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0 pointswhatshisface3y ago0 comments

What's the alternative to capitalism, PBS but for video games?

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would gamepass be the closest to that? The other alternative would be games being small indie projects or huge community things. The mods people release for free are sometimes pretty insane in scope, even if Noone ever paid for a game again we'd still get some decent games at least

GekkePrutser3y ago

Game pass is more like the Netflix of gaming. Not all the content you want but at a reasonable price. Stuff gets removed a lot and there's lots of fragmentation with competing services.

whatshisfaceOP3y ago

Gamepass would be cable for videogames, PBS for videogames would be a government agency that made them.

dleslie3y ago

The government of Canada funds the development of a fair amount of video games through the Canadian media fund.

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thewebcount3y ago

PBS is not a government agency. According to [0] they get about 13% of their budget from the federal government and 5% from state governments. So less than 20% of their funding is from the government.

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-much-support-does-the-U-S-governme...

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