ashes of the singularity vs supreme commander

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Again: This is what you, as a gamer, want. has opened the door for developers to also own the game they’re making.

Digital Distribution + Kickstarter + etc. In fact, you reading this means I own your eyes which I can then sell to a third world black market organ dealer. As a greedy bastard business person, I want to own everything I can. On the other hand, they might just shop it around as a WFH.īottom line: As a gamer, you want the people making the game to own the game. They also bought GPG so there’s hope that they might be making a new Total Annihilation some day.

Total Annihilation was bought by (the World of Tanks guys) from Atari. That is, Square Enix would put millions of dollars into GPG to develop it but at the end of the day Square Enix, not the developer, owned the game.Īnd that, my friends, is how most games are made these days. This was one of the first games of the “new” model (the shitty model imo). Supreme Commander 2 was bought by Square Enix but still developed by Gas Powered Games. The problem with that system is that sooner or later, it killed the game studio. The publisher would front tens of millions of dollars and the studio would make thee game for a royalty (that was never fully recouped from the advances). Back in those days, that was the business model. Supreme Commander 1 was developed by Gas Powered Games. Let’s use Supreme Commander as an example.

However, in the old days, the company making the game still owned the game. To a certain degree, gamers have always been getting ripped off. I’m no writer so please bear with me through this. I’m going to touch on a few of those topics here. We have a unique opportunity to talk about some of the things that makes this game unique.

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This Winter I plan to do a series of articles for The Escapist on Ashes of the Singularity.

Ashes of the singularity vs supreme commander