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German government wants games like Baldur's Gate 3 to 'also go on to be developed in Germany'

www.pcgamer.com German government wants games like Baldur's Gate 3 to 'also go on to be developed in Germany'

Germany started giving out federal grants in 2020 to "achieve international competitiveness" in game development.

Games @sh.itjust.works German government wants games like Baldur's Gate 3 to 'also go on to be developed in Germany'

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Why can't the german government just be happy with their most famous game developed there GOLLUM by Daedelic studio? Why do they need more?

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  Their best games (Edna, Deponia, ...) were all made when Poki was still there. During that time they made some of the best modern pint-and-click adventures.
  
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  Before that they were remembered for the video game where you sell a black woman into slavery... As an organ grinder monkey. This is just karma.
  
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- Silly me, thinking that Crysis was the most famous German game.
  
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  Gothic.
  
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- Well, Daedelic is closed. They need a new Daedelic.
  
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- In defense of this game
  
  Their music's are very very solids and now underated because no one plyaed the game (and I didn't too but go listen to them, great DND ambiance Cool link)
  
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The German government wants... Yeah and their bullshit censoring of games.

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- To be fair, it has gotten a lot better. Games rarely get censored anymore. Dying Light 2 comes to mind. The Index also has become rare, also the complete confiscation.
  
  But yes, I'm with you, the authorities have to go, the European classification should be enough!
  
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  I'll forever be salty about Carmageddon having zombies with green blood.
  
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I mean there's been a bunch of small games developed by German game studios but it's not like it's easy around here

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  Bureaucracy
  
  Arguably their chief export. Have you ever had to use SAP?
  
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- Gothic <3
  
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  You mean the studio that just at the beginning of this year died because of budget cuts of a big Corp? Not that I want to defend Elex2
  
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- It's not like Belgium does anything special either for the games industry. Their success is just due to hard work and good management by a studio that's taking the long term view and it's passionate about the work.
  
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- Crosscode!
  
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Just for context, you can't actually apply anymore and it's been like that for about a year. And that's not the first time period for which aplications are blocked.

In addition, both founding a start-up and actually applying is a lot of bureaucracy. You've probably run dry of money long before it's approved.

Lastly, I believe they mostly fund mobile games.

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- Short story time. In USA, over 25 years ago, a Russian immigrant used to give me rides down the peninsula to work in the early hours. I wondered at his ability to survive and provide for a family in our high cost of living area. He told me that applying for government and nongovernmental aid and so on was easy for him because he was used to the much worse Soviet bureaucracy.
  
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- Not only this, they cut the budget starting 2025 by a lot and only productions with >400k on their own will be qualified to apply for a state funding. Cause that will be a good reason for each state (Bundesland) to rise their funding (Berlin has some millions and Hessen 260k/year funding budget). Or at least that was one of the arguments to cut the state budget.
  
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  Don't get me started on state funding, there is none at my location.
  
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If they start saying this about The Witcher or Cyberpunk, we should get really worried.

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They have Egosoft and their X universe games. Epic sandbox galactic games. I love my X3 empires.

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Sorry, too much censorship in Germany...

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It can’t be easy with all the 5 week vacations, 37,5h work week, and basic workers rights to try to develop as much as the US dev sweatshop. Let’s not even mention ma/paternity leave.

Edit: Seems yet again I've managed to showcase a lil bit of my ignorance. Learning is fun. I’m not sure if the downvoting is happening because of my sarcasm or if my sarcasm wasn’t obvious, or for other reasons🙂.

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- To be fair baldurs gate wasn't developed in the US
  
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  I didn't know Larian was Belgian until just now. Noise.
  
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- Better working conditions does not mean worse productivity
  
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  No, it was all a bit of joke, I guess. I know from personal experience that the opposite is true.
  
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- 37,5h work week, I wish. Although I have 6 weeks guaranteed vacation, one extra day for night shifts and 2 regeneration days which are basically vacation days
  
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  I got 9 weeks vacation, work 38 hours. That's why unions matter.
  
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  Yeah I was guessing that part. It's 37.5 for me in DK. Still waiting for the 4 day work-week.
  
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