The future of Submarine simulations

[thebeasle]

Originally Posted by TorpX

Why not? When your light goes out, do you re-invent the light bulb, or buy one of those proven Edison jobs?

My guess is any one of those things would cost 6 figures and don't lend themselves to a kickstarter campaign (may not even be allowed by the rules). I mean someone has to own the IP, someone has to own the source code (unless they vow to make to turn it over to open source). You raise funds to hire a development studio, but then who owns the game? Who takes responsibility for sales, marketing and distribution? Who gets the sales revenue?

There are a whole host of issues that I think makes crowd-sourcing those three options difficult if not impossible. I could be wrong. Software development is not my profession or expertise.