AMillionNames

It's an uphill battle. Better to focus on allowing players to police themselves in close knit community servers.

The government obsessed with getting you to fill "race" and "ethnicity" on their forms does this? Say it isn't so.

To fight disinformation, you first have to know what disinformation is, and the people being activists don't really care about how much of a hypocrite they are acting as or on what vague presumptions they are or aren't acting on. My suggestion, do what Cambridge Analytica did and has continued to exist under Emerdata and competitors, but make the data collected and the inferred relations visible to all so that people can see their surrounding and other people's surroundings and get a notion of how and why they might be getting affected by them. Instead, we have people arguing that keeping functionality already visible to admins, and easily subject to manipulation, but hidden to the rest of the users, like upvotes and downvotes, should be kept hidden in social networks supposedly intended to be more transparent. Not even going to bring up some of the people leading those networks. I have little hope.

I'm trying to stay away from MMOs, which is were all these practices were really born.

Piecing this to what they've also said elsewhere, I'm just going to assume that GTA6 will be sold as a service.

Because it's about greed, not culture. And anything having to do with culture has itself been traditionally appropriated by greed anyway.

But there was a sequel to Okami, it just wasn't as popular.

I remember that happening with a game subscription service, and they had the decency to provide me the option of downloading an offline copy of the game when it did. What's so hard about these services at the very least allowing them the option to download an offline copy when things like this happen? They know that otherwise, they are just going to skip over to pirating entirely, right?

I never said it was a paid advert, and if I had a serious problem with it, I wouldn't have called it nice. I think the game has promise given their developers. But it's still an advert, which are largely a problem only when quality, saturation, and relevance are questionable, so don't take it as a complaint.

Nice advert.

You'll be sad to know, steamship Mickey is now in the public domain. Why can't people just continue to give companies that have already made billions their money forever!? Don't they realize that they are never allowed to base themselves off of the culture they've grown surrounded by!? Vague accusations should be enough to take these guys down on the ethics scale.

Talk about projecting ...