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[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

How are you this naive? You know someone has to pay the developers a salary right? How would corporations pay them if nobody bought the game and instead pirated?

[–] parlaptie 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah you gotta support the corporations financially so the game can be successful and they can go on to lay off all their developers anyway.

Remember Tango Studios?

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

They pay out of initial capital investment and leveraging.

[–] dch82@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

~~They're paid a salary as the game development goes on?~~

EDIT: I was confused