Was I suppose to tip developers?

[Zoltan]

All these years I had no idea we were suppose to tip them. I did not see a tipping jar on the game page. Did I miss the jar?

I thought devs got wages and I did not realize they were living off tips.

I engineer for a living and never got a tip. So I just assumed we did not need to tip them.

[Ben Lubar]

I wouldn't describe the amount I get from donations as "livable" but that is a system I set up for my game long before Mike Ybarra "came up with" the idea of paying extra money to a corporation.

[Zoltan]

So are we tipping a company or an individual developer. Like tipping the waitress or chef. What if I want to just tip the graphics designer.

[Squirrel With Acorn]

What the heck are you even talking about? Where is any of this coming from? What inspired you to make this post that seems like complete nonsense without any context given?

[Ben Lubar]

Publicado originalmente por Purple:

What the heck are you even talking about? Where is any of this coming from? What inspired you to make this post that seems like complete nonsense without any context given?

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ex-blizzard-boss-wants-to-be-able-to-tip-devs-at-the-end-of-a-game/1100-6522674/

[Amaterasu]

Publicado originalmente por Ben Lubar:

Publicado originalmente por Purple:

What the heck are you even talking about? Where is any of this coming from? What inspired you to make this post that seems like complete nonsense without any context given?

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ex-blizzard-boss-wants-to-be-able-to-tip-devs-at-the-end-of-a-game/1100-6522674/

I'm not even going to click that and just take a stab in the dark. Jay Allen Brack is behind this one?

[Ben Lubar]

Publicado originalmente por sungoddess14:

Publicado originalmente por Ben Lubar:

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ex-blizzard-boss-wants-to-be-able-to-tip-devs-at-the-end-of-a-game/1100-6522674/

I'm not even going to click that and just take a stab in the dark. Jay Allen Brack is behind this one?

Nope, but I initially got which ex-blizzard executive it was wrong in my post above so I don't blame you.

https://twitter.com/Qwik/status/1778269707575119977

[RasaNova]

Publicado originalmente por Ben Lubar:

Publicado originalmente por sungoddess14:

I'm not even going to click that and just take a stab in the dark. Jay Allen Brack is behind this one?

Nope, but I initially got which ex-blizzard executive it was wrong in my post above so I don't blame you.

https://twitter.com/Qwik/status/1778269707575119977

Is that what this is about? It seems like a reach to go from somebody saying something on twitter, to "were we supposed to be tipping developers." But maybe.

I assumed this was somehow linked to his disagreement over game licensing in another thread.

(btw the easy answer to the OP is "No.")

[Ben Lubar]

Publicado originalmente por RasaNova:

Publicado originalmente por Ben Lubar:

Nope, but I initially got which ex-blizzard executive it was wrong in my post above so I don't blame you.

https://twitter.com/Qwik/status/1778269707575119977

Is that what this is about? It seems like a reach to go from somebody saying something on twitter, to "were we supposed to be tipping developers." But maybe.

I assumed this was somehow linked to his disagreement over game licensing in another thread.

(btw the easy answer to the OP is "No.")

Across all the news sites I've seen that have reported on this, about 90% of the comments have been a simple "of course not" with maybe some more text to explain why. I don't think we're in danger of this idea being realized in the form described in the tweet any time soon.

[Chika Ogiue]

I don't tip at restaurants* so I'm hardly going to tip a developer / publisher putting out games.

* In my country, tipping is considered rude and demeaning.

[Ben Lubar]

Publicado originalmente por Chika Ogiue:

I don't tip at restaurants* so I'm hardly going to tip a developer / publisher putting out games.

* In my country, tipping is considered rude and demeaning.

It's rude and demeaning pretty much everywhere, it's just that where I live companies are allowed to claim that tips are part of someone's salary and then actually pay them below minimum wage.

[Princess Luna]

No proof that tips will go to devs and not to CEO pockets.
And if devs lives of tip and not salary then it is my concern

[Tito Shivan]

Publicado originalmente por Ben Lubar:

Publicado originalmente por Purple:

What the heck are you even talking about? Where is any of this coming from? What inspired you to make this post that seems like complete nonsense without any context given?

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ex-blizzard-boss-wants-to-be-able-to-tip-devs-at-the-end-of-a-game/1100-6522674/

TLDR: "Instead of giving devs a share of the profits of the game they've crunched to build we'll ask the customers instead to throw them a coin or two if they find the game is good."

Funny way to rename outsourcing residuals and shift blame upon the customer if devs don't make a living out of making games.

[Sleepy Yoshi]

A lot of very small studio's already have patreons, support dlc or the like. I don't have any fundamental issue with that even though I don't generally partake in such.

Who the hell is going to tip a AAA studio though, which the games he mentions are from? Maybe pay your employee's with the billions you make in profit rather than suggesting the community subsidise your payroll through 'goodwill'.

[[N]ebsun]

I can't find a reason for myself to support something like this, so I will hard pass on any game implementing it.. pay the devs up front for whatever work they put in. If the tips are not for them, even more reason to not buy into it. If the tips are something extra on top of the base game price then I still see no reason for it.

Smells more like a way to bypass paying the cut to the storefront selling the game. Valve should include taking a cut on all in-game transactions, inclusive of "tips" for games Sold through Steam.

[cinedine]

Publicado originalmente por Princess Luna:

No proof that tips will go to devs and not to CEO pockets.
And if devs lives of tip and not salary then it is my concern

And who says the developers are deserving of it?
If I liked the story, it should go to the writers. If I like the music, it should go to the artists. Or at least the one who put it together. If I like the overall graphical style, it should go to "lead ambient design" or whatever the role was called.

Lots of reason why you might have liked a game, and far too many people working on one nowadays.