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.
Draugr wrote on Nov 25, 2012, 14:10:Axis wrote on Nov 25, 2012, 13:50:
1. Do you understand that the rich in America pay their far share seph? Read the proof I linked, then answer.
4. You start. Name something substantial that taught you about socialism, it's history, or its current implementation and affect.
1. This is like that time Mitt Romney said he had Studies that showed that his budget works - and just like in that case, what he was talking about wasn't academic research or proof at all, they were essentially blog posts. If you need a blog post to prove your point, you've lost.
4.) No, you start, the challenge was issued to you. But I guess you can't list any history books. Considering you use editorial posts as 'proof' doesn't make this surprising at all.