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

  • pingveno@lemmy.ml
    4·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Everyone gets a lootbox.

    The lootbox contains one poor quality item.

    You get it two years after launch.

  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    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

    • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

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

  • freijon@feddit.ch
    11·
    1 year ago

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

    • Dr. Jenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tubeEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • this@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    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·
      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
      01·
      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