Some points:

What part of it being a problem with the industrial world at large makes this acceptable?

There's a lot of inherent naïvety in this response, most of all punctuated by the misguided libertarian/conservative mindset that anybody can make it just as long as they pull themselves up their bootstraps and really strive to be exceptional- and really let down by the refusal to acknowledge that people are treated…

well, uh, i hate to burst your bubble since it is quite nice that you apparantly worked in respectful environments, but it's definitely a problem in tech too

wow, to be honest i thought i'd more or less had it up to here with video game webcomics, but these are actually great

and, to be honest, I've never understood why. As if anybody who reads Kotaku has never heard of them? It's more interesting to focus on the comics which don't already have a supermassive following.

I'm a little weirded out by the fact that even after all the hoo-hah about people boycotting PAX because of Krahulik's transphobic remarks and/or the dickwolves thing, that here I'm seeing this noted public racist and homophobe Warrior still getting jobs off the back of people's nostalgia, at the same place, and…

I'm not arguing that. Companies invest in things and they get their product, that's great! I just wonder why the signing off of creator rights has to necessarily be part of that. Rights of the manufacture and distribution of a particular game, sure, but entire IPs? It seems wrong to me. I'm more comfortable, for…

It's a good point. I guess I just visualise a scenario where companies could maintain exclusive rights to specific games without maintaining overall IPs. With music as a comparison, the current system would seem like Radiohead having to shed the name or even their particular harmonic ideas as long as they weren't…

Okay since this has happened a lot now; claiming things are the "way they are" is an incredibly boring argument and one we all understand without it really needing to be said. I asked the question because I thought somebody might be able to give me an answer that actually speaks in favour for the system.

It's an article about a particular video. The writing is there to encourage you to watch the video. It's not a substitute. If you don't want to watch a video, go read an article which isn't about videos? Which there are plenty of?

See, that's insane. Contracts really do allow for some baffling stretches of lawmaking.

Thanks for the replies everyone. Maybe in my furor over this small peeve of mine I wasn't particularly clear; I understand that it's how "business works", I understand it's in the contracts, etc, I just see it as particularly scummy a practice that favours milking a cash cow over any particular artistic vision. It…

could somebody explain to me a practical reason why game companies (and other media companies for that matter) get to claim IPs for themselves and away from the creators? Aside from greed? Because this kind of thing infuriates me. Inafune having to blatantly rip off his own creation because he hasn't got the freedom…

people love to celebrate failure

As soon as they announced that the game would be set in San Andreas, my first thought was "they better give Flylo his own radio show"

holyshit they gave flying lotus his own station

well you see comedy is subjective and while one person may find a certain joke as being aesthetically pleasing and/or relatable, others may be unable to derive any such feeling due t-*starts barfing* mhmmmfmhfmfmhm *still barfing* mmmhhmmhmmmmhmhmhmh *will not stop barfing*

haha "Aphex Twins"

hahaha classic error