In the mid 70s Eric Idle (from Monty Python) had a Beatles parody band called The Rutles, and created a television mockumentary in 1978 called ‘All You Need is Cash’, and this was probably a pretty big influence on Spinal Tap in the early 80s.
This will bring in a FLOOD of new money for the developer. I had a really hard time enjoying the game when I bought it about a year and a half ago, and the rather lame graphics was the biggest letdown. The non-artist solo developer luckily realized the obvious solution to this issue (hire 1 or more actual artists), and now I really look forward to playing this some more. It’s a cool game, and should be a lot more enjoyable to me, partially because I’m a game artist myself.
I’m the sure this update has cost the developer well under a million dollars, and will result in several million dollars or more income, and a nice reputation boost for the game and the developer overall. Good for them!
This article has some elements of truth, but skips over some important stuff. In particular, the odds of making a living writing books when on salary, writing the books for a big company or celebrities etc, are vastly higher than just writing your own books. You don’t have to beat insane odds if someone hires you for 70k/year to write books…you simply make that 70k/year. It’s the same as e.g. people working in the video game industry. The odds of earning a middle class income as an Indie Game developer are super bad, but there are many thousands of people working salaried jobs in the mainstream AAA game industry who are definitely ‘making a living’.
Also, this is nothing new. There is a reason ‘starving artist’ is a common term. For centuries, a lot of the most well known people in all creative fields were people who already had money when they started e.g. nobility, and some of those people were able to become famous, largely because they didn’t have financial pressures that the vast majority of people had.
I’d give a separate extra upvote for the cat participating, if I could!