[hattmall]

Yeah, that's reasonable. Assuming the game isn't exploitive or loaded with dark patterns and things like that. How often does that happen though?

It's always possible to dig deep enough and find questionable moral things, in this case, it would be about the platform, how customers are reached etc.

But that's far from my point, it's not reasonable to expect someone to avoid all creations derived through profits.

It's that the overwhelming majority, 99.99% of people who become rich are directly engaging in these questionable practices or are very directly supported by those who do.

Even making the video game likely makes you dependant on Microsoft, Apple or Google and the ills of their rise, but I see that as far enough removed that yes the solo developer could be considered reasonably ethical.

But again, how often does it happen?

In the US there are 1.4 million people with a net worth of over 10 million. How many of them were solo developers with a non-exploitive products that didn't sell out to someone who made the product exploitive?