‘We don’t have shareholders, but we also don’t think about them,’ Larian Studios uses its stage time at the DICE Awards to speak out against a brutal industry climate
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‘We don’t have shareholders, but we also don’t think about them,’ Larian Studios uses its stage time at the DICE Awards to speak out against a brutal industry climate
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"Building games that are actually fun is going to make you the most money, that's it."
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The problem is publishers and the huge risk you’re selling to create a hit. You still have shareholders. Those who take the risk in financing a game development and those who own the IP.

Unless you got extremely lucky and can gamble with your own cash you always have shareholders in game development.

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