Could we please stop talking about other forums? There are some ugly places that focus on specific forums and talking bad about them, I don't want Meta to become one of those.
I would generally agree with you, but it is sometimes unavoidable due to "influence culture."
There are many internet publications, reputable and not-so-much, that will ride the coattails of a thread made
there.
I myself would not have heard about the latest "news" in regards to an EGS dev getting harassed if it were not for that thread. Likewise, I, too, am perplexed by the moderation methods
there, which is part of the reason why
here exists.
You can disown your parents, but you still share DNA.
There will always be a connection.
They didn't make the product for us.
They made a product for money and ultimately for themselves.
I think that's an important differentiation and something to keep in mind in our capitalist world.
Bread isn't being made to feed, it's made to earn money. And so it is being made cheap, unhealthy with sugar, artificial flavours and the magic of chemistry. Because the goal isn't too make somebody healthy, the goal is to make as much money as possible.
Car manufacturers are cheating, global warming is being dismissed, nestle thinks water isn't a human right, Bayer is the biggest and most shitty pharmaceutical company ever that willingly killed people for profit. The list is infinite.
There is not one single company taking us seriously or caring about us. Consume, consume more, make dept and die. Also shut up and swallow lies.
No idea why people think the game industry is different. Buy and if you don't buy, you are the enemy.
What's surprising to me is how many people are defending companies. They are all shit.
For gaming journalism. I guess it never managed to grow up and become serious. The ties between journalists and Devs/pubs were there from the beginning and grew over time. It's like a circle of friends reporting on each other. Nobody wants to be to harsh, after all you grew up together.
All facts.
And ppl wonder why mental health is in crisis. There are many of us who have known these things for years and there's 0 we can do about it.
I did write a long-ass rant about not doing politics or how developers should not express their worldviews (I generally disagree, and that individuals and companies should continue to talk politics and issues), but it was too rambly so I'll just say this:
We need to restore the transactional relationship between customer and developer. We're not patrons of the arts, we're buying a product. But those products will be made by people with political views, and those views will manifest themselves in the games. It's unavoidable.
But don't let yourself be guilted into supporting the nice guy indies because they're just hustling for your dollar, and some of them will take it so far that they will infuse their public persona with faux-progressive identity politics and then insert their product into the mix so that (often marginalised and impressionable) people blindly support them. And it's usually the ones who lean on their faux-progressive public personas or nostalgia over their previous works the hardest who wind up acting like the biggest cunts the second they no longer need your money.
I've been hoodwinked by it more than once, so have most of you guys. They won't stop doing it so you need to show some scruples where they aren't willing to. Just remember you're buying a product and don't do anything to "support" anyone. Love the art, not the artist.
This reminds me that I finally got around to posting my
negative review of YIIK on Steam. Won't show up in the metadata on Steam though since it was a "free" copy.
might not be a bad idea tbh
I was doing that this weekend, just playing games. Now I come in to work after taking the whole weekend off because of EVO and I come back to the industry on fire.
I
swear I've seen someone get banned for posting this after one of those patented "mod posts." Maybe it was just before the PCEra exodus?
Counter-argument: POTUS
