How about the hundreds of open source contributors to web browsers? What about the children of the people who clean the offices of the studio that made the game? I bet I could identify about a million people who deserve a bonus here.
>Just be sure to order some McDonald’s to support them. Who knows… if we keep eating McDonald’s, they might keep producing these oddball retro gaming related projects.
>I, for one, will NEVER stop eating McDonald’s. You have my word.
...and it's also OK to wonder if that megabusiness could've paid or otherwise credited the small guy. Not that it's obligated to.
In any case, that is far off the point of my comment, which is explicit in the very first sentence. You tried flipping my argument but destroyed the context in the process.
Hell, we're long overdue for a universal basic income - such that everyone can pursue things for the sake of coolness or intellectual curiosity or whatever if they want to, without needing to worry about making ends meet.
I'm pretty sure that most developers in western countries have no problem making ends meet and freely pursue things for intellectual curiosity.
We are talking about a giant multinational corporation here, or did you miss the context?
Context should be clear now.