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Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This really does not sound healthy. The game is released, for a certain amount of money. If people don't like what they get for their money, they simply should not buy it.

But by now gamers have been so trained to expect to endless content treadmills and all their ilk like mtx and battle passes that publishers/developers get egged on if they don't work on their game 24/7 and forever.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You highlight another point in the unspoken contract:

"After you buy the game, you can play it for as long as you own it with $0 additional dollars spent. At any point in the future you're welcome to sell your copy of the game for whatever someone will pay you for it. That new buyer will be able to play the game forever paying $0 additional dollars."

That's gone too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which is what digital downloads was actually all about.

Killing the second hand market in the belief and hope that those people buying the used copy for 5 bucks, will come to the dev/pub directly and spend the 60 bucks on it brand new.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Which is why some degree of chaotic lawlessness (as in pirate disks being sold near subway entrances) is good for humanity and good for the market.

And there's no inherent moral value in intellectual property or copyright, so only whether it's ultimately better or worse to have it is important.