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The Video Game economy is brutal. There's a reason why LAN party games have phased out to near-obsolescence, it's apparently no longer worth it for anyone to pu

The Video Game economy is brutal. There's a reason why LAN party games have phased out to near-obsolescence, it's apparently no longer worth it for anyone to put large resources and money into a game that doesn't tether the player with a closed network and platform made specifically to extract as much $$ from him as possible.

yetihehe 4y ago
As someone who planned a game which could be hosted by anyone, I would love to know how to actually make enough money to finish that game. You either need to pour lots of money upfront to make great quality expensive game and hope that your high price doesn't scare people or make a cheap-but-monthly-payment game to be able to continue development during playing.
- qw 4y ago
  Have you considered the "cloud" approach, where players could rent a hosted server?
  - yetihehe 4y ago
    No, that's a great idea! Sidesteps many issues, like having a good specs required for typical server (fairly recent graphics card for physics simulation and lots of storage).