Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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That's a bit fuzzy. Half-Life had a budget of around $1M back in 1998 under its original publisher Sierra On-Line. It had to be saved by Gabe Newell, who went out of pocket to keep it afloat.
This, compared to peer AAA titles like FF7 ($145M), Shenmu ($47M), and Wing Commander 4 ($12M) made it significantly underweight. Even Game Freak's break out title "Pokemon" is estimated to cost north of $10M. As Sierra On-line was a historically famous publisher on the brink of bankruptcy, it's debatable whether their dying gasp constitutes a "legit" indie title or not.
But whatever you can say about the original, the sandbox of second-tier mod games that it spawned - Counterstrike, Team Fortress, Day of Defeat, Natural Selection - certainly qualify.