Late Stage Gaming
What's great about combing open source with creative commons is how similar to the Fediverse how everything is federated into different servers, the media, and the games based on it are also federated. With different parties involved in the projects. Here is a real world example you can play and view right now. 1. creative commons example. The Pepper&Carrot web comic is under a creativecommons license meaning generally you can download, share, view, make your own version of it. (including animated and video games) 2. open source game projects based on a creative commons media. Some talented developers took this creative commons property and made some cool open source games you likely won't find in any Linux Repository. https://oneiricworlds.itch.io/pepper-carrot-potion-of-flight Pepper-carrot potion of flight is a cool 3D exploration type game with anime like visuals. Pretty cool. The link provides both the download and a Youtube video of the gameplay. and another nice looking open source 2d endless runner game with 2D animated sprites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvC1P6rXTQg Pepper&carrot endless runner game, is also based on the creative commons web comic Pepper&Carrot. When everything is freely licensed, the games and the media content itself and is federated between different creators, you get a lot of free video games under an open source license.
Video games are expensive even "free to play" games. You need to buy an expensive game console or PC that can run the games made in the modern day. Then, some games can cost upfront now $70 or more dollars. Then you got to buy the dlc, and the micro-transactions to get anything meaningful done on the game. Some free to play games have paywalls you'l eventually run into to either progress, or to get more of the game such as cosmetics. Open source games on the other hand are typically free for anyone with an internet connection and a device that can run the game, can play for free with hidden fees, or dlc, Micro-transactions. and no ads. In fact the closest thing you get to cost when playing a more demanding open source game to you is the device (some cases, the Monitor) and the internet connection even if just temporarily to download the game. In Super Tux Kart, you got a modern ish looking game, opensourced, and is free and legal for anyone to collectively download and share this opensource game. Being an opensource game. What would you pick capitalist games, or open source games? Some might believe there's only a handful of open source games especially if you only play them from the Linux repositories. Some websites might have creator putting their open source games on them, some of these might even be might even be playable in your web browser with html5.
He's right. If you want a quick 101 over why modern games are bad watch the full video
Remember when Dong Nguyen delisted the game because he was astounded by the immediate wealth and cultural relevance of his game as well as how addictive it was to kids, and wanted nothing to do with it? Well the trademark is considered abandoned now and so was swooped up by Gametech Holdings. My man didn't even get his bag at the end of it all.
Late stage gaming is a phenomenon characterized by the following: - rampant toxicity in the gaming community; - diminishing content on launch; - deteriorating quality of gameplay, story, narrative, or both; - corporate power of gaming corporations continue to expand unchecked; - profits continue to rise; - new and innovative games continue to get obscured by low quality slop; - rising costs in games and the hardware/software to run games; What else did I forget? Let me know down below
1. Do not say "gaming is dead" . That statement is the single most dangerous threat to gaming because it promotes nihilism. Just because a studio fucked Halo or other games up doesn't mean gaming is dead because there is still demand for it even for the god awful abortions that are Halo 4 and 5 but because some of the community is so barin-rotted by nihilistic doomerism they don't know what to do. Instead of screeching like a banshee over gaming is dead, take the gold pill and promote good games to the younger generations like The Master Chief Collection or Ultrakill, or People Playground, whatever good game you have you mast encourage it to the younglings so they understand why gaming is such a dire state. 2. Encourage gamers to take action where possible. Helldivers II narrowly avoided ruin when Sony pressured the devs to require a PS account to play it and got rightfully flakked for it. A lot of gamers in some Halo modding Discords I am in support unions and are fairly progressive barring the liberal bs. Although this sounds weird, I recommend you create curator groups specifically to promote good games no one has even heard of like Ultrakill or People Playground. 3. Push back against bad narratives. Be it anti wokeness or "game bad because of bullshit reason number 3019", you need to push back against them, especially "gaming is dead" and "muh rose tinted glasses" bullshit. We need to get gamers to focus on pushing back against the big studios or get the younger generations to know why gaming is in such a terrible state.
Hmm... It's almost as if there used to be a currency that could be infinitely minted so that people wouldn't have to beg. What was it called again? Toks? Tacks? Tex?
Quick Disclaimer: even though Batakanta use the R with no ableism intended, it's still not a good look given what he's actually trying to say ""gaming is dead" is a brain-dead take". Regardless, it isn't just capitalists that are ruining gaming, people who publish gaming is dead videos are also part of the problem by encouraging the good parts of the gaming community to quit or be consumed by nihilism, leaving only shills, consoomers, whales, marveloids, and the god awful neo-puritans (i.e. Anti-woke).
People publish bullshit videos rambling about how gaming is dead or dying or not fun anymore whatever bullshit. I argue that these types of videos are far more dangerous specifically because it encourages gamers to simply give up as opposed to pointing out problems and pushing back against what is ruining the game. I've seen this happen with Halo Infinite, and CoD Mobile where not enough people pushed back against problems with those games.
For the life of me I cannot pinpoint exactly when late stage gaming started to kick off.
Even though capitalism ruined gaming, it isn't dead. Why else would half the world play a video game at least once a day?
This is what gaming has devolved into.
More like how capitalism ruined gaming
I'll explain this as quick as I can. Basically the bourgeoisie that own the major studios are so obsessed with profit that they make blatantly unsustainable decisions like overmonetization and shipping unfinished games every few years. Now look what's happening, the studios have no choice but to lay off employees to recoup the costs they inflicted upon themselves and the worst affected are the fired employees naturally. This is honestly infuriating and insulting as someone who's been a massive video game fan since 2019 because the franchises I took a liking to (especially Halo) had countless labor and talent (stretching decades in some cases) have been completely gone to waste publishing cookie cutter generic dogshit games for the c suite's next payday. Indies are no better. They also suffer from the problem of shipping unfinished games but unlike their AAA counterparts, they suffer from genuine lack of time and resources to deliver games in a timely manner. So the whole "go indie" is basically lesser evil. Come to think of it Capitalism actually enables and rewards such incompetence as long as profits are high.