So many things encouraging the sailing recently. Marvel just canned Marvel Unlimited to merge it into WEBTOON so they have even more insane power. It’s crazy.

Also, appreciate the non AI flag.

This is great progress. Curious to see how the Supreme Court eventually rules

All of the above? ✅

I dunno, the rise and fall and extreme mismanagement of a Seinfeld theme park would make for some great background documentaries for while I work…

“Hi my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair…”

Part of the difference is Rowling still holds so much cultural weight (somehow). So many people still know and watch and purchase Harry Potter stuff. Seinfeld only really holds that weight amongst older conservatives. He’s only popular amongst the people perpetuating the hate. Rowling’s stuff is popular amongst those who should know better.

I do agree we should boycott more (I personally do boycott a fair bit), but comparing the current impact of Rowling to the current impact of Seinfeld is crazy.

Maybe a few rulings from a judge that will be ignored

I think they mean if the advertised product. So like if Kleenex buys the ad space they’ll let kleenex know they’re boycotting them and why, not Microsoft.

They’d likely license as a percentage of revenue, not a specific dollar amount, which would make it more available to every studio and they’d theoretically make more money from the added ad revenue.

Until they license this out to every triple a studio and they all do it. Now I’m off to play more Tiny Terraces

But they didn’t even have to shutter many of the studios. Many of them were profitable. Microsoft just didn’t want the competition and they decided the studios weren’t obscenely profitable

And just to extend, this doesn’t just apply to AAA games or anything. Like look how much people fell in love with and lovingly memed the placeholder art in “Slay the Spire II”. Or how much players are still captivated by the story and feel of “What Remains of Edith Finch”.

There’s plenty of examples of solo devs doing it too, just not as shiny. “Balatro”, “Axiom Verge”, “Return of the Obra Dinn”, “Stardew Valley”… I could go on. People like lovingly crafted things of any size

Way to not read their comment and keyboard warrior from another country

It’s never that .txt file that says where it was originally uploaded

A lot of that quick and dirty space is in indie dev hands now and they’re doing wonderful things. Things like Window Wars or Inscryption or the recent very successful tactical cat breeding game Mewgenics

Edit: author of Mewgenics is shit who accepts shitty people. Leaving due to all the below comments but advise skipping the game.