Valve on Piracy

[Kasz216]

JaggedSac said:

Kasz216 said:

 

Also you don't take out loans.  You do what the M&B guys did.  Make a short demo.  What you plan to accomplish.  Then "sell" your idea to try and get enough money to make it.

If you don't... well you don't.  Your idea wasn't good enough.

So you have to have money up front to pay employees to create a demo.  Unless they are working for free on the hopes of getting a pay check.  In which case, not many highly skilled people would take that job.  Not as a primary one in any case.

You are trying to apply small cases of this working on a broad economic system.  Not saying this would never work, as that is clearly not the case, but that it would not work on a massive scale.

Videogames aren't meant to work on a massive scale.

They're games... take a loot at a game like mount and blade.  It's HUGE yet it wasn't done with a giant dev team.

As for other computer applications... they will work that way because they are needed.  For example companies currently create their own propirtary invetory programs.