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Originally Posted by SackAttack
My guess is, they explicitly state it to keep the Big Boys honest. No, it doesn't hurt EA's bottom line significantly if they have to pay $20k or whatever to patch the game, but it's incentive to get it right the first time.
They can waive it for indie developers to reduce the burden of publishing for the Little Guys.
They can't do it the other way around, though, because if it's not contractually specified, they don't have a stick to hit the Big Boys with.
It's only a guess. I very much doubt anybody from Sony would verify that, but it passes my smell test. It's there to discourage fuckery from the bigger publishers but it doesn't, in practice, get applied to the smaller fish.
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I'd be surprised if the EAs and Bethesdas sign the same agreement that the 2-3 developer shops do. Between big companies, almost nothing is boilerplate since corporate lawyers get involved.
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