your insistence on relevance is giving the lie to your denial about moving the goalposts.
your insistence on relevance is giving the lie to your denial about moving the goalposts.
I know actual game developers who released their games for free or under a pay-what-you-want model. They refuse to do so again because they can’t support themselves by doing it. I am a game developer and I won’t release my games for free because I need to support myself. There is all the data you need.
the plural of “anecdote” is not “data”
You know it and you are simply arguing in bad faith
this is rich coming from someone who is moving the goal posts.
you never mentioned ‘quality’ until you wanted to disqualify data that didn’t support your position.
you’re moving the goalposts.
no, they don’t: people make things without being paid all the time.
“snake game” returns over one hundred twenty thousand results on github.
there are over one hundred fifty thousand results on github for “tictactoe”.
just how many paid games do you think there are, by the way?
github shows a hundred thousand repositories for the query “hangman”. assuming 10% of them are false positives it’s still a great number.
this doesn’t prove anyone ever needs to be paid to make something. a single counter example disproves the claim.
so use isn’t tied to paying. one has nothing to do with the other.
They showed you how people couldn’t make these things without people paying for them.
but that’s not true. people make things all the time without being paid.
rent is immoral
they still have the design. I haven’t taken something from them. I don’t owe them anything.
not the owners: the designers. what if I copy the bridge and put it in my front yard: do you think I owe royalties to the engineering firm?
when you drive over a bridge, do you tip the engineering form? the contractors? they’re the ones who created this experience for you.
that’s doesn’t follow
The moral thing to do is to pay your share of that if you make a copy, even if the copy itself doesn’t cost anything.
i don’t need to disagree to disbelieve. i do disagree, but without establishing your justification for this claim, it’s kind of hard to argue against it.
there’s no reason to believe what you claimed. a claim made without justification can be dismissed without justification.
this has never been true