cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/18457741

I realize that, after all this time, I have never payed for my all-time favorite games I grew up playing (Fallout 3 & Skyrim). I can pay for it, but I really do not want to pay the money to the Bethesda’s marketing team, CEO, and whoever bullshit middle man who wants a cut of that. I want to give directly to the team that made the damn game, the artists, the sound designers, the voice actors, the programmers. If there was a way to do that, i’d be more happily inclined to spend my money on a decade year old game.

Just thinking

What are your ideas on how this could actually be implemented?

  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    In Germany, it’s illegal to donate without the person receiving doesn’t have a company, or a non-profit. So it quickly becomes difficult in some parts of the world.

    The other problem is weird moderation. A few months ago I made a post on the Linux Mint forum to ask the developers to implement the cinnamon panel to also auto-expand (so it looks more like a dock when the user wants it that way). I simply mentioned that if there’s an official bounty website for mint, that I’d gladly contribute there. I almost got banned over there just for asking that. So since then, I don’t ask anymore, and I donate less. I don’t wanna get in trouble.

    • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I almost got banned over there just for asking that

      Huh. Why, what was the reasoning there?

        • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Weirdness. Anyway, kudos for being one of the few people actively supporting FOSS monetarily!

    • shikogo@pawb.social
      2·
      3 months ago

      Can you elaborate on the Germany part? I am from Germany and I tried to look this up and found nothing. The main thing I found was:

      Die Rechtslage in Deutschland – Ist Spenden sammeln für private Zwecke erlaubt?

      In Deutschland ist das Crowdfunding für private Zwecke erlaubt. Es gibt keinerlei gesetzliche Einschränkungen – du brauchst dir also keine Gedanken zu machen, ob du zuerst einen Verein gründen musst oder einen Gemeinnützigkeitsnachweis benötigst, um online Spenden zu sammeln.

      From GoFundMe

      So it sounds like you can receive private donations for anything no problem. Obviously it’s taxable but that should be obvious, and true in most places.

      • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        That was on a mastodon discussion a few days ago, where it was said that in germany you need a legal entity to receive the money, and not as an individual. And that has complexities of its own. In the US, you can receive money as donation without a problem, as long as you pay your taxes on them, for anything above $400 per year or so.