Avoiding publishers is one way to deal with it. Crowdfunded gaming has grown, but it also hit certain ceiling. Companies like inXile, Obsidian and Compulsion G

Avoiding publishers is one way to deal with it. Crowdfunded gaming has grown, but it also hit certain ceiling. Companies like inXile, Obsidian and Compulsion Games were using crowdfunding, but got swallowed by MS apparently because they couldn't sustain projects of the size they wanted to, using just crowdfunded money. It's a problem really.