Comment on Guy never bought a game on the Epic Store... Owns 200+

• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m talking about smaller studios but even for big studios, guaranteed income instead of gambling can be more interesting for certain projects.

  The logic is still the same.

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  • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh, so only indie games should be exclusives, then. Not games like Control 2.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The analogy I used makes more sense with indie games because I’m talking about having a job (small scale), but the same logic applies to companies.

      A company like Lockheed Martin will do R&D to come up with new engines and hope to recoup their cost by selling the technology later on, they’ll also sign governmental contracts with guaranteed payments as the project moves forward. You need a mix of both.

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      • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If a company makes bad games, they should go out of business and their developers should work for better companies.

        Remedy doesn’t need to worry about that, because they make good games.

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