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    • DojanEnglish
      15•1 month ago

      +1

      The people that matter have gotten paid anyway, unless of course the publisher steal from them too, which happens from time to time, see Bethesda and Mick Gordon.

      • magic_lobster_party
        13•1 month ago

        And the studio will be shut down either way regardless if the game was a success or not. See Hi Fi Rush.

        • @[email protected]English
          4•1 month ago

          These big game publishers and studios really aren’t giving people a reason to pay for stuff. Pay for it:

          • it doesn’t belong to you
          • it comes with malware aka “anticheat”
          • the dev team is fired even if it’s successful
          • sequels are canceled

          Seriously, what’s the point of paying them?

          Anti Commercial-AI license

        • DojanEnglish
          3•1 month ago

          Thankfully the talent still exists, so they might move on to other places, do their own thing, or leave game dev altogether.

          Gamedev is an extremely toxic career, and it has been for a very long time. I’m glad people are finally starting to at least somewhat care, if only for the studios themselves.

  • @VenatorOPEnglish
    1•1 month ago

    :(

    UK government responds to Stop Killing Games campaign, There is “no requirement in UK law” preventing publishers from rendering older games unplayable

    https://sh.itjust.works/post/19361285