"Capitalism is killing Games" says Oddworld Creator

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/03/30/capitalism-is-killing-games-says-oddworld-creator

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According to Lanning, the games industry's salvation lies in indie developers, as they are not often restricted creatively by the risk of squandering a huge investment. "The cheaper they can make their product, the more creative opportunity they have," Lanning says. "So you can take more risks the cheaper you are."

Sounds like the same thing people say about cinema, nowadays. Gets annoying after a while.

Lanning's always been like that.  Something may be for-profit, but that doesn't mean it lacks creative vision.  He's just been remastering his old games for the past several years anyways.

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the games industry's salvation lies in indie developers

Like indie developers and the community surrounds it are any better than the AAA studios
- Countless number of funded kickstarters and indiegogo projects dead in the water
- Ask for more money for whatever reason (artist, code monkey, music composers)
- Support from AAA publishers
- Tons of indie shit gets greenlight on Steam
- Pay for "early access" for games which never get updated or any news from
- Prone of feminist and SJW views
- A lot of the games look like something that would have been on Newgrounds back in early 2000

Stalin will save it.

The_Biotic_God wrote:

Stalin will save it.

Lanning is a Trotskyist you bourgeois motherfucker

Che! Guevara! Che Che! Guevara!

What a fucking retard. Capitalism is doing the complete opposite, without capitalism people wouldn't even bother to make games at all. Sure it can cause games to be milked out dry for profit but that's simple supply and demand.

If he wants to prove me wrong then i dare him to give away all his profit from the games he made and only give away the next Odyssey games for free.

Toxicmaniac wrote:

What a fucking retard. Capitalism is doing the complete opposite, without capitalism people wouldn't even bother to make games at all. Sure it can cause games to be milked out dry for profit but that's simple supply and demand.

If he wants to prove me wrong then i dare him to give away all his profit from the games he made and only give away the next Odyssey games for free.

But that's not Communism

Orion wrote:

Toxicmaniac wrote:

What a fucking retard. Capitalism is doing the complete opposite, without capitalism people wouldn't even bother to make games at all. Sure it can cause games to be milked out dry for profit but that's simple supply and demand.

If he wants to prove me wrong then i dare him to give away all his profit from the games he made and only give away the next Odyssey games for free.

But that's not Communism

Communists want a moneyless and classless society with no private property. If he uses his property for profit it becomes private property and as such it's capitalist, the only way he would be consistent with his beliefs is if he freely distributed his games for free.

Toxicmaniac wrote:

Orion wrote:

Toxicmaniac wrote:

What a fucking retard. Capitalism is doing the complete opposite, without capitalism people wouldn't even bother to make games at all. Sure it can cause games to be milked out dry for profit but that's simple supply and demand.

If he wants to prove me wrong then i dare him to give away all his profit from the games he made and only give away the next Odyssey games for free.

But that's not Communism

Communists want a moneyless and classless society with no private property. If he uses his property for profit it becomes private property and as such it's capitalist, the only way he would be consistent with his beliefs is if he freely distributed his games for free.

That's the pussy version, true communism is Stalinism.