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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The devs are mostly not the problem with the state of AAA games today, it's the people telling them what to do in order to maximise profits.

Same as with most problems we face as a species, really.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But I was told every individual ruthlessly and insatiably acting solely out of greed for personal gain โ€” regardless of ethics, morality, or empathy โ€” was the greatest, most efficient, bestest, freedomest thing to have ever existed?

Why would corporate sociopaths lie? What could they po$$ibly have to gain?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Capitalism is the worst form of economics.

Except for all of the other ones that have been tried.