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by skotobaza 41 days ago
> The cost could very well be in the millions for a single project

How did you come to this number? Something simple like giving the binaries with docs doesn't cost that much money. I'm not sure what you are referring to.

> how many hours of gameplay does that actually buy?

You seem to confuse the cost of continued support with the cost of giving it to the community. Nobody is asking publishers to continue support when they don't want to.

> But as someone who doesn't play games, why on earth would I want to encourage this?

You are not expected to support this if you don't care about it... But don't act surprised when you find out that some people do play games and they do care about them.

> You're suggesting a subsidy for gamers which everyone else would to pay for

No, that's not how it works. Not even close.
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walletdrainer 41 days ago
>> You're suggesting a subsidy for gamers which everyone else would to pay for

>No, that's not how it works. Not even close.

As far as I can tell, legislation which enables you to play a game in perpetuity instead of for a limited time will likely reduce the amount of tax revenue your gaming-related activities generate.

A useful metric to focus on here is the cost per hour of entertainment. The price of the game itself might stay the same, but the cost of your gaming itself would be subsidized.

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skotobaza 41 days ago
> legislation which enables you to play a game in perpetuity instead of for a limited time will likely reduce the amount of tax revenue your gaming-related activities generate

How so? If I'm sure that a game is not going to die, I will be more willing to pay for it. The more such games exist, the more money I will be willing to spend on them. Hence more taxes from me. Otherwise I will stick to older games that don't have this problem, which will bring less taxes from me because of the cost.

> cost of your gaming itself would be subsidized

By whom? I know there are currently tax returns (or exemptions is more correct term probably) for gaming companies. But how does having end of life plans change this?

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