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This post was inspired by two things I saw recently: The connection between these two items is not obvious, but it is interesting. The lemon problem WeFunder, for the uninitiated, is a crowdfunding platform for (primarily) technology companies. It allows community-oriented startups to sell a small % of ownership to their users and supporters.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Great article. Make your community your unfair advantage. But why call it unfair? Unfair to whom? To those who try to nickel and dime their players with MTX and the same shit every year? Nah i don't think that's unfair. Unfair only perhaps to indie developers, but then again everyone starts somewhere and they could imagine that when they are doing quality work that a community will flock around them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'd say unfair to the really big players (Ubi, Activision/Blizzard, EA) who push out broken games with predatory mechanics and little of actual value. The companies that don't see their players as a community, but a cash pit to dig value out of for their shareholders.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Remembering Habe once saying in an interview that valve isn't a public stock company because they want players as their customers, not stockholders.

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