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If any wealth patrons want to fund games where we all overthrow capitalism hit me up

Gotta dump it all in the LLM Ponzi scheme and or else the S&P500 collapses 😭

Hello! We are! In just the last year alone, we have funded 12 released and upcoming games, and are funding numerous console and mobile ports on top of that I know it’s easy to focus on the doom and gloom, but I promise you, there are a ton of us who are still making cool video games happen

The “why isn’t anyone funding games anymore?” framing hits a little too close—publishers still spend huge, they’re just increasingly allergic to anything that isn’t a guaranteed hit.

It is because corporate investment in entertainment properties is a historical early indicator of recession?

For the same reason people are about to stop throwing money Skydance’s way. Greedy losers like Bobby Kottick intentionally doing bad business to line their own pockets at the expense of the industry

2024 alone wiped out an estimated 14,800 industry jobs, per Statista, with Microsoft and Unity cutting the most.

that's great and all, but there ARE people funding game development, they just don't get any publicity because they can't afford the media attention AAA gets.

…outsource what we can’t do ourselves. While with less than 100K (a more realistic number these days) we’d still have to constantly think how to pay the bills and spend lots of time on side jobs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ So probably “no funding” means “little viable funding”.

I imagine part of it had to do with a handful of goofy pricks convincing the people with money that if they ask Claude nicely enough it’ll spit out the next Call of Duty.