Digitally Downloaded writes: "So here's the dangerous idea I'm going to suggest; it's time for the games industry to admit that it can be dangerous. Just like film can be dangerous. Just like a serial killer might own some particularly nasty books, it's time for the games industry to mature and admit that it's a part of the world. In other words; it's time for the games industry to admit that it is making art, and art is sometimes associated with bad things happening in the world. And that this is, on balance, a good thing because the games industry will also inspire some of the greatest thinkers over the next couple of hundred years."
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
"The best games of the year and the creative teams behind them were in the spotlight at the grand award ceremony of the German Computer Game Award 2024." - German Computer Game Awards.
Sure buddy... You're trying to tell me it has a deeper story than goat 🐐 simulator 4000?!?!?. I wanna give bg3 a shot but my brain is burnt out on long games
Violence Sexism or even Racism, they all belong in movies, and so do should they in video games.
End of story.
Now all you butthurt pussies/feminists or racial excuse muppets should just start your own company's and make some counter products, instead of trying to nerf and poison the industry "we" made and love.
That was actually a very good article, though I'm not sure I agree with a couple of points.
I do however agree with the fact that, as games are capable of stirring emotions through visual impact and clever story telling, then they are also capable of stirring negative emotions and reactions. We all have ultimate responsibility to ourselves and our actons though, so the concept of 'blame' is a shoddy one.
And I dont think many retailers sell COD to 10 year olds - due to the age rating it's illegal and lands them heavy fines. The problem here is parents deciding to ignore the age rating, or not communicating with their children properly.
Perhaps as games become more readily recognised as art, then this might hopefully change
Encouraging the people trying to exploit a tragedy to expand their own political power based on the demonstrably false premise that more laws (regulating mental health screening, gun purchases, video game content etc,) automatically means more security at the supposedly reasonable cost of consumer freedom is a very bad idea. Slap them down and do it fast unless you want the USA to be like Germany or Australia. Criminals generally don't obey laws and law abiding people generally don't commit murder.