Let's say you are a game dev. What is your threshold for selling out?

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Blackrock offers you money if you will just sprinkle in some death cult propaganda. How much would they have to offer before you sign?

[Finarfin]

But wait, what if I take the money and then not sprinkle in poopaganda?

[pillbox]

But wait, what if I take the money and then not sprinkle in poopaganda?

They'd probably call in the loan which you wouldn't be able to pay then you'd go under. They would probably blacklist you from any possible funding in the future too. Have the gayming journos they own attack you, probably doxx you somehow. Then they'd send blacks to beat you up and steal your TV.

[KnightoftheWind]

If they paid me, personally, 1 million dollars I would do it. Because I know full well that nobody will buy it anyway, and it will be forgotten in a week. It's like free money.

[SpellSword]

How much would they have to offer before you sign?

Just dig in your heels and say no.

I'm serious. Somethings you can't compromise.

[maidenhaver]

I would take the money, cash it, burn the money, then burn them in their houses, while standing on my truck masturbating to Tears of Darkness.

[maidenhaver]

And I'd do it all for a dollar.

[asf]

i cant be bought

[Vaako]

If I could put comedy in like scary movie it would be lit.

[DrSneed]

I'd do it for a clone of Abigail Shapiro

[A Chinese opium den]

I would never be a game dev.

[wndrbr]

If you got to the point that a huge investment company like Blackrock have noticed you, then it means you've already made it big and have a decent audience. It would be harmful to accept any deal like that.

Now, if you're just some random indie dev who makes cheap lovecraftian souls-like deckbuilders yet you still somehow got noticed by Blackrock, then yeah. Take the money, release a pozzed product that's destined to fail, retire.

[Meaty Clackers]

Take them for everything and hit'em with a reverse card. Make a pozzed themed game and inject it with subliminal deretardation. Black girlboss supergenius, actually a fraud and thief. the gay guy dies of aids. turns out that the evil white male you gleefully took the mission to kill was the actual hero in this story and you are the subverted minion, now that you understand you have to pick up where he left off and save the world from a cult

[Tweed]

EGS is more likely to offer smaller studios money for exclusive deals than Blackrock and I don't know if do that anymore. Either way it seems to turn games to ****.

[Eyestabber]

Take them for everything and hit'em with a reverse card. Make a pozzed themed game and inject it with subliminal deretardation. Black girlboss supergenius, actually a fraud and thief. the gay guy dies of aids. turns out that the evil white male you gleefully took the mission to kill was the actual hero in this story and you are the subverted minion, now that you understand you have to pick up where he left off and save the world from a cult

Interesting. Journos don't have any reading comprehension, so you might get away with just a blacklisting. Maybe. But then again, "do girlboss, but make her ********" is the recipe of every single piece of media in the last ten years, so I don't know how you would stand out.

[Kalarion]

Even ten years ago I would have seriously considered it for maybe $1,000,000.

Now I hate them too much. Just the thought of taking their money turns my stomach.

[Finarfin]

I'd do it for a clone of Abigail Shapiro

I guess those Kazar Milkers got the best of you huh?

[NotAI]

1. This poll is not realistic.

These numbers are too low. First of all.

2. I also never understood selling out in games. It never made any sense.

You get paid 50 lemons to make some piece of ****. Okay, so just make it. It's work. You don't have to like work. They guy who picks up your trash every Friday sure doesn't like work. But what actually prevents you from then taking 20 lemons from the payday and hiring another team, and at the same time, and making a second game, side by side, that isn't a piece of ****? I mean, people used to do that. All the time.

They made Barbie Shovelware Game Numba Five, PizzaHut Deliver Boy The Game, and meanwhile made another game that they actually wanted to make, and so what? What happened? What changed?

The real paradox, which need explaining, is why do today's developers only make one, ****** game when they sell out?

Could it be they are not really selling out and actually believe all the ********? Making what they really wanna make, after all? It could be.

[Oyster Sauce]

Assuming there's a caveat where I can't turn around and put a trillion dollars towards glassing Africa, I wouldn't do it. Much like getting vaxed, cheating, or sucking a penis, the knowledge of having done so would haunt my every waking moment and ruin the rest of my life.

[Tangerine]

I considered the idea of taking the money, putting the bare minimum to ship the product, and putting the rest into a non-pozzed game, but there's no way they'll give you the money without a stack of legal strings.

So never.

[Nessa]

So does it count if you're a game dev but make mind numbing IQ draining casual games for phones?

Is that like, already selling out therefor you can't actually sell out?

[loregamer]

Uh oh...

[rusty_shackleford]

Uh oh...

Buy HQ Platinum now or we're going to be forced to sell to Resetera

[Norfleet]

Blackrock offers you money if you will just sprinkle in some death cult propaganda. How much would they have to offer before you sign?

How much death cult propaganda are we talking about here? Am I getting paid on a per-piece-of-propaganda basis? I can go full hog and put out an entire firehose worth if it's on a per-piece basis. I will put SO MUCH in that it will become a parody.

[1998]

Really don't care. If someone pays me 100k I add as many ****** flags as they want into any game

[Norfleet]

Here's a question: Most developers putting pozz in their game claim to be doing so for mealy-mouthed reasons. Would you respect a dev more for it if they said their reason was straight up "Because they paid me to do it"?

[TKVNC]

I'd like to say never, but without the option I can't say I wouldn't sell out.

Funny thing with temptation. You're not resisting it, if you don't have it.

[Oyster Sauce]

Assuming there's a caveat where I can't turn around and put a trillion dollars towards glassing Africa, I wouldn't do it. Much like getting vaxed, cheating, or sucking a penis, the knowledge of having done so would haunt my every waking moment and ruin the rest of my life.

Also, I would reveal the bribe attempt and grift off of turning it down as much as possible.

[MC_Sea]

Blackrock offers you money if you will just sprinkle in some death cult propaganda. How much would they have to offer before you sign?

How much death cult propaganda are we talking about here? Am I getting paid on a per-piece-of-propaganda basis? I can go full hog and put out an entire firehose worth if it's on a per-piece basis. I will put SO MUCH in that it will become a parody.

Reminds me of the Velma show that ended being horrendous to the point that the wokies thought that it was secretely some sort of right wing psy-op to make fun of them and that Mindy Kaling was controlled opposition.

[Cloharp7]

In this hypothetical scenario:

1) take the deal with Blackrock at highest possibile price
2) introduce lgbt characters in game
3) they are all obnoxious
4) they are all evil characters
5) put a scene where the good guy smashes their faces with a sledgehammer
6) "homophobia? Why? The evil demon queen is a strong, independent lesbian black woman you mysogynist racist! Why can't she be the threat this world deserves?"

It has "diversity" alright. Just not in the way the wokies want. A "bait and switch".

The ones on our side really need to start playing the same games as the wokies do. Starting from heavy weaponization of plausible deniability.