Richard Garriott - Dragoncon 2014 Interview

Aubrielle said:

But that's America.

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Don't blame employers. Most would like to be able to afford to just pay their employees full time rather than have to jump through hoops to make their business work. Blame the politicians and special interest groups and lazy people.

Someone else posted here that in many countries internship is illegal. I think we are seeing the illegalization of it here in America, slowly.

The millennials generally seem to want socialism, and socialism is what they're getting. Hope it works out for you all.

Most? Really?

zahratustra said:

Most? Really?

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Why assume the opposite? Expect the best, plan for the worst Makes life so much easier.

zahratustra said:

Most? Really?

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I would say most yes. I can't prove it and it's based on 20 years of anecdotal experience running my own small business with 80-85 employees.

But I knew perhaps hundreds of small business owners like myself and we were NOT out to exploit employees. It's a lot easier for businesses to hire people full time - makes scheduling and a whole of other things much easier and straight forward.

Most major complications with employees are usually rooted in government. From healthcare, to worker's comp, to changes in payroll taxes... all those things have a constant upward pressure and the result of reducing one's net pay... of which employers get the privilege of dealing with. I sold my business in 2009. I honestly don't know how I'd deal with obamacare if I was still in charge as healthcare was already extremely expensive - second in highest monthly cost to payroll. I feel as if I dodged a major bullet.

I always promoted first from within and had a reputation that we treated employees very well - the harder you worked, the more you could earn. Everyone seemed happy for the most part and I took pride in that. I felt genuine anguish for my crew when I sold off the business for health reasons. But the company continues to thrive and about 90% of my old crew still works there so it all worked out well for everyone.

Humanity has risen! said:

I am sort of bothered when at the end his assistant says they're "all crowd-funded" and they're even seeking people to do snippets of work for free when Garriott is a multi-millionaire and most seemingly had to chip in for a lot before the Kickstarter started, and most probably has to keep doing it. I don't like this trend, neither do I like portraying working for free for a for-profit corporation as "working toward the greater good". InXile got people to translate their game in multiple languages for free as well.

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What the hell is wrong with people? Does that mean there won't be a cut from sales in the respective countries? This could work just like literature translations, give the translator a cut from profits if you don't wanna pay up front. But doing it for free means it's done by somebody whose skill level is so low that he can't generate any money with it. Sure tells me something about the quality. Translation for games is one hell of a job. Should be done by a small team, the context has to be checked more often than not, if there is VO you have to listen to that, it has to be checked in sequence and in-game ... I'm curious if they had free interns writing the story and dialogue as well.

InXile provided each contributor who did 200 Strings I think with a free copy of the game.
They also have a professional team which checks these translations for consistency and so forth. There is quite a detailed guideline for translating.

I am pretty sure there won't be translated voiceovers. They are hard to do and expensive. Divinity Original Sin didn't translate voiceovers either.

And about a price reduction: If you are german and buy a game where you don't have any translated version you don't get a price reduction either.
Several Indie games do not have translations. They take quite a lot of effort(=money), especially in RPGs.