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?).
I actually don't know what you are trying to get at? Lar said there is a discussion about governmental funding of the game industry... the fact that you can't or can imagine that won't really change the debate. And believe it or not but there are countries in which computer and video games get financial and cultural aid...
