Publishers: Why do these gamers constantly rebel against our corporate greed? The games:
Publishers: Why do these gamers constantly rebel against our corporate greed? The games:
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^(okay meme)
bonus points for Shinra Electric Company = SEC = Sony Entertainment Company
aperture is literally own by its publisher
Gamers are actually pretty horrible overall at media literacy and understanding that capitalism works against their interests.
I mean, any time capitalism is outright criticized or condemned in this sub it gets shouted down pretty hard.
*Games* are “allowed” to do it and even be adored despite having overt anti-capitalist messages, but if you try to point out where any of that actually applies to reality you get a bunch of salty nerds trying to “um actually” about how because those games were made under capitalism (as opposed to…?), it must be Good Actually.
(See also the long history of American TV, cinema, etc. critiquing capitalism despite the American public at large choosing to just ignore that messaging while still consuming said media; “**Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself**”)
EDIT: All the gamers coming in here to argue “muh capitalism!” I’m just blocking, at this point. Y’all must be so disappointed Sony went back on their planned Helldivers II change – that was literally capitalism at work, you dinguses.
My vote goes to FICSIT from Satisfactory
Welcome to FICSIT Incorporated! A company specializing in the research, development, and application of new technology and science, we do anything to find short-term solutions to long-term problems! As part of our brand-new Save The Day program, you’ll be sent to one of many alien planets in an effort to contribute to Project Assembly, a project I am legally bound to say nothing about for fear of our lives. And my job.
As a pioneer, you won’t only be constructing and automating the very factory that will contribute to Project Assembly, but also explore and exploit the planet and its inhabitants as you expand. Don’t worry, we’re super inclusive when it comes to alien lifeforms! We’ll even allow for pets, how cool is that!? Just don’t tell R&D.
You know, it’s pretty telling that when I look at that list, all I can imagine is Wayland-Yutani Corp and the UAC teaming up to implant Demons with Xenomorphs just to see what’ll happen.
What is Halcyon from? I recognize all the other ones.
I was so proud of myself for recognizing Armacham from FEAR right away.
I’m not saying Aperture is good, but they are no where near the levels of Vault-Tec, Shinra, Hyperion etc. All they wanted to do was do science to further mankind and did it in not so morally good ways. If anything, Black Mesa is way more corrupt than Aperture
I’d actually be willing to bet thousands of dollars that no person at a publisher has *ever* asked this question
Was expecting Lynx Corporation. Hardspace: Shipbreaker is surprisingly good, for what the game is about.
Your title sucks, no idea what you’re trying to say. The image doesn’t even contain games, so why do you write “The games:”
Guess something about the companies in the games also being greedy.
It’s too bad that most people aren’t really that politically literate.. Shit, people don’t even see the irony in screaming “for democracy” in Helldivers 2.. It is literally a game based on a movie that was made as a parody of fascism..
To be fair, Faro industries is a millennium dead by the time HZD starts. No one’s fighting the corporation, just their killer robots resurrected by a rogue AI sent to wipe out all life *again*.
Where Neo-Venus Construction (NEVEC)?
Where Concordance Extraction Corporation (CEC)?
You have no idea what FARO Automated Solutions is? Or that Ted Faro was a turd?
Blume is related to Abstergo.
Don’t foget transtar using prisoners to make more alien material, to put into people without telling anyone
Alterra from Subnautica
Lynx Corporation from Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Alterra from Subnautica
Lynx Corporation from Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Muxxalon from High on Life
Just came from r/StardewValley. Joja.
You give me idea for 3d prints
Alterra from subnautica is real generous. You crash land on an alien ocean planet, scrounge up items to survive off your own labour and manage to cure a deadly seemingly incurable disease in the process, in turn turning off the planetary defences to allow them to explore the planet at their leisure. Then they slap you with the bill for the destroyed spaceship since everyone else died making you the senior crewman and thus responsible for their ship getting destroyed. Also you owe them for all those resources they generously let you use to survive.