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There should be a way to give directly to the developers (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 7 months ago by aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I realize that, after all this time, I have never payed for my all-time favorite games I grew up playing (Fallout 3 & Skyrim). I can pay for it, but I really do not want to pay the money to the Bethesda’s marketing team, CEO, and whoever bullshit middle man who wants a cut of that. I want to give directly to the team that made the damn game, the artists, the sound designers, the voice actors, the programmers. If there was a way to do that, i’d be more happily inclined to spend my money on a decade year old game.

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[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 80 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Go find some of the member’s personal projects and support them. One of the creature designers recently started a Kickstarter for a comic book

Lots of the original teams for those games have moved on

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 12 points 7 months ago

That's a great idea. And you get more content!

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 7 points 7 months ago

There should be an app or something for this..

[–] Glass0448 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Almost all the github accounts have a "buy me a coffee" button.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What would Pirate Jesus do? Buy them a coffee 🙏

[–] Glass0448 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Code comes from Cappuccino, so sayeth the messiah

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

A programmer is a device for turning caffeine into code (to borrow a math joke).