The commercial video games industry is more than 50 years old, yet there is still the sense that it is struggling to fi…

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“Play is an integral part of human evolution and learning,” she says, mentioning that this is a topic she covers in her book. “Gaming, being the most refined form of play in our time, has much to offer. Instead of focusing on what gaming is not, it’s more effective to showcase its true essence. The industry’s effort to create a more diverse range of games, beyond merely violent and intense ones, will help showcase the broad spectrum of gaming as an expression of creativity.”

    • Billiam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 个月前

      Sorry, you’re correct- it’s not the reviews, but the comments on any announcement made by the devs that I was remembering.

      The lack of mouse icon next to their names means those Steam accounts don’t own the game.

      • huginnEnglish
        8·
        5 个月前

        I wonder how many of them are just bots tbh

        Cause the game is pretty inherently political. The setting is a farcical fascist govt…

        • Billiam@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          5 个月前

          It’s a coordinated effort to make those bigoted assholes seem to be a larger number than they actually are. And we can blame Steve Bannon for that.

          • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
            21·
            5 个月前

            Also everyone who participates in the narrative that “regressive are swamping the gaming industry”.

      • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        3·
        5 个月前

        I mean on the plusside, you always know that whenever anybody uses the word “woke” as if it were a real word, you can immediately add them to the blocklist or ban them. Nothing they can add has any value any more.

      • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
        16·
        5 个月前

        I see three comments, two of which mention wokeness and one of which mentions sending the dev team to re-education camp.

        None of the comments is solely about wokeness. Wokeness is mentioned in conjunction with politics.

        One of the comments wants to make sure the game stays “neutral”.

        Note that zero of these comments are complaining about diversity. To those who criticize wholeness, it is a distinct thing from diversity.

        Do you know what people are referring to when they use that word?

        • Billiam@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          5 个月前

          1. I provided a screenshot as an example. Obviously I’m not going to link to every fucking bigoted comment. Those were the top three comments; two of which were useful to my point.

          2. Note that zero of these comments are complaining about diversity

          Here, let me make one bigger for you:

          They “think” adding more diversity in the form of inclusion and LGBT representation would make the game worse, since apparently that point wasn’t as clear as, say, a fucking foghorn.

          1. Do you know what people are referring to when they use that word?

          Yes. “Woke” means “anything that threatens my worldview of white masculine superiority and reminding me that non-white, non-straight, non-male people exist and should be represented in art hurts my fee-fees.”

          But sure, explain how it’s really about “ethics in gaming journalism”.