Um… The gaming industry did much, MUCH better before it was filled with
activists.
Capitalists. The word you’re looking for is capitalists.
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_sideffect@lemmy.world 6 days agoUm… The gaming industry did much, MUCH better before it was filled with activists.
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 6 days ago
MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 5 days ago
There’s only one maybe two good video games not made by capitalists (Tetris and Disco Elysium).
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You REALLY need to look up what happened with disco Elysium then come back and use it as an example.
MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That’s why it is “one or two”. The guys that made DE weren’t capitalists. The guys that published and sold DE were capitalists.
Regardless it’s an incredibly silly claim to suggest capitalism ruined video games when so few examples of good non-capitalist games exist
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Wrong. Gaming industry was doing fantastic before.
el_bhm@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Capitalism broke gaming twice already. Once in the 80s.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Ah yeah! Games have been free since the 80s, I completely forgot!
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Such a moronic take based on absolutely nothing.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Great counter argument, lmaooo
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s the only response required when you don’t even have any evidence, empirical or otherwise, to back up your stupid claim.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Lmao, coming from a neckbeard, that’s a positive.
You don’t even know how to speak in social gatherings yet feel powerful behind a keyboard.
Jaderick@lemmy.world 6 days ago
By what metric? Business is booming.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah all those layoffs, mass studio closures, and over 15k game jobs lost(just in 24) sure do mean business is going great!
ICastFist@programming.dev 5 days ago
Yea yea, it’s all sweetbaby and DEI fault and not corporations being greedy hellholes that only worry about quarterly profits since forever. /s
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Sbi needs to go back to the cave they crawled out of.
Since when were corporations NOT greedy? It’s hilarious you think that it’s only now that they got greedy, lmao
caseofthematts@lemmy.world 5 days ago
All of those are due to the drastic increase in jobs during covid. This is happening in many, many tech related careers. It is not because of inclusivity. Get your head out of your ass.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That’s a factor, but it’s not the only reason, jackass. Look at the games that failed and how they were backed by activists, which led to studio closures.
Ubisoft is mostly subsidized in Quebec by taxpayers, and they have their lowest profits ever because of activists as well.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
before it was filled with activists.
and exactly when was this? lol
when did all the activists take over. Pong?
Colecovision?
_sideffect@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Are you delusional? Or just naive? Open your eyes.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
so you can’t tell me when.
because you know, it’s always been that way.
what a fucking sad life that must be to lead, to know, yet deny it with every fiber of your being because you can’t accept.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Just down vote and move on. She’s just a troll with no facts or figures, she just wants your attention that Daddy never have her growing up. It was either the pole or the troll for her.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Hey I’m going to have a discussion with you because honestly she’s kind of unhinged and needs to be back on the pole.
Hey did you know that revenue from the gaming industry for the past 40-ish years went from 15 billion to 183 billion since 2022?
visualcapitalist.com/video-game-industry-revenues…
I do wonder where on that timeline woke took down the industry.
Hey did you know baldur’s Gate 3, full of inclusion, sold 15 million copies? They went woke and made a shit ton of money making a great game.
gamingbolt.com/baldurs-gate-3-has-reportedly-sold…
Did you also know that marvel rivals, that somehow idiots think it’s woke earned 130 million in it’s first month. I mean that’s a whole other capitalism conversation but still.
screenrant.com/marvel-rivals-earns-130-million-fi…
I don’t know, I know pigeons can’t play and shouldn’t play chess but can they pole dance?
_sideffect@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You don’t even want to look. You think games are failing just because or capitalism which is the dumbest, leftist excuse that you always all give when you don’t have the knowledge to see what’s truly happening.
Enjoy living in your angry little leftist bubble echo chamber.
umean2me@discuss.online 5 days ago
There are plenty of record breaking games that have released while the industry has been “filled with activists.” Many of them are even about politics, like Helldivers 2.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yes, there are good studios, when did I say there weren’t?
Stellar blade did amazingly. Good game, and no woke bs activists = profits
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Stellar Blade had a stripper as a player character, and that itself created a meta dialogue about how every other video game doesn’t
_sideffect@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Have you even played the game? No, because you’re still crying that your activist games didn’t sell well.
Play stellar blade and realize that it’s a fantastic game, combat wise and design wise.
Whateley@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Yeah, having a poc or queer character in your shitty video games is the biggest example activism since the Civil Rights Movement.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s more about the messaging. The mere presence of a POC or trans character isn’t bothersome to most people. But when that character comes with dialogue lines that make the political messaging obvious, then they’re no longer a character that happens to be non-White or trans; they’re a political prop inserted into a game to send a political message, and that can be quite irksome when all you’re trying to do is play a fantasy RPG and escape from the world for a bit, even if you actually agree with the message.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The mere presence of a POC or trans character isn’t bothersome to most people.
but some people LOSE THEIR ABSOLUTE SHIT over it lol.
fuck em, let them die angry.
ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
A bad written character is a bad written character, their dialogue could be about candies and is still a bad written character. This argument is bullshit, bad case of confirmatory bias.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 5 days ago
No, it’s not about the writing. It’s when’s a game feels like it’s preaching at you. Not the same problem at all.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Exactly. Don’t lecture us about being trans or etc.
We honestly don’t care. (Yes, a small percentage of people are actually bigots and hate gays/trans for being who they are). The rest of us just don’t want it shoved down our throats.
It’s like making a game and having the main character proclaiming: “look how straight I am! Wow I sure do love women! I’m so straight and anyone who isn’t should do pushups”.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The rest of us just don’t want it shoved down our throats.
and when you put storytelling of any kind that way, it tells me who you really are.
no one is shoving anything down your throat sweetie, you paid your money for a game before checking it out. that’s your mistake, not the devs.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 5 days ago
And yet, from the downvoting here and everywhere else this comes up, it’s clear: some people can’t take nuanced opinions on topics like this. If you object in any capacity, you’re the worst possible objector.
RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Sounds like a “I liked Star Trek before it was woke” take.
Adalast@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Oh god, I “love” those people. Same as the guy who was pissed about how woke Rage Against the Machine had become. Like bruh… Seriously?!?