| IcaroRibeiro said: Isn't this the essence of capitalism? The shareholders who invested in gaming companies who never put a hand on a game code are profiting much more from games than the dev teams as well |
For the big games sure, many smaller games with fewer devs, story driven potentially by small studios reply on people buying the game. But this isn't just some board members or the owners of a company making month on their product and then paying employees for their work (it can come with bonuses for completing work and such alike or profits are even shared based on the company). It's streamers or content creators making money from someone else's work. It's why the debate of "Let's Plays" came up a little while ago and it's why if people on Twitch did a 'let's watch such and such a film together' something like that, they'd no doubt get shut down, banned or DMCA'ed. The game industry essentially let's people stream games because they know the benefits in the end but they also have the complete legal right (if they wanted) to one day just say "No, these are our games you are making money from, you can't stream them." and suddenly, no more Twitch.
Hmm, pie.
