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?

  • Feydaikin@beehaw.org
    3·
    3 months ago

    If they took the first step and worked towards, or remained, independent and selfpublished, that would make it a bit easier.

    But Bethesda, Obsidian, InXile and even Blizzard couldn’t sell their asses to Microsoft fast enough once the offer was on the table.

    I get you want to support the Devs, but they kinda made their choice. They had independence, some quite successfully, but they sold it.

    Maybe it’s time to look for new studios to support and help up to contest with the old buggers?