this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
2407 points (97.6% liked)
Political Memes
5405 readers
3409 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Why are we demonizing game dev for trying to eat?
Because it doesn't go to devs it goes to the pocket of publisher's ceos.
I legitimately think they just mean publishers and board shareholders. Most (read most, there are also plenty of devs with retard level hot takes on twitter about their constituents, and their clear jealousy of a better product) devs hate the features they have to implement.
If you wanted to eat, you wouldn't leverage your $40k college degree for a $30k code monkey job at one of EA's digital sweatshops.
This isn't about somebody "trying to eat". Devs are being paid by the publishers either way (until they get fired of course). Monetisation and "games as a live service" are implemented to increase profit for shareholders. Gamepublishing is already the largest entertainment industry, so this is just about adding more profits to already extreme profits.