Dom, Mother of Gamers

There's only capacity within the industry for so many 50,000+ daily active user, live service, pvp games at once. We could say RN those games are: - League - Fortnite - PUBG - Dota - FIFA - NBA - CS2 - Deadlock - Valo - Call of Duty - Overwatch - Siege - Arc Raiders - Dead by Daylight - etc.

Various warlocks and spellcasters are directing their hexes at me but it has no effect.

I have sympathies for pro wrestling fans. The allegations against certain people imply a cultural legacy of hideous sexual assault that makes it tricky to celebrate the careers of older wrestlers who don't even have specific allegations against them.

Considering all the statements from and against their peers, assuming innocence seems dreadfully naive but to leave them out of the conversation before a specific allegation is made and/or their guilt is proven would be disingenuous and unfair to them as a human. So instead I write nothing.

I have sympathies for pro wrestling fans. The allegations against certain people imply a cultural legacy of hideous sexual assault that makes it tricky to celebrate the careers of older wrestlers who don't even have specific allegations against them.

I also feel this way about classic musicians like The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, David Bowie, etc. but the problems seem more pervasive in Wrestling. Perhaps because English language wrestling is more centralised, or maybe I just know more about it than music.

"You think we're in late stage capitalism? Babe, we're just getting started." I tend to agree with this sentiment but I think video games might be an exception. The industry is getting close to its hypothetical capitalist limitations and I don't know how much farther it can stretch.

Companies right now don't even pretend to worry about their public relations reputations. Firing people, cancelling projects, pursuing AI. There is no time to feign a moral backbone, to pretend to care about the community. If we don't put all our energy into maximising profits this train will crash.

"You think we're in late stage capitalism? Babe, we're just getting started." I tend to agree with this sentiment but I think video games might be an exception. The industry is getting close to its hypothetical capitalist limitations and I don't know how much farther it can stretch.

Partially, we are still suffering the effects of the Pandemic which caused game sales to skyrocket, raising investors expectations based on conditions which did not sustain outside of a lockdown. But still. If this isn't the limit of capitalism for the industry I don't know what is.

"You think we're in late stage capitalism? Babe, we're just getting started." I tend to agree with this sentiment but I think video games might be an exception. The industry is getting close to its hypothetical capitalist limitations and I don't know how much farther it can stretch.

In the lower budget sector, making a game is a complete gamble. It is sustained by the passion (or delusion) of hundreds of thousands of developers who are, right now, working for literally no money on games that will never make a profit.

"You think we're in late stage capitalism? Babe, we're just getting started." I tend to agree with this sentiment but I think video games might be an exception. The industry is getting close to its hypothetical capitalist limitations and I don't know how much farther it can stretch.

The high budget sector has come to seek and expect the financial success of live service juggernauts like fortnite. Anything that doesn't reach those heights is shut down, but because the market can only sustain so many of them, that means everything is getting shut down.

I feel like I know so many funny, cool people but the concept of inviting more than three of them to something seems impossible now due to all the animosity that exists between them. Things are not looking good for a potential 30th birthday party in two years.