StarCraft II will be released on July 27, 2010. After years of speculation, discussion, screenshots, demos, beta testing, and probably hundreds of online and print articles on the game, Gamertell wonders if it'll be worth it.
Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra recently suggested an interesting concept that has sparked a debate among gamers - the idea of being able to tip developers after completing a game.
If I had a 100% way to be sure that this money would go to a fund or a reserve dedicated only to the guys who develop the games, be them designers, artists, programmers and so on, I could think about it.
But we all know that this 'tip' would only end up in a publisher's CEO pocket to buy a new yacht, so, no, I ain't tipping anyone anytime soon on this industry
Exactly these companies were raising money for good causes and gamers were donation and come to find out they are keeping a good chunk of be pie
Yeah tip your developer, 5% proceeds go to developer, 95% to the publisher or whoever. Isn't tipping for staff not making minimum wage? How about they just pay their developers properly and like you know, give them fair bonuses? Too much to ask from Blizzard these days, Kotick saw to that and is now laughing all the way to the bank.
It's the t**ts at the top looking at ways to cut devs wages and get the players to tip them like waiting staff, and I'll guarantee a percentage is skimmed and kept by Activision Blizzard. This is 100% for shareholder and CEO playouts.
I have to agree with this. On the surface tipping devs sounds like a great idea, but in the end it leads to pay cuts and subsidization of pay. Tips then become an expectation or the devs “can’t make a living.” Lastly, especially in the US, tip culture has gotten out of control, and it serves as an excuse not to properly pay employees. Sounds good but doesn’t end well.
@ Popsicle
I think your right on the nose with how much tipping has become rampant. Instead of it being a relationship directly between the customer and the developer or employee, it now has a middle man ingrained in the system. DoorDash is one example. It ends up becoming a metric where the company can measure 'just how much more money you are willing to part with' before raising the price on the main product.
Uh so they’re trying triple dip or more we buy the game that they’re already withholding/cutting content for dlc we was told that season pass would help the developers thrive we felt for it.
Now on top of all that plus their sales bonus they want tips enough is enough whatever happens to you create/built a good game get a bonus for sales milestones you care about your game and community we reward you with more sales not for doing 3/4 of a game then save the other 1/4 for dlc and passes after
Very well said. If it was possible to send the money to either the developer or some organization for the betterment of gaming, sure. But we all know that will not be the case.
No, it would go to those on the top. They will still fire developers, have a bunch of microtransactions, raise prices of games and so on.
So they eventually don't pay their workers and depend on our tips to pay them like the case with waiters!
That kind of practice is only normal in the states, as far as I know anyway, what a backwards system
Ireland is literally the first stop across the pond and we don't have a tipping culture. The only establishments here that would expect a tip are the tourist haunts that Americans visit. Other than that, you might tip in a restaurant as a sign of gratitude for great service and waiting staff would be paid a full wage anyway.
Is this a joke? How about the big wigs giving up some of their pay for their hard working developers.
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It already has. If you have played the beta from start to finish and have been involved with the SC community, which I'm sure you haven't, in helping Blizzard make improvements on the game then you'd known that it already has. The game has come a long way since the beta started and the majority is satisfied with it.
I was in the beta for the last 2 months and it blew me away!
Depends on how hyped up each individual player is. It probably will, but we'll see what happens over the next week.
I'll probably enjoy the hell out of it.
From what I've played in the beta, not even close. They essentially just released the exact same game with a few minor tweaks and slightly updated graphics. Gameplay and units are pretty much identical and the feel of the game is exactly the same.
That being said, most Blizzard fans are idiots and will worship anything that company releases without being able to judge the game for what it actually is (I think they must have a missing gene or something) so I'm sure they'll all love it. I'm very disappointed by it, but judging by the million and a half first person shooters out there, and the fact that Uncharted 2 won game of the year last year from a million sites even though that, too, is just a linear 8 hour shooter just like every other game out there, people seem to want to play the same thing over and over and don't care about innovation. So I guess they're just giving fans what they want, more of the same thing they've been playing for the last 12 years. But not me, Blizzard. Not me. Dawn of War 2 has spoiled me for innovation in the sci-fi RTS genre, and I can't go back in time and play this outdated piece of crap, and I certainly can't bring myself to buy it three times either. They've single-handedly undone every bit of innovation that other companies have brought in the last 12 years by releasing the same game, and it will sell 10 million more copies than any other RTS which is just a damn shame.