"Daniel Gibson" <metalcae...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.37.1292790264.4748.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Caligo <iteronve...@gmail.com> wrote: >> You are absolutely right; life sucks for many people, and that's why some >> of >> them choose to play video games. It gives them a chance to escape >> reality, >> and game companies exploit this to make money. Game companies use all >> kinds >> of psychology in their games to keep you playing as long as possible. >> That >> is why to me there is no honor in game development. > >This is bullshit. >Of course there are games with that goal (WoW, ...), but this doesn't make >game >development in general "unhonorable". There are many games that are >not like this, >for example most single player only games.. you play them until the end or >until >you can't get any further and that's it.. maybe you play them again in >the future, but >it's not like a constant addiction. (I'm not saying that multi player >games are generally >more "dangerous" or anything, single player games are just an example >everybody >should be able to comprehend) >There are also game developers who openly label games like WoW "unethical", >e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Blow >
Interesting. I don't think I would go so far as to claim that WoW was unethical...just "uninteresting" ;) But that's just me. This is at least one thing the videogame world does that I do consider unethical: Proprietary/Closed platforms. But that's not just a videogame thing, of course. I consider proprietary/closed platforms in general to be unethical. (Oh crap, I think I can feel myself turning into Stallman!)