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Once a developer makes their money back, the game should go public domain. Nintendo would still be able to make tons of Zelda games, it's just that there would
by jrs99 13y ago
Once a developer makes their money back, the game should go public domain.
Nintendo would still be able to make tons of Zelda games, it's just that there would be good competition with several hundred other studios making Zelda games. They would probably even do a better job than Nintendo and make the top-selling Zelda games.
- dllthomas 13y ago"Once a developer makes their money back, the game should go public domain." This is reasonable as a design goal, if you're taking into account risk (I make 10 games, only one meets any success - is the cost of development the money invested only in the one game or also in the other attempts that - for whatever reason - didn't catch on?). I'm leery of it as a hard and fast rule, because it is way to hard to say what costs actually are (/ should be).