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62% of Funded Blockchain and Web3 Companies Attract Fewer Than 100 Monthly Organic Visitors (guerrillabuzz.com)

submitted 3 months ago by thinkabu@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I buy a short $5 indie game. I give it away afterwards digitally to a friend. The next guy does the same thing. And the next guy.

Now the developer has to primarily make money by selling merch or ingame ads. No thanks. If the game is good, people will buy it.

You could argue people did this with physical media. But it was not nearly as impactful; I couldn't click a few buttons in seconds and hand the game away.

[–] msage@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

So you opened another can of worms.

I would be very glad if we would stop with game sales altogether. Instead, add option to support the developer and platform. Completely unrelated to the amount of people and hours played.

Just download the game (ideally through P2P), enjoy it, 'donate' if you like it, however much you like.

For online games, you have a pool for keeping servers alive, if it runs out, open-source it, and let users with the maintenance.

Like I would have donated much more to Terraria than to Devil May Cry 5.