If you and a friend shared the same car, you stole a car from the manufacturer. /s
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That's nothing, someone hosted an unauthorised Smash Bros tournament and everyone at Nintendo died
everyone at Nintendo died
Sounds like a net gain for the gaming community.
But then theres no one left to sue us right?! Pirate all the (nitendo) things!!!!!
Also it's not like the workers typically get the long tail of profits. Most labor is only paid a salary, and the "owners" get to keep profiting. Workers should be entitled to the profits of their labor.
So kinda like royalties
I would be a bit careful with this.
- It is incredibly hard to define each worker's contribution to any particular profit.
- It means that the worker's compensation depends on the overall success of the product which may have little to do with their work (for example bad management tanking a project or it getting cancelled before release).
- Accounting can move profits around in a lot of cases. Look at how every movie makes no money.
In many ways having it be a transaction (work x hours get paid x dollars) is nice. I means that the employee knows exactly what they are getting upfront.
You could also have salaries 🤷
The problem to solve is a handful of people who aren't really doing much work get most of the profits. There may be other solutions.
I don't know if I really buy "not doing much of the work". Middle management maybe but to own and run a company is serious work. Especially starting a company is huge risk. So if you take the risk you get a lot of the reward.
IMHO ways to help even this out are:
- Higher taxes on the wealthy. Keep that progressive tax curve going (and not regressing). I think these people do deserve to be rewarded, but up to a point. Honestly I think the tax rate should approach 100% as you approach the very highest percentile of income.
- Universal basic income. Make it so that people don't need to work. They get to choose to work when the compensation is worth it to them. This makes explotation much harder and makes it much easier for people to negotiate fair compensation (whether that is salary, profit sharing, a mix or something else).
I would also like to see some way to change the natural goal of a company from "make as much money as possible" to "bring as much value to people as possible", but I think these two things would be a good start.
Ironically that might boost productivity. And would lead to something closer to meritocracy
How would you quantify ongoing projects where workers come and go and each of their specific contribution might not be easy to measure? Do they all also assume financial responsibility for any failures or lawsuits?
How would you quantify ongoing projects where workers come and go and each of their specific contribution might not be easy to measure?
Probably some sort of collective ownership, profit sharing, with negotiation and consensus building. Other people more well read than me have spent a lot of time thinking about this. My starting position is that the standard capitalist model of "I pay you $10 to make a widget, and I sell it for $1000 and keep all the profits" is not okay.
Do they all also assume financial responsibility for any failures or lawsuits?
Do the owners assume financial responsibility now? I think that's what LLCs and other corporate structures are for- to shield individuals from liability and responsibility.
But then what incentive would keep the owners owning everything?
Also, keeping and playing your old games you paid for is theft.
If that upsets you, kids, tell your dad to make a game worth paying money for in 2025, or to make his 1995 game easily accessible at an appropriate price.
Best i can do is an ai texture flip and a “remastered” version for 40€
I don't mind remasters per se. Diablo 2 Resurrected was absolutely awesome, and they didn't really change that much. Just modernised the graphics and made som some qol adjustments.
They killed LAN after beta and made it always-online. Still, a better rework than many others.
I think LAN is still dead but offline single player works fine.
i had forgotten about the d2 remake. This reminds me why I never got it.
D2R is decent, but there is also warcraft 3 reforged, which is an abomination (there is now a startcraft 2 mod that is better than reforged)
I’m glad you enjoyed it. They are not for me usually, but it’s neither here nor there
Or accessible at all!
This is so sad, Andrew Wilson - lay off 400 employees :(
I'm bringing home the rain. Theres no supper on the table. The babies crying in the cradle.
I just wanted to see my boy Joseph Kucan in his prime again. I didn't mean to destroy your family!!!!
You did not mean to, but did you care?
Given that this EA guy clearly is against the Brotherhood or Nod, I wouldn't care.