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Originally Posted by Matt Berkeley
IOW, unnecessary middlers (meddlers).
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It's largely unnecessary if ALL you want to do release digitally. But I don't know of any developer who's signed with a publisher just to do that. Say what you will about downloads, boxed games still sell, and deliberately cutting off a big chunk of your potential market isn't a great strategy. And the cost of producing boxed games isn't insignificant. Publishers have the money to do it, developers don't. You don't think developers wouldn't WANT to cut out the middle man if they could afford to?
