Originally Posted by Creslin321
Just imagine this scenario...

Jim spends 3 years working and living on little money to create his dream game, with the hopes that he will be able to support himself one day. He finally releases his game, selling it for $10 on his site.

But what happens is that one person buys the game, and then posts it on a popular site where everyone else downloads it for free. Everyone is playing Jim's game, but Jim is still destitute...despite having worked so hard to make his game.

So...I have to ask, has something wrong happened here? And if so, who is at fault? I think it should be fairly obvious, that it's not Jim.


Your ending is unrealistic. Let me handle this:
Let's consider 2 scenarios: a) Jim made a crappy game - then people are not playing but merely become convinced it's really bad and abandon it. Jim gets himself into something else than making games which he is (hopefully) better at.
b) Jim made a good game - everybody is playing it and (the better the game is the more) people want to express their gratitude and/or convince him to make more good games buy the game/contribute their money in some other way to Jim's work.

I'm not saying this scenario is working in 100% cases. But (at last) we can see the idea and strive for it. Just remind yourself about people buying several copies of D:OS wanting to give Larian more money for future projects.


Originally Posted by LordCrash
Physical discs on PC are just dead. DEAD. Sooner or later they will go the way of the dodo bird. The sooner you accept that the better. Deal with it or do something else with your leisure time.

The funny thing is it's been said exactly the same about paper books a while ago. wink I must admit e-books were never anywhere near as popular as digital releases are, yet still some gamers buy the boxes, ain't they? And what was all that fuss about with D:OS steam-free discs when we have GoG?

Edit: Haha @Stargazer you handled it quicker thn I did, and better worded to that laugh

Last edited by Moonstrider; 16/07/14 10:24 PM.
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