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    7 months ago

    If the studios had the resources they could easily become independent. But the corporate side owns the rights to their works, so the now independent studio doesn’t have any incoming revenue.

    The average employee won’t work for scraps or nothing. So it’s effectively over if big corpo cuts them off.

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        7 months ago

        Misrepresenting what I’m saying is not nice of you.

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            7 months ago

            Why even engage if you’re not interested in discussion?

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              That is not what happened here. I am saying: buying a studio and saying whoops you don’t exist anymore should not happen. You are saying: but it does. Because copyright? Even for shit that’s not out yet. A bunch of these closures involve killing unreleased projects, which are obviously never going to go anywhere in the hands of whichever robots own them. Tell me their ownership matters and you will see what backlash looks like.

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                7 months ago

                Thanks for explaining. I was not arguing the point that closures happen, just expanding on why it’s not easy for the studios to get back on their feet again as independents.

                There will likely be non-disclosure agreements, non-competes or simply IP rights to take into consideration if we want to argue why these studios can’t continue their work. In the end it comes down to legal stuff and money. The IP rights even for unreleased products very likely are with the parent corporation. The same goes for the codebase.

                So yeah. The studios are left with nothing, except a severance pay if they’re lucky.

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                  7 months ago

                  Normative statements are a novel concept to some people.

                  Pointing to all that and going AND THAT’S HORSESHIT is not a factual argument - it’s a moral judgement.

                  I’m not saying it’s untrue. I’m saying it’s unacceptable.

                  In short:

                  Fuck.

                  That.

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                    7 months ago

                    Well, you can only win against big corpo if you shoot them with their own guns.

                    Or literal guns.