It’s common for the government to push funds to many industries if they believe there’s a chance of growth, that private investors either won’t give enough for, or will solely benefit from. Meat, cars, farming, all get funding in the USA. Sadly, we don’t get free meat as a result.
Development of the arts is supposed to be for arts that could never stand on their own feet commercially though.
Game publishers shouldn’t ever be getting a cent.
Game developers shouldn’t either unless the game is released for free.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
All the investment in game development right now is going to where labor is cheapest, which I’ll bet does not include the UK. You’ve probably noticed more rising stars in recent years out of South Korea, China, Japan, and some EU territories. The reason a state might want to fund the arts is because that’s how its own culture spreads on the world stage.
Funwayguy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Except countries don’t fund the whole game and certainly not without conditions and criteria.
This also ignores indie devs who often only get their start self funding their project via day jobs. We could have so many more new ideas in niche genres if actually gave two shits about supporting new devs and not some AAA mega corp churning out the same uninspired garbage.