California State Senator Leland Yee makes a statement that gamers should not defend the gaming industry.
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.
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" -
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"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.
Oh boy, his head is way too far up his butt. Gamers will quiet down when you idiotic politicians stop being so ridiculous about our hobby.
These lawmakers and politicians don't know squat..
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"he introduced the 2005 bill that made sales of M rated games to minors a crime, which was later struck down by the Supreme Court."
Well he was right there. It should be a crime. That's the issue. He needs to appeal that and have it reinstated.
i want politicians to shut up while i bash them.