„If games are like drugs, let’s offer people psychedelics,” Mike Wilson, Devolver Digital‘s co-founder said. It sounds weird, but it can be easily explained.
Wilson took part in the Reboot Developer Red conference, Gamesindustry reports. Here, he said that the game developers are effectively the digital equivalent of drug dealers and that they need to take responsibility. „We’re feeding the country, we’re feeding the world, and we choose what we put into our creations—which are often the result of what we’ve been fed. We are pharmaceutical companies. We’re where people are turning in their most vulnerable moments; when they’re feeling their lowest, or they’re feeling like a piece of shit, or life isn’t working out as it should, because we live in this winners and losers society that is based on all kinds of things that are almost impossible to achieve for young people now.
Whether you think these are drugs—and by the way, I’m not against drugs at all—but if we’re going to be drug dealers, let’s offer people psychedelics. Let’s offer people something that’s going to help them expand and grow. Let’s not offer them crack-cocaine. Let’s not offer them meth. Let’s not literally mine for addicts.
Are we, collectively, gonna get our shit together and be intentional about what we’re feeding our friends, ourselves, the general public, young people at their most vulnerable state? Then who’s going to do that? Are we gonna leave it to the casino bosses? Are we gonna leave it to the people talking about user acquisition and monetization? Are we gonna try and compete in that game?”, Wilson said.
Later, he expressed via Twitter that these were his thoughts, and he did not represent Devolver Digital with what he said. Still, a good train of thought, while also underhandedly insult Ubisoft and Electronic Arts. We need more people in the gaming industry like Wilson.
Source: PCGamer
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