Current Events > Do you think video games should be a platform for addressing social injustices?

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don't see why video games shouldn't, it's an artistic medium like anything else.

People could always choose not to buy them if they do.

Games are to relax and have fun.

They're products made for entertainment. If you want to put food on the table via videogame development, generally the better selling games thrive purely from offering entertainment via compelling gameplay, not by making a statement.

Videogames are supposed to be our escape from sjw politics.

I hate how SJWs feel the need to force feed their terrible beliefs down everyones throat.

People could always choose not to buy them if they do.

We have to remember that the audience of games is primarily a child ages 10-16 and that that audience begins to thin out as they approach college. It's important to reflect a positive worldview for them.

That is just flat out not true. 18-34 is the largest age demographic of people who play video games.

Videogames are supposed to be our escape from sjw politics. Not become part of it.
I hate how SJWs feel the need to force feed their terrible beliefs down everyones throat.

I voted no but they aren't going away are they? I wish the interactive movies with minimal replay value on the whole would announce themselves as such. That'd be a pretty clean fix.

The fans of those would even have an easier time knowing where to look too. There'd be a shelf covered in political statement simulators, walking simulators, experiences, interactive tours of the latest graphics, resident evil 7, games with the word 'important' used a lot in their high scoring reviews, games whose devs do not use the word fun, exclusives you can fiercely defend online to stave off the buyer's remorse after a console purchase, the game that has the current meme everyone's already run into the ground and more.
They could put that shelf by the funko pops. They could even turn the price up to 80 or 90 dollars since these people seem to overvalue a one time novelty to a comedic extent.

That's entirely for the creator to decide.

I think videogames can be a legitimate vehicle to address all sorts of issues but not all the time in every game ever.

are you ok

I think they should, unless they're making a point that I disagree with, because I'm a big stupid baby.

Probably not, but lately I am finding some catharsis in going off on things I dislike.

Exactly. It's like how I don't listen to all the crappy political music these days. I listen to classic stuff like CCR and Springsteen. I want to escape from life and just groove to a beat, not hear someone's agenda.

How much do you fucking hate Metal Gear Solid? Or is that okay because Kojima puts a couple giant boobs in his games and they distract you?

I hate it when games force their views on me. We get it! America is good. War is good. Dogs are good. You don't have to keep going on about it in every game.

I just find it funny that people are saying "it should be up to the creators" yet when the creators DON'T make a political statement in their games, people get butt hurt. Can't preach it's up to the creators while also being upset if the creators don't bend to your whims. Anyway, I'm neither for nor against it. I don't particularly care either way.

Shit. You cracked the code. We better ban video games from having stories so no developer accidentally makes a statement based on their personal beliefs

I just find it funny that people are saying "it should be up to the creators" yet when the creators DON'T make a political statement in their games, people get butt hurt.