Comment Not as if we couldn't see that coming ... (Score 1) 119
I know there is always the desire to jump into the "next great thing" with gaming, but the "next great thing" with gaming is doing things entirely with open source and free software" I know, you are like, how the heck can you kill the old gaming business models, well, look at how much things have changed in the past few years, look at cell phone games, look at steam. Things are not going to stay the same, and google, the big bloated company that they are, thought they could "inovate". Google doesn't innovate, they mostly kill products and internal innovation. They are never going to be ahead of some small startup, because, as much as they try, that is just not how things work. You have to be agile, flexible and not bogged down with corporate crap (why amazon can't even make a half-decent game)
This whole idea of "upending your lives and sacrificing everything to work in the gaming industry" has to die. People wonder about crap like "why is there not more diversity in the games industry" or other stupid questions, while there you have it, the idea is that you get young eager developers, waste their time and money, and then they go find a new industry to work in later. (and I can't imagine sacrificing my life to go work for someone else, I mean, what kind of garbage idea is that)