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Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Games@hexbear.netEnglish · 23 days ago

"This non-profit will be the 'voice of the gamers'" - Former Disco Elysium devs break new ground with player- and developer-owned studio structure, and you can get involved right now

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"This non-profit will be the 'voice of the gamers'" - Former Disco Elysium devs break new ground with player- and developer-owned studio structure, and you can get involved right now

www.eurogamer.net

Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Games@hexbear.netEnglish · 23 days ago
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"This non-profit will be the 'voice of the gamers' in an experimental attempt to formalise community decision-making in game development," says Summer Eternal.
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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    Every gamer a member of the board

    • Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      evrart

      • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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        Of course Gamer voices will be heard, Harry. Do you honestly think I would co-opt Union jargon for an elaborate scheme?

        • 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]@hexbear.net
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          Mr. Evrart is helping me find my Visual C++ redistributable installer

        • combat_brandonism [they/them]@hexbear.net
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          GOOD post

        • g_mer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          I can hear him!

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    damn it’s like a shittier version of a multi-stakeholder coop

    since coop isn’t anywhere in there, but there’s a lot of coop language, my conclusion is grift. which, couldn’t happen to a more oppressed class, gamer-gulag

    • Enjoyer_of_Games [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netM
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      The word “co-op” is used on their own site.

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        For all those workers who are not part of the creative co-op of full-time workers, a second co-op is being designed

        this is very naive and not a cooperative. a coop is one member, one vote. you can still give disproportionate ownership to different stakeholders in a multi-stakeholder coop.

        that they call this multiple coops, and that they call the consumer-ownership a “non-profit”, I think this is still clearly a grift. I hope they put out a good game, I’ll probably play it. but I’m not going to buy in

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          What exactly are you looking for here? I don’t feel like involving players any more than they already are in this setup would be a good idea, knowing the average gamer. Wouldn’t imagine this game will sell enough copies for profit sharing to hand out anything significant either.

          • chgxvjh [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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            Wouldn’t imagine this game will sell enough copies for profit sharing to hand out anything significant either.

            If they make a good game despite their weird organizational structure, why not? DE had on the order of magnitude of 100 of millions of dollars in sales. Even fraction of that could translate into a pretty healthy bonus pay at least.

            I see people asking for a spiritual successor of DE all the time, so the game probably doesn’t even have to be all that great to be successful.

            • znonymous [comrade/them, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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              Honestly, all they have to do is get the voice actor for the internal voices, and I would buy anything they release.

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                That man needs to narrate audiobooks. I don’t care what book.

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                  They should do the Quran like the Stanley parable narrator.

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              DE had on the order of magnitude of 100 of millions of dollars in sales.

              Sure, but it also had millions of players. It’d end up paying out like one of those class action settlements where everyone gets like $12. I would hope the actual developers have some kind of profit sharing going on, though.

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                Oh you mean the gamers? They call the gamer org a nonprofit so clearly no profit sharing with gamers intended.

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            I’m looking for the studio to not coopt shit. like either make a multi-stakeholder coop or don’t. this halfway shit is bush league

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              Creating a structure for profit sharing for temp workers is more than a lot of coops do.

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          It just seems like a dorky way to run something akin to a Kickstarter tbh. From people with a known history of making bad contracts this could turn out interesting though.

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    voice of the gamer

    threatful

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      All the women are now dubiously adult booba waifus, all politics have been removed (read: no browns or LGBT people), and all accessibility options have been replaced with text prompts reading “git gud tourist”

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        I’ll take 10

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    scared

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