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I wonder why EA, Blizzard or the likes hasn't set up a site where you can vote on idea's for games like Lego Ideas has done for making lego sets. That's basical
by lcw 10y ago
I wonder why EA, Blizzard or the likes hasn't set up a site where you can vote on idea's for games like Lego Ideas has done for making lego sets. That's basically what's happening here except people are putting their money where their mouth is. It's like crowd sourcing idea, and they could probably make more desirable games. That said the companies would charge a premium and know they would get it.
- Impossible 10y agoSquare-Enix runs a site like this where indie game developers can post games and if they are voted up they help with publishing and crowdfunding (https://collective.square-enix.com https://collective.square-enix.com). Not exactly what you're suggesting but it has some similarities.
- chadgeidel 10y agoProbably because of intellectual property reasons. If someone suggests an idea it requires a lot of legal wrangling to get the rights to produce it. Once you start going down that road, then you have to justify budgets, ROI, compensation, etc. Additionally, if any game is made that even remotely resembles any part of the proposal, that opens up the potential for a lawsuit. It's basically the same reason that authors won't read your unpublished book and screenwriters won't read your unpublished screenplay.
- chii 10y agoEA could've simply make you agree to sign over all rights prior to adding/voting for said idea. The real problem with such a system is really just the vast majority of ideas are crap. But even the good ideas are difficult to execute - i m sure they aren't low on ideas, but execution prowess.
- nemothekid 10y agoSince you mentioned EA and Blizzard, I assume you are talking about AAA games (as there are plenty of india games on Kickstarter). Those games have budgets into the hundreds of millions of dollars, and I'd imagine that kind of money would be very difficult to crowdfund.
- pandaman 10y agoThey do focus groups instead. When you are spending your money on the game you can as well try to check against a representative sample of your target audience instead of random people brigading some on-line polls.
- lifeformed 10y agoThe ideas aren't the hard part. I'm sure their designers have no shortage of ideas that would be highly popular if they were to execute them well.