First section would be about how existing as a tool for corporate profit harms the medium. It'd talk about things like concentration of the industry under a handful of companies, predatory microtransactions, the rise of subscription-based platforms where players never really own the games they play, how series like Call of Duty serve as propaganda for the American military industrial complex.

Second section would discuss how video gaming might be different under socialism, based and my own experiences with other nonprofit hobbyist developers - artistic expression over spectacle, an end to predatory monetization models, making the hobby accessible to people who can't afford expensive consoles or gaming PCs, etc.

  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Games, especially but not exclusively AAA games, are incredibly weird because you often have genuine attempts at art stapled to the most nakedly predatory and commercial systems. It's like if War and Peace had a MLM pyramid scheme interpolated into it