Memes @lemmy.ml алсааас [she/they] @lemmy.dbzer0.com 12mo ago

Smh they made video games political

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/7643915

As always in capitalism, video games have largely deformed from an art form into just another means to generate profit for large corporations

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micro-transaction rule

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Smh they made video games political

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Bollocks, any decent game needs a fuck ton of capital to develop

Please share all the greatest communist games

Agree that loot boxes suck, they are gambling, not gaming

Edit. Yes, Tetris. One game made in 1985. Brilliant example Tankards.

So the score so far for games made:

Communism - 1

Capitalism - 831,000
- Tetris enters the chat
- No, games require labor to develop.
  
  The capital pays for the labour, unless you have people who can work for free.
  
  Within the confines of capitalism I would probably agree. But under socialism, production happens independently of capital accumulation.
- Because capitalism was the first time money existed lol
  
  What? Are you saying the video game industry predates capitalism? Lol
- Minecraft
  
  Terraria
  
  Astrox Imperium (this is a single player version of EvE Online, so definitely not for everyone)
  
  Dyson Sphere Program
  
  Factorio
  
  UFO:AI (admittedly this is a FOSS XCOM game that started as a clone of XCOM Apocalypse, and morphed into something bigger)
  
  All developed by either a single person, or tiny teams with basically no start up capital. I'm sure I can find more, since the FOSS list of games is enormous.
  
  Labor develops society. Capital enshittifies society.
- That’s like saying only Disney can make movies. Cause they have capital.
  
  not rly, you don't have studio level funding if you don't optimize (the content) for revenue. same with large/aaa level games
  
  edit: according to George Lucas, filmmakers in the USSR had more artistic freedom than he had when making Star Wars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWqvaMEFIdI
  
  Anyone can make a movie, but you can't make a big budget movie without a big budget.
- Capital doesn't cease to exist under communism, guy. It just stops being controlled by one person.
  
  Yes, it gets mismanaged by central government
  
  👏....👏...👏
- A few (good and one time buy) games off the top of my head (is that how you use the expression/idiom?):
  
  Obviously commie games:
  
  Disco Elysium
  
  Cruelty Squad
  
  Might or might not be commie, but definitely progressive:
  
  Bioshock series
  
  honourable mentions:
  
  Vitoria 3 (who would have thought that a democratically controlled and publicly owned economy would be meta? does have a nasty dlc policy tho)
  
  Partisans 1941 (you play the story of soviet partisans on the eastern front, what more is there to say?)
  
  everything from the studio "Kremlingames" (they make political sims about eastern block countries, without glorifying them)
  
  Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic (eastern block "City: Skylines")
  
  VA-11 Hall-A (good vn in a cyberpunk dystopia, does not rly have a political theme tho iirc)
  
  Missing Tetris!
- Disco Elysium
- Cave Story
- Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks
- If you're not trolling you're stupid af
- Stardew Valley
- You can get that money back by making a good game and charge for it, no need for dark pattern and lootboxes.
- Wolfenstein?
  
  Edit because I thought of a real one. Tetris.
- Sure but does it need that money when it's released or is it simply there because of publisher greed?

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