Valve: Steam'd Penguins

Posted Jul 18, 2012 12:43 UTC (Wed) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: Valve: Steam'd Penguins by Otus
Parent article: Valve: Steam’d Penguins

Yes, because there are coherent model for monetization of those things by intermediaries - the obvious ones being to sell support contracts for the software or manufacture hardware that uses the software. A "high production values" video game comes with a whole bunch of audiovisual material that probably isn't usefully monetizable by intermediaries, but still needed an awful lot of polishing and attention-to-detail to reach the desired standard. (And even if it was monetizable by intermediaries, there's the question of whether the resulting supply of money would allow you to hire a voice actor people have actually heard of.)