[Suggestion] Idle Animation

[Sam]

But in the end, if you think that libre software is plainly unable to compete, that'd be an indictment of the model itself.

Ah, not to be disrespectful to Libre Software in general! It can compete on many levels, but not on the graphics side, which is too work ressource intensive.

Modability. Portability. Longjevity of online services. Innovative gameplay mechanics. A certain unpolishedness which gives the game edges... up to crazy, wacky stuff. They can risk to please to a niche audience. They don't have to look for big numbers of players. They don't have to make a profit. Those are some strengths of Libre Software.

I respectfully disagree, ultimately it’s bound by the same forces as any other projects and not being commercially viable is often not sustainable. If we look at all free and open source projects that got very successful (such as Blender, Krita, Godot) they are run as quasi commercial projects with sponsoring, fundraising and so on. Otherwise our very talented devs will just leave for greener pasture.