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| Responses by skip 02/06/2014, 4:03pm PST | ||||
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From the guy that made Gone home
This is true across creative industries. I believe it's important that Cormac McCarthy kept getting paid for Blood Meridian which was published in 1985 so that he could be able to create The Road which was published in 2006-and so that a number of authors who weren't as successful, who you might not have heard of, who received advances from the same publisher that made money from Blood Meridian and the rest of McCarthy's books, could eat and pay rent while they finished writing their own novels that may or may not be successful-- because who knows? He wrote 4 books in between, but whatever. Royalties help fund the losers, sure. His point about paying for music is all well and good but let's be real. This man has likely pirated music in the past and I doubt he sleeps any worse at night for that. This is why the comparison to labor such as plumbing is asinine: plumbing is an individual trade for an individual client, and the work is (ideally) frequent and low risk with low ongoing investment (you personally buy your tools and truck and do your training and get licensed, then advertise yourself and look for work, and then you get paid on a per-job basis every day you do that reliable, verifiable job for a single client who has contracted you. Maintenance of tools and truck and re-up of advertising and license over time are ongoing-- but you don't invest millions of dollars into a new plumbing project then hope that enough people will decide to pay for it after the fact of its completion as possible, then have to invest an enormous amount of money and time into your next plumbing project and hope enough people show up and pay for THAT one to make your money back so that you can afford to ever plumb again... etc. Doesn't this sorta undermine his point? This is an indie studio so they'll get a good chunk of the profits. If you can't or won't make any profitable games in 20 years, doesn't the blame rest squarely on the studio? Why not just put it out if its misery then? At that point the royalties are more like unemployment checks. If that's your argument sure, but don't act like plumbing is a sure bet as a job either. From the Frozen Synapse guy. When something becomes public domain, anyone with any agenda can repurpose it. I would feel concerned if, in my lifetime, Frozen Synapse was turned into something used to promote ideals that don’t reflect our own In the future somebody could through in a screen saying that the red blips are Nazis and the other are Jews. Of course it doesn't matter since in 20 years nobody will be playing this game anyway. - The workman should, in a lot of cases, be able to earn promotion or increased salary simply by doing his job well over a long period So this guy has spent the past few years under a rock, not noticing all the reports about flattening wages for most blue-collar Americans? They are also probably jackasses to the plumbers who come to their home. "Psh, Do the slovenly and uncreative work of figuring out why my pipes are leaking, which I'm too good for, you know. I'm going to be working on the next indie masterpiece." |
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