Also, if you don't partake of visiting companies whose sole purpose is making money......you must suffer a massive guilt trip every single time you go to the shops!
Well, given that I have the need to go into some shops for food, clothing and other necessities, I don't have any guilt in doing so. I do try to avoid some companies when I have the alternatives.
Also, again in defence of RGG, getting sucked in to GOKO's sales pitch, which was probably very slick and attention grabbing, isnt akin to the 'selling out' you are accusing them off
I don't think they are "sell outs", because there is a whole story I don't know about (it is likely they did not know what Goko was going to be at the point when they sold the rights). I was just trying to show that "a wad of cash" is not the only thing to consider and since many people tend to think their life's work was not only a money-making machinery, it seemed like a good example. From Jay's interview in this forum, it seems that he does not see RGG as just a money-making machinery, so I would guess that decision making in RGG does consider other things as well.
Hang on....
RGG had a free version and a company to run.
Someone came along and said 'We can pay you money and produce a flashy online version that will generate more money'. You can then plough that money back into your company and do more of the things you love.
Now, you seem to be saying you wouldn't have taken that money based on some sort of ethical principles and imagined sales figures on your part.
Ethical principles you say Jay seems to have, which is excellent.
ERGO, if there was nothing unethical about it, then it was a monetary decision. Jay figured he could get more money from Goko than he could from Isotropic fan sales, and as he is the only one here that runs a sucessful game company, I reckon he knows what he is doing, and when the contract comes up for renewal, he will revisit and decide again.
Now, when I say I would have also taken Gokos offer if I was in his place, im apparently unethical and my imaginary company ill never own is to be avoided like some sort of Strip Mining Company destroying Native Villages!