While Baldur’s Gate 3 is being widely celebrated by fans and developers alike, some are panicking that this could set new expectations from fans. Good.
While Baldur’s Gate 3 is being widely celebrated by fans and developers alike, some are panicking that this could set new expectations from fans. Good.
Without capitalism Tetris would have remained an obscure piece of shareware probably vaguely known outside of ex-soviet nations. It’s only the desire to monitise the IP that saw it on every platform under the sun and packaged with every Gameboy.
Yeah but some companies straight up lied and/or distributed illegally without a license and made millions, which also wasn’t cool or fair to the creator. So “capitalism” isn’t exactly the hero here either.
Everyone at the top ultimately fought over and profited from the work of a professor at a university who saw nothing. And no one in the Soviet Inion, the US, or any other country sought to make that right. 
Yeah, the creator didn’t profit at the time because of communism and their belief that his creation belonged to the state. If he had been in a capitalist country at the time he could have copyrighted his game asap and exploited it for profit himself.
Yes because as we all know, creators are protected in the US and always profit from their own works more than companies attempting to exploit them. Come on man. This is so naive there is no way you actually believe this. It wasn’t made in the US and our businesses still found a way to exploit it through crimes and invalid licenses. Yes, actual illegal activity.
It’s also purely conjecture.
At the very least a smart creator in the US can go to a solicitor and make sure he isn’t being mugged off before they sign a deal, you didn’t have that that with the Soviet Government.
Yes lots of creators have been screwed by the people that worked for, notably in the comics field. But a lot of the time it’s because they signed a contract having no inkling how big the work would be.
Why does tricking people somehow seem better to you? You are way too ardent a defender of intentional, greedy bad actors.
I don’t believe some people were tricked but we’re a victim of their own success. Take Alan Moore and Watchman for example. He signed the deal that he would get the rights to the book back once it went out of print as that’s how the industry model worked at the time. The book was so popular that it’s stayed in print for the last 40 odd years, so the rights didn’t revert. Maybe DC should have renegotiated things in light of that, but I see that he and they went into the deal on good faith based on industry realities at the time.
This is too much man. I’m sorry. The lengths you’re going to defend this behavior is bonkers. Sure, let’s just discount decades of countless black musicians being absolutely fucked by record labels “because it was in the contract” and every single person along the way was breaking off a piece for themselves at their expense. Yeah, Alan Moore has this one nuanced thing, that totally invalidates the countless creatives who have been and will continue to be fucked by deep-pocketed companies whose mission is to claw every cent possible from creators even though they didn’t make shit.