Comments on: That Downing Street petition http://www.bruceongames.com/2008/04/14/that-downing-street-petition/ A veteran's view on marketing games Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:07:25 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: cj http://www.bruceongames.com/2008/04/14/that-downing-street-petition/comment-page-1/#comment-1564 cj Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:40:36 +0000 http://www.bruceongames.com/2008/04/14/that-downing-street-petition/#comment-1564 Its great to see people looking to support the games industry. For those of us working in it, we work long and hard to provide quality entertainment that touches so much of our society and culture, from medical training to the military simulations, and everything in between. It would be nice for the government to acknowledge that for the most part, dev studios live on a subsistance model, and that the massive employee taxes mean that it can be very difficult to survive from project to project. Video games are one of the last growth industries on this island, and boy do we have a lot of talent in the UK. I hope that the government recoginzes this. Its great to see people looking to support the games industry. For those of us working in it, we work long and hard to provide quality entertainment that touches so much of our society and culture, from medical training to the military simulations, and everything in between.

It would be nice for the government to acknowledge that for the most part, dev studios live on a subsistance model, and that the massive employee taxes mean that it can be very difficult to survive from project to project.

Video games are one of the last growth industries on this island, and boy do we have a lot of talent in the UK. I hope that the government recoginzes this.

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