Video Games and Lawyers
Some gamers tend to forget that the video games they play are primarily commercial products. They romanticise the video game industry per se, along with their own “relationship” with the developers. There is also a tendency to forget that they are “customers. Nothing bursts this delusional bubble more efficiently than the involvement of lawyers. Lawyers tend to cut to the chase as time is money etc. Community Managers dissemble, marketing and PR companies hype and misdirect, but the moment lawyers are involved in any way, it means that something unequivocal is going to happen. Sadly, the involvement of the legal profession in a video games life cycle is often a bad sign. Something that became quite apparent this week, when developers Gun Media made an announcement about the future of Friday the 13th: The Game.
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