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Smh they made video games political (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks

[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, games require labor to develop.

[–] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The capital pays for the labour, unless you have people who can work for free.

[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 1 points 1 year ago

Within the confines of capitalism I would probably agree. But under socialism, production happens independently of capital accumulation.

[–] rando895@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Because capitalism was the first time money existed lol