In the gamer spaces I've been before the launch, everyone have this "siege" mentality where they preemptively assumes that any kind of criticism must have come from "journos" and SJWs who wants to tear down the game for not conforming to an "agenda". Like the whole epilepsy thing where capital Gs lost their shit to a benign advisory.

Browsing the cyberpunk sub is a treat. still going to pirate it tho

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The reason CDPR pushed out the game early is because their shareholders are spooked by Covid and are worried that a recession will kill the games industry so they wanted to get it out before Christmas.

      A publicly owned games company wouldn't need to answer to shareholders in the same way. They also wouldn't treat their employees like shit like CDPR has been. State employees would also have a game dev union that would allow the actual developers to have negotiating power not just for their own salary, but also for the direction of the game.

      There's also the public domain aspect, the game would be released directly to public domain and whatever engine they made would have to be open source so modding would be insanely easy and if the game was broken or had issues it could be maintained by the fans without hacky solutions.

      Open sourcing a big AAA game would also create a great community for people to get together and learn how the games work. Think about how the open source community is so good at coming together and teaching people things. This would be the same, but for game development wothout the need for purchasing an expensive license to get access to dev tools.

      I also threw in the "and America could have all this for 0.01% of our military budget" ($700Million/year).