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Quote by Steve Gaynor

“When you're working on a game that has a budget of tens of millions of dollars and you have to sell millions and millions and millions of copies to break even, you have a lot more layers between you and the audience. You have a marketing department, and there's a different marketing department for every continent, and the parent company has stockholders, and all that kind of stuff.”

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Steve Gaynor

Steve Gaynor, born on April 22, 1982, is a renowned independent game developer from the United States. His works are known for their unique game design philosophy and profound storytelling, with his most famous titles being 'Bastion' and 'The Witness'. Although his career is relatively short, his influence in the gaming industry is undeniable. more

“For me, Yves Saint Laurent is a hero because he fought his whole life against illness. Maybe the only way to fight this illness for him was to make it positive with creation. Otherwise he would have been lonely or in the hospital. He had so many issues with alcohol, drugs, and everything, this explains a lot about his necessity to create.”

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“A game that a lot of critics like is not necessarily a game that enough players like to be able to make back an investment of tens of millions of dollars.”

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Author:Steve Gaynor

“I think that the good thing about working smaller and being a smaller company that doesn't have to make as much to make money back is that you don't have to worry about, well, critics like this and they'll tell people to buy it, but millions of people might say, 'Oh, well I'm not interested in that subject matter' and we're sunk.”

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Author:Steve Gaynor