| Sullla said: Wow, those were REALLY interesting reads, especially the second one. As others have said, almost scarily prescient for the current market. *Lots of awesome*In short, I agree with NJ5 that we're reaching a breaking point. You can only keep consolidating into larger and larger publishing firms for so long. The next step would be getting national governments to subsidize development costs, and that simply will not happen. |
Actually, that already is happening. I've seen articles featuring UK developers complaining about how Canadian developers are being subsidized.
Game development subsidies make about as much sense as movie subsidies, from the point of view of the government subsidizing. It provides high-quality jobs with good pay, along with economic and cultural side benefits. Just the other night I was wondering why there were so many Canadian bands in Shaun White Snowboarding, then I remembered that it was made in Montreal.
As the gaming industry continues to grow and continues to require more labour and investment, you can expect governments to compete for those rich jobs just like they compete for movie jobs, auto jobs, and others.
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