Game development is worthless? WTF? (Was: Why Ruby?)

[Christopher Nicholson-Sauls]

On 12/19/10 14:52, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Daniel Gibson" <metalcaedes at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.37.1292790264.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Caligo <iteronvexor at 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!)
> 

(On the upside, that means you get to grow an epic beard.)