> And like you on both Steam and GOG I have a backlog of hundreds of games.

The last time I found some stats (five years ago), MOST accounts had hundreds of games, most of which were never played (playtime < 2 hours, I think).

Luckily, the developer still got paid. With MagnaPlay, the developers will never get paid unless the game is played.

In other words, this looks like a bad deal for developers, while also looking like a bad deal for gamers![1]

I can't really see any way for this to take off.

[1] For gamers, the DRM is an unnecessary hurdle, and GOG solves that. The lack of titles is also a hurdle (remember, this is only for indie titles).

I don't mean to sound rude, but honestly, if this was the team's original idea for YC, then either the two co-founders are extremely qualified and talented, or YC has begun funding moonshots in the dark. It doesn't take much thinking to easily conclude that it's a bad deal for devs.

In one of PGs essays he outright said that VCs don't fund ideas, they fund people.

IOW, they decide whether the founders pitching them an idea are going to generate a return, not whether the idea being pitched will generate a return.