https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/former-blizzard-president-suggests-you-should-be-able-to-leave-a-dollar10-or-dollar20-tip-for-the-devs-because-some-games-are-that-special/
How is it different from a "pressure to tip" scenario? The implication here is that, somehow, the increase to $70 for games still isn't enough to cover a pay increase for devs, therefore you should tip them to help them out. THATS EXACTLY WHAT PRESSURE TO TIP IS YOU FOOL
Also most games now have micro transactions on top of being $70. It's still not enough to pay devs? And I'm supposed to trust that the tips will go to the devs instead of some corporate ghouls?
itch.io should implement tipping, TBH, because sometimes those free/$1/$2/$5 games really do deserve a $10 tip, you just don't realize it until after you've played. The difference being that you know you're tipping a tiny team, usually only one person, almost directly, instead of an amorphous husk that just laid off 20 employees after the game.
Oh, for sure. I'm not against tipping in general. I used a lot of Cities:Skylines mods and I always send a tip to the creators of my favorite assets and mods.
Is that not what skins already are? Like, you aren't getting 1/3 of a full game's value from a Snoop Dogg skin.
I will gladly pirate any shitty game this fucker has had his grubby hands on in developing. Fuck this ghoul.
Or I would if Blizzard's catalog didn't suck ass.
And if this is a thinly veiled attempt at suggesting actual devs, the people who make your shovelware games, should get paid more, here's a novel idea: just pay them more!
Edit: This motherfucking ghoul is begging for tips. I can't find his net worth but here is the guy he replaced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Kotick (sorry for the ciapedia link). This last guy was making a cool fucking 30 million a year when he stepped down. We can mostly just fucking assume that Ybarra was making around the same. This motherfucker make approx 180 million in the time he worked at Bliz and is saying we should pay their god damn employees? Again fuck this guy.
Edit 2: Actual developers should get paid. Actual decent human developers. I double dipped Hollow Knight and also gifted copies to 3-4 friends because I think the game is a masterclass in design and more people should play it. Team Cherry deserves all the money they get from sales. I will also tell anyone and everyone to pick up Dyson Sphere Program. It's costs $20 and is a game made by just 5 comrades in China. It's such a passion project to them but also it's another game I wold call a masterclass in it's respective genre. The games feels finished but they are still actively working on it. I could go on about it and have so I won't bloviate more on it. If you like factory style games and space stuff and are on the fence about it, just pick it up. It's so damn good.
More than paying extra for these, we should pay less for games without this quality standard.
Sending a $20 bill to the CEO of Target bc my shelves are just that special.
Bring down the price per unit and stop SA'ing your staff and maybe I'd have a reason to even reinstall bnet never fuckin mind buying or installing your shit
