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'We don't have shareholders, but we also don't think about them,' Larian Studios uses its stage time at the DICE Awards to speak out against a brutal industry climate (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's probably not true as making your the most money. To do that you need to be morally bankrupt and engage in predatory practices and exploit mental illness.

But it will make you a lot of money and win you the love of fans through the ages. Which I prefer and will continue to spend money on.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

through the ages

let me just check in with Blizzard and ... oh no

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah. They started as Larian but they lived long enough to become...them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Blizzard ceased being Blizzard roughly in the span of the dev of the 1st and 2nd expansions to Wow. That's when the core of the original Blizzard left.

And then remade Diablo 1 and 2 as Torchlight 1 and 2.

[–] Anticorp 7 points 10 months ago

To do that you need to be morally bankrupt and engage in predatory practices and exploit mental illness.

You just described 99% of all successful corporations.

[–] samus12345 5 points 10 months ago

If the goal is to make money and also make fun games, everybody wins. If it's just to make as much money as possible, we get how things are today.