in response to:
'the games-industry is a huge pie, and Belgium wants a piece of it.'
and other on the same lines;
I can't really imagine Belgium cashing in on a developer like Larian. On an annual budget of 95 billion euro a year, some taxes on the sales of a computergame barely make an impact. And even with taxbreaks (!) I doubt wether a lot more studios or, for that matter, other programming companies will suddenly come to Belgium and make some big bucks. But I don't have any numbers on it, so I could be completely wrong. And with taxbreaks, I really don't think that it will create jobs for hundreds of people (and then even hundreds on a working population of a few million?).
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(they entertain, but the line 'I love my government, because at least they keep me entertained' does not strike me as intelligent)
Lepel: Someone didn't pay alot of attention in his history class

Aha, but what would you think of a person saying that line. As Terry Pratchett said in Small Gods I believe; 'Gods don't like people doing nothing, becasuse people doing nothing might start to think' (or something like that). Personaly, I rather have my government provide good education, safety, healthcare etc etc instead of entertainment. I can entertain myself, and I don't want a situation in which I need my own M16 under my pillow to protect myself.

About art, ok, a computergame can be considered art, no argument from me. But I how many of all the people playing games consider those games as art? It's easy for an artist to consider his work art, and to someone who knows what he is talking about, it can easily be art, but to the masses, where most of the revenue comes from, it is just entertainment (for a small period of time to). Just like with films.
I would say that there are films who shouldn't get taxbreaks (mindnumbing films) and films that should (arthouse films). But which film will become what is quite hard to predict in advance, and who would be the judges... So perhaps (because I like films) it is better that all films(companies) get government support. And then indeed, so should games (or their developers).