Are we doing the right thing here

Even if you could force publishers into that position adding another requierment, union membership, to get your games published dosn't seem like the answer.

Besides if you have gumption to start and run a successful union you certainly could self publish instead.

Not to sound pessimistic, more pragmatic...
The collective would need a contact point between itself and the audience. The most likely occurrence would be a website which in itself has financial & logistical weight. Would anyone of us be willing to invest a few thousand dollars on a game catalog site?

How other design collectives do it is largely by either creating network associations (working in tandem with distributors) or production houses (working directly with clients).

simpson

It looks like a simple pre-order system which several publishers already use.

So it's like if the believers were actually investing money into the product (like buying shares) that could be indeed interesting.

In another thread, somebody said that Hasbro where only accepting submissions from brokers. Maybe we could try to get a dedicated broker for the whole BGDF . It gives the broker a good pool of submissions and it gives some reputation to BGDF at the same time. Finally, BGDFers don't have to search for a broker since their forum has one.

That could be a way to combine resources.

If we all lived at the same place, I would have promoted financing material to produce games and sharing the equipment, but unfortunately it is not possible yet. Well until teleportation exist.