“I’ve often thought ‘I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20 because it was worth more than my initial $70 and they didn’t try to nickel and dime me every second,’”

You know what, I could agree with that opinion if the irony wasn't lost to folks

No. One. Would tip for a blizzard game.

1. Blizzard DOES nickel and dime you at every second. Literally.

2. Blizzard has not produced a good game since Overwatch 2.

3. Blizzard made 8.71 Billion in 2023. They can afford to pay their developers without relying on public donations.

Is dragging what happens before someone else slams them?

What, don’t you have phones?

Sure, put it out for free and I'll donate the same as I do for any open source software I use.

I'd tip the developers, but not the shareholders or execs who treat the developers like slaves...

If there's a need for tips, your business model sucks and you should be ashamed of yourself.

If there's no need for tips, you could just take some of your perverted bonuses or some of that ridiculous amount of money you take out of children's pockets with micro transactions and show those people some love who did the actual work, you prick. They make millions and millions for you.

What a world we live in where asshats like that step forward and ejaculate their greed into the world and expect applause!

Disgusting.

Blizzard is such a disgusting company nowdays. They don't even try to hide it.

I think the concept of "Pay what you want." is a very friendly approach to this. It already exists on platforms like itch.io and some free to play games financed through donations, like Dwarf Fortress, also became extremely popular. Humble Bundles are also pretty famous for this. And of course kickstarters do something a bit similar to this.

Personally I'd love to see donation buttons/infos especially for all the free music and games that exist out there. But I want to make sure my donations reach the people who actually worked on it, so I dislike products like paypal or patreon where a portion of the money goes to men in the middle and their managers/owners, etc. A bank account number or something along those lines where I can transfer money a bit more directly would be nice, but some creators only provide paypal buttons, so I won't donate.

They can take the tip of my dick

M'game dev

How about shareholders tip me instead?

I think all CEO's should create some sort of tip platform.

They do so much single handedly for the company, most companies could simply not exist or have any direction without them and their leadership.

And to make things worse they aren't appreciated and are hardly compensated.

Imagine having to go to lunches at fancy golf courses, trips with your peers to exotic locations, all for a measly few hundred million per year?

CEO's are almost being mistreated and borderline persecuted infront of us, and all they want is to be treated and compensated fairly like the average worker with 3 jobs.

Maybe if we all come together and show them that we care , and more importantly, send them as much of our money as we can, then they will feel better about their terrible circumstances.

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To all of you who still tip in this day and age: will this convince you that tipping culture only exists to underpay (usually black) workers?