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

    • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
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      Politics is a branch of philosophy about how societies should be governed. If you want to make a social commentary that is non political, you would have to avoid mentioning how society is or should be run. Also, how people should organise together.

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    Where I would love to see micro-transactions be a thing is news articles, videos, and other creative works. I’m happy to pay for someone’s work, especially if I’m not paying a bunch of overhead to some shitting credit card company. At the same time, I have no wish to pay for a $20 monthly subscription for the local newspaper in Middleofnowhere, Montana just so I can read one article.

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    Whoa whoa whoa, are you posting a meme that’s tangentially political to the Marxist Leninist meme community?

    I’m a capitalist shill and this offends me because it challenges my worldview and I don’t like that.

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      Clearly this should go on some other community with no subscribers. That way your message is neatly filed away somewhere nobody else will see it, especially me. I’m just in favor of proper sorting, that’s all! /s

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      This is outrageous.

      It’s not like there’s a perfectly functional meme community at Lemmy.world that is suitable for properly sucking off the “job creators”

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    I think a lot of Eastern European socialist states had ton of bribes (or sometimes “gifts”) to get anything done, including in some places “gifts” to your doctor.

    Unfortunately Marx didn’t eliminate all the micro transactions

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      Or you had a friend who worked at the store or the factory and could get you stuff because they liked you. A hundred friends could get you further than a hundred roubles.

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        I’ve heard that too. Connections being everything. I think those “you help me I help you” is sorta like micro transactions too.

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        I don’t know what’s their situation with corruption/bribery.

        Are you asking rhetorically meaning they don’t or seriously asking? Because if you are asking I could try to look it up but don’t know offhand.

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          I don’t tend to trust anything I hear about Cuba tbh, one way or the other.

          End the embargo and let’s see how things stack up.

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      I really tried to like it for years. Bought it on suggestion from a friend. Couldn’t enjoy a game that has a timer constantly dictating what I do and how I do it, had the same problem with Bully. Great game, if I was given free reign of my own actions instead of a time-limited version.

      Also, I’m getting a bit tired of pixel graphics, been looking at them for the better part of 30 years. Time to move on.

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    The thing is: If everyone hated it, it would not work. But sadly it DOES work.

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      Lootboxes are legalized gambling for minors. So yeah, no shit it works. Just because a thing is profitable doesn’t make it good. The opioid epidemic proved very profitable, but just like gambling for kids, doesn’t make it a thing we should accept or want for our society.

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      Well, theres “working” and theres “working well”. Capitalism is not working so well anymore and its likely going to work worse as time goes on. more things will become automated, wealth inequality (and therefore a gap in political power) will grow, and companies will keep expecting increased growth in a world of limited(and in some cases, decreasing) resources. Capitalism currently “works” in the sense that its making resources move around, but thats about all its doing for regular, non rich, non well off people(and often is not doing even that much for them). It’s simply not sustainable when unregulated, thats why we need a well regulated economy.

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    Everyone gets a lootbox.

    The lootbox contains one poor quality item.

    You get it two years after launch.

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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