Even if the game is made by Evil Empire Ubisoft is still getting paid. We get the industry we support, but you do as you see fit.
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Dude, youâre honestly being weird man. Iâm a gamer and trying to be a streamer, not some social justice warrior on some weird crusade.
Why the hell should a game publisher not be paid for a game they publish?
Okay, so if we all boycott Ubisoft for some strange reason I donât even comprehend nor rly care to comprehend to begin with, then they go bankrupt and everyone working for them gets fired and this third-party game would potentially not even get published and all those third-party companies also go bankrupt and all those ppl also get fired and discouraged from even trying to keep developing games and we donât even get to play those games. Huge win.
I play games based on the merits of the games, not based on anything else. Again, Iâm just a gamer trying to have fun.
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Thatâs alright, youâre free to do that.
Iâm offering as light an opposition as I can here, what has ever been weird about being conscientious about your choices in spending your money, time, effort and attention?
I have always had certain principles on that front and from time to time I hope to nudge one or two people along the way.
Evil empire successfully made and launched a game all on their own, no reason they need to be fired and fail out of the industry. They were simply hired by Ubisoft to make a prince of Persia IP game to enrich Ubisoft, not themselves. They could have just as easily tried to make something of their own again.
Yes, that might have been a riskier endeavor. This way they get paid up front and if they fail it wont really affect them as much as it would had they stood on their own, at the same time theyâre also not getting the rewards of success. This means that at the end of this contract theyâre essentially back at 0. They will need another contract from a big publisher to pay them up front to continue working and again find themselves back at 0 by the end, never getting anywhere other than hopefully a perpetual existence as a dev studio for hire.
Now I donât know what their financial situation really looks like, maybe the dead cells money all went to paying back loans or something and they had no choice but to go the mercenary route.
This is partly why I do not like big publishers eating up small previously indie devs and would every time rather spend my money with actually independent developers. So that they can stay independent and keep making new interesting games and establishing new interesting IPs that they own themselves. I try my best to not feed the huge media corporations and their quest to dominate and control all entertainment.
We get the kind of industry we support.
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no, Dead Cells was made and published by Motion Twin. Evil Empire was set up specifically by Motion Twin employees as a contractor company to work for Motion Twin on Dead Cells DLC. So I imagine all they got was the payment for the work they got contracted to do. So if anything, itâs a good thing they got another contract cuz otherwise they wouldâve closed down most probably.
All that being said, like i said, I truly donât care at all about who makes what game and what theyâve done or not done. I just care about playing games and I support games I like playing regardless of who makes them or how (as long as it does not involve some insane injustice like slavery, for example, lol).
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Anyway, today I replaced my old 900p D-Sub monitor with a Full HD one from the same brand and oh my goodness, itâs so frigging good! Iâm not coming back to 900p ever again! 
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yo, stalker 2 is rly rly good so far, some bugs and some optimization issues, but itâs awesome otherwise so far
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