Fair points. However, I'm still at a loss as to who is going to pay the developers for their skills in your scenario. Why would an entity pay for their skills in the first if they cannot turn that skill into something they can make a profit on? barring artistic and volunteer efforts, if people will no pay for the end product, the middle men will not pay for the workers.
I especially enjoy your idea of a model that would allow "millions of individual gamers to fund developemnt." Isn't that what already happens when people buy a copy of the game?
Granted, there's no reason to believe we've found the one and only distribution method, but what model actually works better?
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Fair points. However, I'm still at a loss as to who is going to pay the developers for their skills in your scenario. Why would an entity pay for their skills in the first if they cannot turn that skill into something they can make a profit on? barring artistic and volunteer efforts, if people will no pay for the end product, the middle men will not pay for the workers. I especially enjoy your idea of a model that would allow "millions of individual gamers to fund developemnt." Isn't that what already happens when people buy a copy of the game? Granted, there's no reason to believe we've found the one and only distribution method, but what model actually works better?