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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.
good god. The devs are not baristas dude. Total 1% ideals. Fing Chadosaurus.
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The Fallout Anthology Edition is coming to PC very soon, and is packaged with some very S.P.E.C.I.A.L. bonuses.
It’s an awful downgrade to the last one they did
They included physical disc back then
I would love the classic fallout games on console. Closest I could find was atom rpg, I liked that one a lot
I’m not trying to offend BGS fans because I’m a huge fan of most of their games, but this game is not gonna be good. It’s a reskin of fallout 4 without human npcs. The idea that you’re in a world that was destroyed by nukes but you can nuke people is such a dumb idea.
No one wanted a multiplayer fallout........
This whole game is just a product of laziness. They didn’t get starfield done in time to put it out this year so they threw this game together to have something to show at E3.
We'll just have to see what happens. Bethesda says that 76 is an "experiment" but who is going to be dealing with the errors?
Who will be paying top dollar for an experience that might not fully flesh out until 2 or 3 years from now?
Bethesda is having a hard time explaining this because they themselves are unsure of what they hope we enjoy. Are we getting an amazing game on day one that is stable and refreshing? Or a Rust clone with a Fallout skin that is riddled with MTs for trivial purposes?
Too many questions before launch.
Ive put over 400 hours into Fallout 4 and I cannot wait to put even more into 76.
Most of you guys who are against this game come off as whiny little babies to be honest.
I understand that this is not Fallout 5, this is a spinoff online game thats dope tome because i want to play an online fallout game even if its lacking human npc's or complex quest its still a Fallout game just not a single player game.
the microtransactions will be cosmetics only so there will be no pay to win BS so thats good to know also we dont have to engage other players if we do not want to so for all you who are too scared to play with others chill its ok.
Anyone who says this game is being made out of laziness or its a cash grab are just talking out of their a$$es period.
THIS IS NOT FALLOUT 5. Why would you except a new fallout single player game so soon? Just be happy you will have a new Fallout game to play until 5 comes out.
Maybe I’m in the minority but this is a pass for me. I just have 0 interest in it. Everything I’ve seen and heard so far has put me off. But hey I hope it’s a decent game. I have a few buddies who are jumping in day 1. So I’ll wait and see what it actually is. But so far it’s a no from me dog.
Apparently trying to make a functional game without the help of fan made mods is "scary" as well.