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?

  • shikogo@pawb.social
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    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.