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by 999900000999 166 days ago
Yeah my first reaction was, what the heck is is this ?

Now I can imagine having specific campaigns. Let's say they need $50,000 to release an upgraded port of Shining Force.

Cool, I might be open to pre-ordering it at $25 so they can see if there's enough interest to proceed. But why am I going to literally just donate to a private company. I think the entire world has gone mad, there's not even a real product here. It's not like for that $5 a month they give you a random game or something. They just want money.

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I would be happy to donate to campaigns to buy old ip (video games, but also music, movies, old tabletop rpgs etc) to then slap an open license on and release for free. Seems like a good investment for the future, to get as much content as possible away from rights hoarders.

I am also happy to buy more old games from GOG than I ever have the time to play, so they already get my money.

Not so sure about this patreon thing though.