Japanese game developers face ridiculously high font license fees following US acquisition of major domestic provider. Live-service games to take the biggest blow  - AUTOMATON WEST
automaton-media.com
A change in license plans has made it up to 50 times more expensive for Japanese game developers to use commercial fonts in their games and apps.
  • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    392·
    1 month ago

    after they bought the rights to some font.

    Now That’s What I Call Capitalism

    I’m already against the concept of “buying the rights” to anything, let alone buying the rights to something then raising the cost to license it. I would be burning fucking buildings down

    • ApollosArrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      This would be an interesting comic strip. A company that has purchased all the fonts in existence, and then the artist doing the comic you are reading gets sued by the company he’s making a comic about, because he doesn’t have the rights to the font.