hey FREETARDS, how would any vidya game developers make any money if they all gave away their games FOR FREE ??
By providing tech support
Free as in beer, none.
Free as in freedom, maybe donations, and let the community make mods.
You shouldn't need to pay for art.
donations and micro transactions
>>51237216
>art
While the foss community might be lacking in current-gen games, there are plenty of foss game engines. Foss is mutually beneficial for developers.
>>51237216
>video games is art
ask toady
>>51237176
http://www.pathofexile.com/
>>51237176
>implying game developers deserve money for releasing unfinished products
>>51237216
>You shouldn't need to pay for art.
Says who? Is this some sort of law of the Universe I'm unaware of?
The same way everyone else does, soul crushing employment.
Not a freetard but by selling things in the game like skins. The average CS:GO player spends more money on keys then on buying the game it self. League of legends is free and made over 1billion in micro transactions.
>>51237708
Free as in free beer maybe, but not free as in freedom.
>>51237216
you're a flaming retard if you think artist shouldnt be paid to work.
>>51237176
league of legends is free and it's huge
all you buy is skins, also
>>51237223
>>51237176
>dota2
>lol
>tf2
You tell me!
>>51237176
By buying DLC
>>51237176
SOFTWARE needs to adhere to the four essential freedoms to qualify as FOSS, according to Stallman's definition.
DATA, such as but not limited to textures, artwork, and binary data, which is only processed by software, DOES NOT. You can put those behind whatever fucking restrictive license you want.
>>51237176
lol you dummy how much money do you think Riot Games has
>>51237176
who cares, video gaming is dead aside from the occasional indie game that's worth playing
>>51237910
>indie game
>worth playing
Choose one. I bet you liked tumblrtale. In that case,
>>>/tumblr/
And don't fucking come back, cancer.
>>51237859
/thread
>>51237926
>Cave Story
>La-Mulana
I guess if you're a fucking scrub then games like that don't appeal to you.
>>51237176
But they are, look up on kat.cr
>>51237947
Cave story was pretty shit even though lamulana was good.
>>51237216
You sound like the kid I met at camp when I was 11 who said he didn't listen to music because "you are just listening to other people say stuff when you can do it for free"
It was computer camp too so it makes sense you both have similar retardations
set up a system where only dumbasses with money to burn buy the game
oh wait that's this system, just fucking download the game
>>51237176
I'm not even supporting the "only FOSS games, ever" but a lot of games are online games, which require support, servers, bandwidth and so on. They wouldn't work if everything was run only on client computers. So maybe the client side of the game could be FOSS in those cases.
Not sure if that is enough, though.
>>51237176
Exactly how some """""""""people""""""""" moderate anime image boards for free.
>>51237859
So sorta like DOOM did its thing?
Charge for WADs and whatnot?
>>51238322
Or like Quake 2, Quake 3, Quake 4, Doom 3, ...
>>51238322
PRetty much.
Make the entire code be free/libre, etc, put all the assets behind a paywall.
People can mod your game easier, keep it working as time passes by, and fix bugs.
Downside is that you can't really do DRM too well this way, but DRM never works anyway.
>>51237223
If micro transaction isn't a paywall then it's cool. But if you need to pay more than $250 to unlock every piece of content for the respective game, it's fcking disasterous.
>>51237628
>DF is free and one of the best games I've played
>99% of people who game will pass on it because the interface and graphics
>>51238766
I don't mind the interface or graphics, but the game itself is a pain in the ass to figure out how to play and I end up feeling guilty that I'm spending a ton of time learning to play a game instead of something useful and quit.
>>51237766
>artist
>work
>>51238787
if you've ever spent more than 20 hours on a single video game, then it shouldn't be a problem.
>>51238787
I watched another 2 hours of videos and after about 45 minutes with the game I understood the basics. Now whether or not my first fort will survive the first year is a totally different story.
>>51237176
I dunno.
I guess they could use the millions of dollars people are willing to give them.
