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by amiraliakbari 2848 days ago
Probably not, but expectations change through time - especially if you make such a successful game. Quoting from The Making of Karateka Journals:

"February 13, 1982 Scott Barnes from Hayden called. Will they ever publish Asteroids? It’s been over a year — fifteen months — since I submitted it and they accepted it. (Sigh.) If they only sell 1,000 copies, I’ll make $4,500 — if they sell 5,000, I’ll make $22,500 — ridiculously high sums of money. Right now I only have $500, counting everything. So why am I not on the phone with them every morning, pushing, pushing? Oh well. When I finish Deathbounce and sell it, I’ll be rich and then I can stop worrying about money for the next few years."