inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to PCGaming@lemmy.world · 4 months agoDwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: 'I think they're horrible… greedy, greedy people'www.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down14cross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.worksgamedev@programming.devpcgaming@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1234arrow-down1external-linkDwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: 'I think they're horrible… greedy, greedy people'www.pcgamer.cominclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to PCGaming@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square24fedilinkcross-posted to: games@sh.itjust.worksgamedev@programming.devpcgaming@lemmy.ca
minus-squareNeuromancer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down8·4 months agoWell under communism you wouldn’t have games or at least nothing like we have today. So I’ll take the capitalist approach. The idea of starving just doesn’t appeal to me.
minus-squarechunkystyles@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoHorseshit. You’re saying this in a thread about a game that is literally free and has been the passion project of two brothers for nearly 20 years. You might not see games like GTA or CoD. Might not. But even that’s still possible.
minus-squareNeuromancer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·4 months agoIn twenty years they produced about a million in income. The budget for call of duty was 250 million dollars. Apples and oranges.
minus-squarechunkystyles@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months ago under communism you wouldn’t have games or at least nothing like we have today. My brother in Christ, I was refuting your point.
minus-squareNeuromancer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·3 months agoSo we’d have some half ass game that took twenty years to produce? Well comrade, that refutes everything I said.
Well under communism you wouldn’t have games or at least nothing like we have today. So I’ll take the capitalist approach. The idea of starving just doesn’t appeal to me.
Horseshit.
You’re saying this in a thread about a game that is literally free and has been the passion project of two brothers for nearly 20 years.
You might not see games like GTA or CoD. Might not. But even that’s still possible.
In twenty years they produced about a million in income. The budget for call of duty was 250 million dollars. Apples and oranges.
My brother in Christ, I was refuting your point.
So we’d have some half ass game that took twenty years to produce? Well comrade, that refutes everything I said.