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HappMacDonaldtoday at 7:20 AM1 replyview on HN

Alternately, imagine if all text in your favorite game was IP owned by some random third party that could ruin everything one or two years down the line.

Perhaps it is time for more people to invest in royalty free IP? We are seeing a bit of a tragedy of the commons type of situation going down, right now.


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Aachentoday at 7:50 AM

Sounds like one should be able to get a long way if you put down, say, 2 years of the new license fee and then never have to pay again

I guess the trouble is that game companies can't really band together and pool money to make a good font since the point is to look unique, so this only works for the largest studios. Otoh, at least for now, the smaller ones might stay below the 25k user limit