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I'm not sure what you mean, surely all games are produced with an expectation of profit otherwise they would not be made. Discounting small games that people ma
by jiggy2011 13y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, surely all games are produced with an expectation of profit otherwise they would not be made. Discounting small games that people make for gamejams etc.
- chongli 13y agoTake a look at the IndieGaming subreddit (over on Reddit). Every single day I see half a dozen new games pop up. People are making thousands and thousands of new games all the time. Do you honestly believe they all do so with an explicit expectation of profit? No, the basic premise that people do not create without an expectation of profit is false and frankly deeply insulting to humanity. http://www.reddit.com/r/IndieGaming/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IndieGaming/
- jiggy2011 13y agoMost indie games are built with a profit motive to some degree, at the very least they need to cover their costs but I am guessing that most aspire to more than that, so that they can fund their next game.
- cosarara97 13y agoMaybe lots of them but certainly not all. Lots of games are made for fun and if they are later sold or made free depends on how well they turn out to be and what the devs want to do. It doesn't really have to be just small games, you can take Dwarf Fortress and Cave Story as examples of "big" games which are both free.
- eropple 13y agoCalling Dwarf Fortres "free" is mostly accurate but it doesn't really help your argument. Tarn Adams keeps ahold of Dwarf Fortress pretty tightly so that his donation stream doesn't dry up so he can continue working on it.