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The game industry seems to have been heavily infected with capitalistic bullshit. It’s really sad to see what was once a fun combination of art, entertainment, nerdiness, and tech turn into another soulless cash machine.
The game industry has always been deeply entrenched in capitalism...
Look at the arcades of old. They were basically just slot machines for kids without the chance for a payout.
Were they fun? I have way more fun playing arcade games than I do most Blizzard games these days (and I have more money left after).
I'm not sure if they were or not. I wasn't around during that time. I'm more commenting on this prevailing narrative that video games were this auteur-focused medium that's just now being sullied by capitalism. That's a false narrative and I think what's really happening is that we're becoming more and more aware of just how insidious unchecked capitalism can really be and we're noticing it more and more in the things that we love. Whereas in the past, we may have been less critical or interrogative of the industry as a whole.
Agree to disagree I guess, I think it's far worse and far more prevalent.
There's tons of good indie games. And you don't even need a 2000€ PC to play them.
I'm just sitting around playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon and, while id prefer something narrative driven, it's been giving me the happies for quite a while.