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.
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.