Molyneux calls on UK government to support games industry

government? We all know the queen still runs stuff there! Just talk to her!

Person comes out in favor of the government giving him a handout at taxpayer expense. Surprising?

Well considering Just Dance was on the top of the UK charts for far too long, we have to assume that something is a bit wrong in the UK industry.

That's nice.

He'll probably tell the government that bringing the games industry to the UK will bring the dead back to life, cure cancer, and turn water into liquid gold.

....and then apologize when all that doesn't happen.

Who is the rooster then? VG journalism?

The UK game industry caption should be replaced with a Molyneux caption. I swear he resembles that beggar.

When the tax incentives for families idea is dropped, then we can consider anything game related ¬_¬

Just been doing this in a Media Production lecture at my uni..

In the lecture it was mentioned that the government intervene/support the film industry more, because its a market that is hard to have a high influence in world market (specifically as American films dominate the world market atm), the games industry in the UK is apparently doing fine, and therefore needs no intervention/support.

Bottom line is that the government does recognise the games industry as a leading form of entertainment, and a form in which is doing extremely well.. which is precisely (in their opinion) why it makes little sense to give them tax cuts..

(apologies for any inaccuracies in this text, its 5:00am here and have just come back from an intense night out)

Its more complicated than most people realize. The comment which spoke to the fact that asking the Tax payers of a country to prop up companies is part of it, but only part. In my experiance more often you seen industries which large numbers of people depend on for their livelyhoods which have historically been strong contributors to the economy get subsidized to ensure they stay in place. This is done so that a pillar of your nation's livelyhood does not fall out leading to widespread unemployment and national decay. The other situation would be to install an industry into your nation, so the industrys you have historically depended on have fallen out of sustainability. You make your country an attactive place for a new growing industry to come and set up so that you build a new pillar into your economy create jobs and attract business which did not have offices in your country previously. As this can have a destabilizing effect on the world economy organizations like the World Trade Organization exist.

Short answer Moly needs to think about why subsidies exist before troubling an overburdened system by asking for cash something I am pretty sure Lionhead is not hurting for.

And to those whould flame me I understand there are other reasons for subsidies, but I don't feel that Peter has described one seeing as I don't feel the UK economy is heavily dependant on the Games Industry.

Yenrab and others.. how is asking to keep some of your own earnings stealing from people? Again, Im not sure what socialist hole you crawled out of, but I call it freedom. Thomas Jefferson Said: "A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government" This article is not talking about a bail out (Which is what socialist Governments do ala Brown/Obama) it is asking to reduce its tax burden. Wise up sir.

and the rooster is Just Dance

R: well, there is a saying: good ideas are a dime a dozen, it's the execution that counts.

Fable 2 is one of those game that polarises people: you need to be emotionally involved in the world to really enjoy it. There is a lot to be said about having a world full of people that you can influence, towns to explore and jobs and quests to do, but the implementation is basically a series of minigames from a 1980's arcade wrapped around with a 3d facade. I mean, there's only so many times you can 'make someone love you' by doing the fart emotion over and over again before it wears a bit thin, you know?

Yeah, I don't see the Gov't helping out that much.