so why's everyone scared of going independent? I did so years ago, walked out of my job and started my own business. I had to overcome an inherent fear of failure to do it, but once i did it there was no turning back. Yes, as he says in Dune, "fear is the killer". Fear will stop you doing many things in life you will one day regret not having tried
Im not trying to make this some sort of lifechanging speech but for gawds sakes, humanity is built upon the actions of small groups and indiviauls, not large statist or corproate entities. Microsoft, Google all started a small independents. Look at them today.
Anways i dont understand why anyone chooses to work for someone else as in being employed by them, if they have the skills that are valuable then they can go and do it on their own, by their own set of principles.
In the case of SH5. If thats the same group of devs doing the Sh titles then im really surpsied they havent flown the coop. Its not them who need Ubi, its Ubi who needs them.
What they cant develop the game but in a certified Ubisoft office? They are satisified that Ubi will take the majority of profit, skim it off the top and pay the dev team like if they were plumbers? My view is that the art and work that has gone into SH series is by rights of natural justice the property of the devs and artists.
The music industry for many years treated music artists with the same sort of, we own all the rights crap, and if you look at EA and Ubi today they have done the same thing. Publishers owning all rights including release decisions about the work created by others.
And yes im a capitalist :-)
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