also true with movies. A lead might share part of the revenue of the movie, a director too... 150 other people? they already got paid. they don't get anything.

Buy Psychonauts - after GOG's commission the developer gets the lot.

Blimey, I've just learnt something. When did Double Fine got the rights back from Majesco?

I don't know. I think it may have been early 2010. Whenever it was, my money had already gone to Majesco :(

Quality bump.

Unless it's an indie title, that's pretty much all you can expect. These older developers, most of which aren't even in existence anymore, hardly ever have owned the rights to most of the IPs here as is.

a) Money for Arcanum always went to Activision. It published the game from the start, it was always getting a cut.

b) GOG already does what you're asking. Whoever is listed as the publisher is the current rights holder for the games. So if you look on the Space Quest page, it lists Activision as the publisher even though it was originally published by Sierra. Same goes for any Eidos game, which now has Square Enix listed on the publisher. So you can pretty clearly see who gets your money nowadays.

Where the money goes from there is really up to behind the scenes royalty contracts between developers and publishers, but that's something that you really can't control.