ZA/UM dissolution

[cheshire.panther]

Now given that Robert and other folks are officially confirmed to be fired from the company, is it morally accepted to buy this game?

Will they continue receiving any royalties, or are we essentially supporting evil soulless corporate entity that wants to kill everything that is precious to us?

[Teodor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEHIggA-C3E

[Scruffbeard]

Its childish really! We still ♥♥♥♥♥ about candidates, politicians, and still vote? The free open discussion and criticism is what makes us more aware and stronger as a whole.

[Delta Centauri]

Origineel geplaatst door NeeLot:

Origineel geplaatst door Delta Centauri:

Right up there with the irony of people arguing on Twitter, Facebook, or Youtube about how Anarchy or Communism is good and Capitalism bad; we should discuss this further on a store page that's effectively dominated the PC market with little conflict :P

That you? [iea.org.uk]

That was what I was referencing, love the meme.
It's like seeing friends who say they'll never support Blizzard-Activision again complaining Overwatch 2s servers are broken on launch. Age and controversy is just dust in the wind. Either ZA/UM will kill itself with getting rid of their legacy staff, or people will forget and they still make games people will play.

[RACHMANOVSKI]

Origineel geplaatst door 3OOBLK-imok-:

Ironic... this all started because self-proclaimed socialists/communists flew too close to the sun basking in both that and the capitalism wetdream, even giving all their rights away to old devil-horned men in expensive suits after signing on a dotted line, instead of remaining a small and humble collective. Talk about wanting your cake and eating it too... then sticking your hand in everyone else's ideological fridge, but maybe that's why communism always fails because not only should everyone share, but they should share their systems for profit without being tethered, too. Ideorgyological fails.

Or.. or...

They have to participate in current economic system in order for the game to actually released as the masterpiece it is.

Making game is expensive, it's not like "you're commie but your iphone venezuela puerto rico cuba", Swen Vincke, a staunch Indie developer literally put himself as collateral to raise money for Divinity Dragon Commander and DOS 1 -- that success lead them to make DOS2. But *all* future revenue of their old games (Divine Divinity, Beyond Divinity, Divinity 2 Ego Draconis) is taken by the capitalist who funded their game.

Point is: This is not just about ZAUM original dev were sold out, they *had* to sold out, Capitalism made sure to put brilliant people with brilliant idea on Capital leash to generate money.

[eglepe]

It's like that Black Mirror episode. Capitalism will neuter, absorb and commodify any criticism against it.

[Scruffbeard]

"I didnt sell out Son, I bought in" SLC Punk

[slantedgray]

kinda red flag for me was when they were making drops in the shop for art/merch advertising it on ig especially, just to say "hey, it's limited on (someday), buy it"

i bought myself a mug, cards, pins, some time ago, but that was purely because i wanted to support game, but now it seems like a cashgrab, all of this, and prices for limited art were very high, i hope Rostov got something from these sells, because he was mention there as an artist and they were probably his private arts