That time Gamers demands video games to be considered as art is so they can pretend that they're more profound than they actually are, but once they realized that games being art means that its open to criticism is when they did 180 and gaslights everyone into thinking that they never want such thing.
In my experience, the "games are actually art" thing peaked in the days of Jack Thompson, Brown v. EMA, and Roger Ebert in the 00s, when the industry wanted to drill that into consumers' heads so they wouldn't get regulated.
Personally I believe games can be art, but first we have to kill all gamers.
That time Gamers demands video games to be considered as art is so they can pretend that they're more profound than they actually are, but once they realized that games being art means that its open to criticism is when they did 180 and gaslights everyone into thinking that they never want such thing.
Tell a gamer or even some devs that not all games should be fun and they'd doo doo themselves
In my experience, the "games are actually art" thing peaked in the days of Jack Thompson, Brown v. EMA, and Roger Ebert in the 00s, when the industry wanted to drill that into consumers' heads so they wouldn't get regulated.
Personally I believe games can be art, but first we have to kill all gamers.
They do a 360 and walk away**