man101 posted...
If you can't afford to pay for a vital component of what you're trying to do you either need to fundraise or take out a loan, or negotiate with a subcontractor directly for some alternative arrangement. If none of those options work, maybe your idea isn't marketable and doesn't deserve to be made.
There's no excuse for a business of any size to just cut out part of the process in creating a product. If you aren't willing to make an effort to pay someone for their work, why should anyone pay you for yours? Maybe if you couldn't afford to pay an artist for your game and use AI instead then maybe I'm too poor to buy your game and I'll pirate it.
Good luck pirating a board game.