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“Nintendo is not interested in making a large amount of revenue from a single smartphone game,” one CyberAgent official said. “If we managed the game alone, we
by snarfy 8y ago
“Nintendo is not interested in making a large amount of revenue from a single smartphone game,” one CyberAgent official said. “If we managed the game alone, we would have made a lot more.”
Yes, they would have made more, at the expense of the entire industry.
- EdgarVerona 8y agoWhen we see a statement like the one that CyberAgent official made, I can't help but think of the Banality of Evil. We're so focused as a society on economic growth - and surely, these employees have financial targets and objectives they've been given that add to that on a personal level for them - that thinking about the ethical implications of an exploitative business model seems unnecessary, and even foolish. "There's no time for that," one might say, or "that's not under the jurisdiction of my job title." Well, bad news: it's not under the jurisdiction of anyone's job title. And not considering it brings us to... well, where we are today.