Responsibilities of the Consumer in the Entertainment Industry?

[eliasfrost]

Point is this:
Developers of course don't care so much about the profit (as long as it is ok). They love their job and they want to create the best game possible. That applies to other professions as well. It is the companies that want to maximize profits and you can't really blame them because if they don't make enough money they are going to close.

Basically this, I admire developers who have the backbone to stand up for their creative integrity but at the same time I don't see the problem with making money as that's the only way to make new games.

The problem with the AAA market though is that the creative vision of the developer has to go through numerous stages of compromises due to large team sizes, the publisher demands and the restricted development time. With such a burden it's often easy to forget that you are creating art and it becomes more a challenge to keep yourself in line with the restrictions set upon you.