A minute of silence to mourn the lost art of making games with passion.

Let there be games! And games there shall be, millions of generated games.

Can I go back to the 80's please?

Loss of democracy

The capitalists and industrialists have waited for centuries to get rid of paid labor. Imagine the profits once the cost of human work gets out of the loop!

Of course the question that is left unanswered is how the economy will work there's no one left with purchasing power. But I guess the answer to this is, the same way it works now in any developing country without much of a middle class.

Yet these were the "essential workers" during the pandemic. Not the VCs, not the hedge fund managers, not the industrialists or bankers or rich housewives.

And all they got for their efforts were applauds.

Reality is that without their work all our societies would have failed and fallen.

Almost any common folks agrees that for example nurses aren't paid enough.

The real issue is that our "valuation" scheme is controlled by the wealthy not by the people and the only metric is what makes the rich richer.

You're so right.

You can already see how the same thing has played out with computer games. With the modern engines such as Unity almost anyone can make a game. And almost everyone suffers.

And as a result there's now a million games most of which are poor quality asset flips. Everybody suffers, creators and consumers. Race to the bottom where the bottom has been reached. Prices are zero and earnings are zero.

If 15 years ago an indie game dev would allocate 80% to making the game and 20% to marketing etc. Today that will not get anything but it's much better to spend 20% on the game and 80% on the marketing, SEO optimization and attention harvesting. It's a shouting match where it's all about winning the shouting match not producing the best content.

Another race to the bottom.