dpful wrote:I think art should be free. There, I said it.
I don't care how much it costs to make- if it has any real merit, the artist will more enjoy that it's being appreciated. If it has less merit, the artist will want money for it.
I know they have to pay their bills, not with video games, though. I've been looking forward to seeing this game and I appreciate their other games, too. I believe anyone would make a better game for love than for money. I'm sure all great games are made that way to some degree.
I don't think people should attempt to make a living with art. It's self defeating.
There's no logical connection between the two statements
a) Most developers make games because they love them
b) They shouldn't make any money of the games they make.
I'm kinda sorry to be so confrontational, but the above suspiciously sounds like the opinions of the average teenager who has a nebulous concept of "art" which must never be tainted by things such as profit, a stance that usually quickly vanishes as soon as you go out into the real world where mum and dad don't pay for lodgings, food and christmas presents anymore. In a world exclusively populated by teenagers, you wouldn't have any of the games that exist today; the fact that you can make a profit with them keeps the entire videogame economy in existence.
Besides, making games is more like arts and crafts; anybody who has worked on code or artwork or music or anything that goes into a game knows that.
In conclusion, I totally fail to see why taking money for making something that other people have fun with (doesn't sound much like art to me, anyway) should be in any way wrong. Give the people who are good at something money so that they can keep on doing it and everybody will be happy.
/rant over/