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Cliffski's Blog - Kickstarting inequality.
Kickstarter is the absolute poster-child for inequality amongst gamers, based on income. Now I am definitely not a raging socialist, but I know a lot of gamers are, and I find it a bit weird that it doesn’t bug them that when these kickstarter games ship, not only will gamers with more money that them be swanning around with better outfits and weapons, (This already happens in F2P games), but some of the NPC’s will have the names of the ‘wealthy’ backers. Some will even have their digitized faces in the game. Elite is actually naming PLANETS after people who back the game with a lot of money.
Gamers say they hate in-game product placement and advertising. It compromises the game design for the sake of money. I agree. So why are we deciding that the best way to name our planets or design the appearance of our NPC’s is to put that part of game design up for auction? Why should gamers who are wealthy get more influence over a game that those who flip burgers for a living? The cold hard economic reality of the real world is bad enough without shoehorning it into games too.
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Nov 26, 2012, 19:48 |
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eRe4s3r wrote on Nov 26, 2012, 11:20:
And you know what, we are saying this to the same people every single god damn time. You'd think they have Armor Resistance 9000 vs reading comprehension or some shit like that...
*sigh*
Likely they view the ones they debate with to be just as irrational and just as unwilling to listen to reason. It's the internet in the modern age.
Me, I have given up worrying about who is right and who is wrong and simply hope that whatever does come of the fiscal cliff negotiations may actually get the economy moving in the right direction again, however slowly. As for the socialism discussion, I really don't care anymore. Socialism, capitalism, communism... whatever system you choose is only as good as the people in charge. Which is why it hardly matters to me at this point how you define what we are or where we are headed. Get term limits for all Congressmen, Congresswomen and federal judges passed into law and then maybe I'll start feeling hopeful again. |
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