"Nick Sabalausky" <a...@a.a> wrote in message news:ielrdu$2p8...@digitalmars.com... > "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!) >
s/This is at least one/There is at least one/
