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You played the Cyberpunk RPG in the past, didn't you?
by lolive 5y ago
You played the Cyberpunk RPG in the past, didn't you?
- AtlasBarfed 5y agoExtranational MegaCorps aren't a new idea in SciFi, heck Star Frontiers in the 80s had them, and I'm sure that was ripped off from Traveller, and the Alien movie of course had the bigbad corporation.
- cblconfederate 5y agono, what about it?
- k8sToGo 5y agoBecause in that game society is "owned" by mega corps that exceed national states, like you described.
- cblconfederate 5y agooh well, that's a game we live in, every day
- hericium 5y agoSo... something like Second Life?
- callahad 5y agoThe progression from international to multinational to transnational corporations is also a prominent theme in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy.
- lolive 5y agoAnd especially wars are purely private in that game. Which sounded like complete fantasy when the game was released some 30+ years ago.