cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/18457741
I realize that, after all this time, I have never payed for my all-time favorite games I grew up playing (Fallout 3 & Skyrim). I can pay for it, but I really do not want to pay the money to the Bethesda’s marketing team, CEO, and whoever bullshit middle man who wants a cut of that. I want to give directly to the team that made the damn game, the artists, the sound designers, the voice actors, the programmers. If there was a way to do that, i’d be more happily inclined to spend my money on a decade year old game.
Just thinking
What are your ideas of how this could actually be implemented?
In Germany, it’s illegal to donate without the person receiving doesn’t have a company, or a non-profit. So it quickly becomes difficult in some parts of the world.
The other problem is weird moderation. A few months ago I made a post on the Linux Mint forum to ask the developers to implement the cinnamon panel to also auto-expand (so it looks more like a dock when the user wants it that way). I simply mentioned that if there’s an official bounty website for mint, that I’d gladly contribute there. I almost got banned over there just for asking that. So since then, I don’t ask anymore, and I donate less. I don’t wanna get in trouble.
Huh. Why, what was the reasoning there?
Apparently it was against the ToS of the forum. Not sure why though.
Weirdness. Anyway, kudos for being one of the few people actively supporting FOSS monetarily!
Can you elaborate on the Germany part? I am from Germany and I tried to look this up and found nothing. The main thing I found was:
From GoFundMe
So it sounds like you can receive private donations for anything no problem. Obviously it’s taxable but that should be obvious, and true in most places.
It’s basically illegal to do anything in Germany🫠
Except being a nazi or support genocide, last I heard.