ahh, how much money are we talking about - if we (the gamers and fans) could fund the development of a game? 100-150k dollars per programmer/designer*10-20*2 years? Plus extras: about 5 millions. Lets say 7,5 to be on the safe side

Thats a meager 250 dollars per head, if we can gather 30000 fans.
(enough dreaming now, lets eat and do research...)
Bruce at
www.bruceongames.com (almost inactive now) predicted that, in the future, most developers will be part of big organizations. The pioneering era of small firm developers are over???????????