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Between Ubisoft selling to China and EA selling to Saudis, AAA gaming looks bleak.

• slightwinder 1y ago
  Why? Both are probably also buying to participate in the media/culture-war. So it's in their interests to also have some good products to sell. The worst that might happen is that all the good games are now leaning more to Arabian/Chinese culture, instead of US/Europe, which is not even a new development, Asian culture has been quite prominent in Western Countries because of Japan and South Korea, and China has been also growing in the last years. And China has some really funded productions, usually playing in the top of their genre. Though, the cancer of gambling will continue spreading.
  • pluc 1y ago
    I don't know about you but I don't want my entertainment money to finance slave labor, cultural oppression, military invasions or butchering journalists. Could be a Canadian thing.
    • slightwinder 1y ago
      Then you also stay away from US-productions? Japanese Games? UK? Germany? South Korea? And this still has no relation with the quality of the games.
• sph 1y ago
  AAA gaming has looked bleak for the past 15 years, I still do not know why is it such a guiding star for the video gaming world. It is the artistic equivalent of Henry Ford’s assembly line where risk is low, marketing budget is high, and the result is mediocre and bland slop. AAA gaming is blockbuster cinema. It’s for people that don’t really care about the artistic medium. It’s mass entertainment at the industrial level.