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‘Stop Killing Games’: Demands for game ownership must also include workers’ rights (theconversation.com)
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[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I keep seeing this same website posted on Lemmy and it's always the same thing. A click bait title that makes unnecessary connections between two things attached to an article that just regurgitates basic concepts without adding anything. All the paragraphs are one, maybe two sentences so the whole thing feels like reading a series of tweets instead of an actual article.

Maybe it would bother me less if this was poised less as the opinion of the authors and instead was just objective reporting on SKG. SKG has press materials available for that purpose that The Conversation is choosing not to use. Heck, they could even include some statements from game publishers or government officials. It's still a good thing that they are spreading awareness of the movement, but I'm really confused as to what kind of person consumes and enjoys this website.

It's frustrating because I largely agree with their sentiments. I support Stop Killing Games, and I support worker's rights, but this article is just... Bad. It doesn't even make a connection between SKG and the working environemt- it just makes a claim that such a connection exists and leaves that claim unsubstantiated. Such a connection DOES exist, these authors just fail to communicate that.