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Penny Arcade - Comic - Gaming The System
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Gaming The System
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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(before anyone gets their knickers in a knot: facetious)
Edit: maybe it's a veiled reference to Musk has he done something extra horrible lately, I try not to pay much attention to him?
When watching the news, you don't get to Not hear the stories that have already happened before. The world needs to renew their knowledge of lessons every generation. I've left quite a few games due to pay to win models ruining them, sometimes halfway through them (cough, overwatch, cough).
Maybe I assumed this SH spin off is single player and P2W is somewhat less bad in a single player context. It's like that comic where gabe spends $20 on a mount and it's single player so he's "not showing that shit off in Ironforge".
Funny with everything I hate about what they did to overwatch esp with 2, the new business model isn't really a problem for me, it's not P2W all that crap you could buy was cosmetics. It's just you could earn the cosmetics honestly before and they removed that which was a bummer but not why I left. Ieft because 5v5 is just too damn small and the entire direction of the game had been just garbage since at least Role Queue. I'm still pissed about them changing Sym.
Pay to win game models = politics / ultra elite rich society etc
There. Frog's dead. Call it.
I guess we'll find out when the post goes up
Uh okay putting my phone down for a while not sure where I was going with that except to be more thoughtful. Politics needs to calm down several degrees.
Or tax them back into reality.
What is this, who are you arguing with
This is not a game letting you buy a gun (partly because by many definitions, it's not a game. It's a webseries). It's a narrative letting people buy control over how the story plays out. Other people get to buy the right to change the story you watch. Which I guess isn't exactly a difference in kind because someone buying the fancy gun and shooting me with it is a form of them buying control over my experience.
Still, this is once again demonstrating that if we can dream a way corporations will ruin art by the ways they monetize it, they will figure out a way to do that, but worse. In light of how quickly and dramatically movie studios change course in response to feedback, I posited a dystopian nightmare where every person sits down to watch a movie and gets one custom made to what the algorithm assumes they want from the story. Konami considered this and thought, "yes, that, but how about instead of a movie custom made to you (which is a bad enough idea already), what about a movie custom made to the whims of the highest bidding trolls and/or whales".
Well you can already buy ad space...
Again, you can make an argument that it's not a difference in kind (though I'm not sure this is a particularly reasonable argument to that effect), but it's absolutely a difference in scope and a pretty big one.
edit: my sarcasm detector requires calibration
I should put more smileys in my posts...
I'm not sure what you think your point was; the uber rich really are to blame for a ton of bad shit, and they can all but literally buy votes.
Okay, to be specific, lobbying is bad and should be illegal in a system that purports to be democratic.