Comment on Just Stop Oil protestors interrupt UK’s biggest games event EGX

• teolan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Well you have ever more expensive hardware that uses ever more reolsources to run ever more expensive games that are ever more buggy and ever deeper into the uncanney valley.

  Mobile gaming on the other hand is filled with shitty addictive games filled with ads and micro transactions to scam children and the elderly out of their money. Not that desktop/console games don’t also have addictive micro transactions either.

  If this doesn’t feel stupid to you I don’t know what does.

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  • wombatula@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    You’re taking the worst examples of a massive industry and misrepresenting them and demonizing them to make your point. You are deliberately misrepresenting one of the largest media industries (if not the largest) to strengthen your argument.

    Hardware has become cheaper, games on average have become cheaper, games are not “ever more buggy” that’s a symptom of AAA games being made by giant corporations, no idea wtf you are even bringing up “the uncanny valley” for that has no bearing on the conversation in any way, mobile gaming is very much its own thing and nearly every person I know that calls themselves a “gamer” has nothing to do with the type of game you are describing, and micro transactions are easily avoided if you don’t play shitty corporate games.

    Almost every single complaint you made is exclusive to AAA games made by greedy corporations. Meanwhile myself and most “gamers” I know largely play independent games with no microtransactions, no massive system requirements, and do so on older systems.

    The only stupid thing to me right now is the post I am replying to.

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    • teolan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      It’s the worst but it’s also where most of the money goes…

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