I know actual game developers who released their games for free or under a pay-what-you-want model. They refuse to do so again because they can’t support themselves by doing it. I am a game developer and I won’t release my games for free because I need to support myself. There is all the data you need.
but that’s not true. people make things all the time without being paid.
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“snake game” returns over one hundred twenty thousand results on github.
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you’re moving the goalposts.
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you never mentioned ‘quality’ until you wanted to disqualify data that didn’t support your position.
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the plural of “anecdote” is not “data”
this is rich coming from someone who is moving the goal posts.
github shows a hundred thousand repositories for the query “hangman”. assuming 10% of them are false positives it’s still a great number.
this doesn’t prove anyone ever needs to be paid to make something. a single counter example disproves the claim.
there are over one hundred fifty thousand results on github for “tictactoe”.
just how many paid games do you think there are, by the way?