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There should be a way to give directly to the developers (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Go find some of the member’s personal projects and support them. One of the creature designers recently started a Kickstarter for a comic book

Lots of the original teams for those games have moved on

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

That's a great idea. And you get more content!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

There should be an app or something for this..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Almost all the github accounts have a "buy me a coffee" button.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What would Pirate Jesus do? Buy them a coffee 🙏

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Code comes from Cappuccino, so sayeth the messiah

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

A programmer is a device for turning caffeine into code (to borrow a math joke).

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago

Search the credits on linkedin and the like, I'm sure you'd be able to find some

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is what buying from coop developers is like. You know that everyone involved has agreed that everyone else is essential to the creation of the game and that everyone receives a cut in one way or another.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Could you link/provide a list of coop dev groups? I'd love to help support them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know the Dead Cells guys, Motion Twin, are set up as a coop. Not sure about any other major team, and they've been pretty open about it only being feasible because they are a small studio.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Dead Cells team is coop? That's awesome, I'll definitely pay them when I am able to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

If there was a way to do that, i’d be more happily inclined to spend my money on a decade year old game.

True. And this falls squarely on their responsibility. If they set up a Patreon or Kofi something, for example, and make it known, then we can support them directly.

Or they could just publish the information required to do a cash mail / wire transfer. But I don't know how the fees would work for that with small donations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

This is the one valid use of that "tip screen" what's his name proposed the other day.