Experimental RPG developer Summer Eternal: 'We're giving away 5% of our studio to you, the Players' in order to 'mend the trust broken in this industry a thousand times over'

Experimental RPG developer Summer Eternal: 'We're giving away 5% of our studio to you, the Players' in order to 'mend the trust broken in this industry a thousand times over' Maybe it's time for something new. "As opposed to shareholding structures we're all used to, the Summer Eternal governance model is slightly different, and based on the FairShares idea that the structure of the studio should reflect all the stakeholders of the studio. This includes the managing cooperative, our contributor cooperative with employees and freelancers, the investors, but also, most radically, players as well." Further down the page on the player co-op announcement: "Usually, consumer cooperatives are organisations where consumers own the enterprise they buy from, but in our case, we opted for the consumers to be in a non-profit organisation instead, meaning the players do not extract profit for themselves, but they can choose where the organisation’s income is invested. 2026 games: All the upcoming games Best PC games: Our all-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPS games: Finest gunplay Best RPGs: Grand adventures Best co-op games: Better together Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.