>>51238766
Also it isn't libre
>>51237176
Video games are not included in the Stallman bible as needing to be free.
Stallman does not disapprove purchasing software so long as it doesn't infringe on your freedoms. It's very simply stated on his webpage.
>>51238917
>that font
>>51238766
>>51238787
I've never played it. What makes it so difficult?
More difficult to learn than another terminal game like nethack?
>>51238787
1: Grow and brew plump helmets constantly, make sure cooking their seeds is forbidden in your kitchen menu. Keep a cat in your food stockpile to kill vermin.
2: Protect your main entrance with a drawbridge that opens inward to become an impassable wall. Put the lever that operates it in your dining hall so when the time comes whatever asshole is sitting around can pull it within 3 seconds. Build a short kill tunnel next to your real entrance filled with weapons traps and maybe a cage trap or two, if you have no worthwhile weapons then stock them with menacing wooden spikes
3: Put decent statues somewhere that every fucking dwarf walks past like a stairwell. Looking at a neat sculpture may provide half of them with the little boost they need to not tear off all their clothes and bite their neighbor's face off after their baby inevitably gets eaten by a cave spider
Your fortress is now protected from starvation, siege and temper tantrums, meaning it is virtually infallible until you fuck up out of sheer ambition or boredom.
>>51238917
Seeing Ouya on that list makes me sad because the concept had so much potential. Now people won't even consider buying another android console.
>>51237836
Do any of these games have their source code up for grabs?
Yeah. That's not free as in freedom.
>>51238966
There's a ridiculous amount of options and no guidance, basically. That and the interface isn't the easiest thing to navigate until you get used to it.
>>51239042
>moving the goalpost
KEK
>>51237176
>implying video game developers should make money
>>51238990
You shouldn't even need to buy an Android console. My phone is more than enough, but it's a pain in the ass to hook a controller to it.
baka
>>51237176
They don't; they get a real job instead.
>>51237176
working for free is like tithing to stallman.
>>51239834
>>>/reddit/
>>51237176
gameplay stops to play a cambells soup ad
>>51237176
Stall man is not against payment. He's against closed source
>>51237628
gratis != free
>>51240065
There's no difference from a business perspective.
>>51238811
People that create stuff have all the right to win more money, they are the ones that give some amusement to your life, and create a new thing to look forward to.
Maybe art it's not a work but it sure is creating, and that it's worth more than being a worker doing a specific job with no imagination, waiting for a paycheck to buy something that other people made.
>>51237176
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>>51237176
Most people don't know what the fuck to do with the source code so they would still buy it on steam
>>51238811
>I have a strict set of arbritrary rules that dictate what work is and everybody should adhere to my wrong opinion
>>51237176
Free as in freedums
>>51237176
>Advertisements
>Donations
>community support
>Micro Transactions
Do I get a prize for stating the obvious to the slow OP?
>>51237176
By running the servers? What kind of dumb question is this?
>>51237554
Some of em clearly are
>buying games
kek
>>51242505
Not that shit you posted, though.
Indie games are all garbage.
>>51239042
Sure it is. Developer has total freedom to chose what happens to his code.
Go be 12 somewhere else
>>51239042
What about doom, then? And haven and hearth?
>>51237216
>video games
>art
>>51237809
LoL is not free as in freedom.
Video games are not a service, they don't run in the cloud, you need to have them installed therefore you need the source code according to Stallman and freetards alike.
>>51239095
He's not moving the goalpost you are just legitimately retarded.
Free software =/= Gratis software
A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms:
The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
So OP's question is legitimate. How would game developers earn money when their game engines can be freely copied multiplied and shared? Especially in today's industry where it takes you millions of dollars to develop your complex game and then someone can just freely take all your effort and modify it and share it.
>>51245288
>moving the goalpost
>being a namefag
KOK
>>51237176
hey TROLL, wouldn't your currently useless life be better spent on something PRODUCTIVE?
There is nothing wrong with free software. But freetards who demand everything must be free are insane.
