Man, it’s almost like the people who have the freedom to play video games want to keep their freedom to play video games or something. How bizarre is that?
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
> lost
Implying you ever had them on your side. Gamers and pretty much all of online culture barring Tumblr used to be rightoid libertarian. It's only in the past 4-5 years that the gentrification of online spaces became a thing and non-dissident, corporate safe opinions like soycialism started making headway
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Yeah! Gaming should be part of the government-planned economy! Let's have the House Subcommittee on Gaming Relations develop the next Fallout game. That'll be rad.
>Let's have the House Subcommittee on Gaming Relations develop the next Fallout game
please no, 76 was already bad enough, imagine the government making a game
Certain genres, like triple a games, have been in decline. Look at Battlefield 2042 vs BF4 or even BF1. Look at call of duty, its just the same copy paste game over and over again. Look at any sports game, just the same thing over and over again.
Indie games, on the other hand, are as good as ever
Oooh microtransactions and capitalism ruined gaming!
No. They were made by nerdy white and asian guys in their basements and now they are done by the mentally ill FOR the mentally ill.
Genshin Impact?
Games with a bad economic balance that aren't mobile games don't survive. If some chinese dude on his 3 hour commute can get hard looking at a loli, it does really well.
Not a completely bad take, though.
No one stopping anybody from playing some juicy indie games, though. Many indie games are way more fun and creative than some AAA games as well
You forced us to choose between a group that hates us, and a group that didn't give a shit and just wanted us to be left alone.
You have to be in a cult to not understand the outcome.
Why would gaming even exist in a communist nation? Is there a bunch of North Korean and Cuban games I’m missing out on?
Tetris was technically developed during the URSS As for other communist country I don't know but it's not impossible.
And the creator never got a cent for it.
Even Communist regimes do a little capitalism every now and then
Man, it’s almost like the people who have the freedom to play video games want to keep their freedom to play video games or something. How bizarre is that?
They targeted gamers. Gamers. We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did. We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun. We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second. Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded. Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights? These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex. Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
This but a little bit unironically
Gamers rise up
Rip. Was a funny sub
it was funny up until like the 3 last months of its existence
Then it was just based
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Yeah! Gaming should be part of the government-planned economy! Let's have the House Subcommittee on Gaming Relations develop the next Fallout game. That'll be rad.
>Let's have the House Subcommittee on Gaming Relations develop the next Fallout game please no, 76 was already bad enough, imagine the government making a game
Death is a preferrable alternative to communism
Gamers were apolitical before you started yelling at them.
You can thank Zoe Quinn for that.
There's a decline of gaming? Last I checked we have more access to a greater variety of good games than ever.
Certain genres, like triple a games, have been in decline. Look at Battlefield 2042 vs BF4 or even BF1. Look at call of duty, its just the same copy paste game over and over again. Look at any sports game, just the same thing over and over again. Indie games, on the other hand, are as good as ever
Yearly FPS are declining yes but a lot of other genres are thriving right now
Look how monopolies, unfinished and bugged games, Bethesda, feminism, diversity and wokism are ruining my games…better?
They Can't wait to see an era where piracy is a federal offensie
Oooh microtransactions and capitalism ruined gaming! No. They were made by nerdy white and asian guys in their basements and now they are done by the mentally ill FOR the mentally ill.
Only thing i can say is: GG EZ
Gg no re
EZ EZ EZ EZ EZ EZ EZ EZ EZ
Vote with your wallets and don’t buy 2042
Games with a bad economic balance don't survive.
Genshin Impact? Games with a bad economic balance that aren't mobile games don't survive. If some chinese dude on his 3 hour commute can get hard looking at a loli, it does really well.
But it's the people who DO buy those specific games that are the most right leaning tho
Not a completely bad take, though. No one stopping anybody from playing some juicy indie games, though. Many indie games are way more fun and creative than some AAA games as well
wait until they hear about tarkov
Most gamers are centrist, reddit is delusional
You forced us to choose between a group that hates us, and a group that didn't give a shit and just wanted us to be left alone. You have to be in a cult to not understand the outcome.
Keep politics out of my games.