cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/18457741

I realize that, after all this time, I have never payed for my all-time favorite games I grew up playing (Fallout 3 & Skyrim). I can pay for it, but I really do not want to pay the money to the Bethesda’s marketing team, CEO, and whoever bullshit middle man who wants a cut of that. I want to give directly to the team that made the damn game, the artists, the sound designers, the voice actors, the programmers. If there was a way to do that, i’d be more happily inclined to spend my money on a decade year old game.

Just thinking

What are your ideas on how this could actually be implemented?

  • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    the distinction between big and small companies is artificial , a big company can still have a small product with low profit margins, and both big and small companies can be managed by the same mutual funds and pension funds (vanguard , blackrock, fidelity etc).

      • Bruce Perens K6BP@mastodon.radio
        2·
        1 year ago

        @wiki_me @vk6flab In response to your comment, I made these changes to my draft:

        2.5 YOU are:
        A) The legal entity exercising RESTRICTED RIGHTS under these terms.
        B) any other legal entities in which the entity of part A holds
        5% ownership or greater or equivalent control without ownership
        C) Any legal entity with 5% or more ownership in the entity of part A
        or equivalent control without ownership.

        (continued)

        • Bruce Perens K6BP@mastodon.radio
          2·
          1 year ago

          @wiki_me @vk6flab

          Where the above definition contains multiple legal entities, all are
          subject to these terms, including the sections regarding termination.
          [This is to avoid the situation in which a company creates a legal entity
          specifically for the purpose of entering into these terms while insulating
          the rest of the company from their effect.]

          YOUR is the possessive or adjective form of YOU.

          (continued)

          • Bruce Perens K6BP@mastodon.radio
            2·
            1 year ago

            @wiki_me @vk6flab

            …

            [3.2] a) The end-user revenue through all legal entities defined as YOU
            exceeds USD$5 Million per YEAR. …

            This has not yet been subject to legal review, and of course may change when it does.

            Thanks

            Bruce

            • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              You realize that the owner could be a truck driver for texas? that’s what mutual funds and pension funds do, they manage assets.

              and taking a fixed price is like having a grocery store where all the products have the same price, businesses do a cost benefit analysis (estimating stuff like costs and expected income), having a single price does not make sense.