Comment on The 31 Devs Fired Before They Could Finish GTA6

ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Any work that satirizes wealth or corporate greed, made by a public company, is almost definitionally hypocritical.

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  • real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    See also: Deus Ex

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    • t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      To be fair, the original Deus Ex is more anti-authoritarianism than it is anti-capitalist in the motivations of the villains. Grey Death wasn’t done for economic purposes, it was literally a means to kick off a worldwide eugenics experiment. They used the Ambrosia vaccine to select who lives, not really to make money.

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      • real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        In the end the company that made it got bought by a massive public company using Saudi money. Double whammy

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• real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I can almost imagine them making some ai-centered merch based on cliffford from gta online

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