Maybe it's just me but I don't remember ever seeing lawmakers and politics perceiving gaming as a serious economy like other forms of entertainment.
It seems it's still all fun and games made by individuals in some basement.
Until the content of a specific game is offending someone, then it's suddenly a political issue until that one game is gone.
Would be good to have a serious political discussion not only about the dopamine machine social media, but also about the millions of "cow clicker" games and how also those may impact on youth and the nation as a whole...
It's not just gaming, entertainment in general. I hope no other industries would have been allowed to consolidate, vertically and horizontally, as much. Having a very limited number of content producers that also handle their exclusive distribution (and in the case of gaming, exclusive hardware) isn't great for the consumer.
It seems it's still all fun and games made by individuals in some basement.
Until the content of a specific game is offending someone, then it's suddenly a political issue until that one game is gone.
Would be good to have a serious political discussion not only about the dopamine machine social media, but also about the millions of "cow clicker" games and how also those may impact on youth and the nation as a whole...