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This is interesting, I wonder if these numbers about increasing tax revenue that TIGA is claiming are accurate.
This direct government support is always a little strange to me, like why aren’t they making enough money on their own.
Government support makes sense for things that everyone needs, but support for the video games industry specifically seems a little weird.
Maybe I’m just missing out on some important UK context though. And honestly I love video games so I don’t mind so much, just wondering why UK taxpayers are cool with this.
Development of the arts is a common thing for the public to fund. Look at the movies and TV shows coming out of Canada, too.
Development of the arts is supposed to be for arts that could never stand on their own feet commercially though.
Game publishers shouldn’t ever be getting a cent.
Game developers shouldn’t either unless the game is released for free.
Except countries don’t fund the whole game and certainly not without conditions and criteria.
This also ignores indie devs who often only get their start self funding their project via day jobs. We could have so many more new ideas in niche genres if actually gave two shits about supporting new devs and not some AAA mega corp churning out the same uninspired garbage.
