Comment on Guy never bought a game on the Epic Store... Owns 200+
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 week agoOh, so only indie games should be exclusives, then. Not games like Control 2.
Comment on Guy never bought a game on the Epic Store... Owns 200+
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 week agoOh, so only indie games should be exclusives, then. Not games like Control 2.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 week 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.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 week 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.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That’s the thing though, you can make an excellent game and never recoup your cost just because you didn’t get the luck of the draw.
Do you know how many games released on Steam this year? 18k. How many did you hear about? How many were successful? How many were good but didn’t get the coverage they needed? Hell, sometimes you have indie games that will suddenly become successful years down the road. It’s. Just. Gambling.
Even for a well established company, sometimes one in the hand is worth two in the bush.
We see big studios that made successful games going bankrupt every year, don’t you think a studio like that would have loved to have an income guarantee so they could finish their next project instead of closing their doors?
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 week ago
If they want to be guaranteed to be able to operate, they should join the communist movement. Monopolistic capitalist business practices aren’t the way to go. If we’re having a capitalist market, it had better be a free market, which is to say one with sufficient consumer protections so that customers can make free choices about who to give their money to for a certain product.