many of the most interesting games started as free mods or student projects

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The rich can easily exploit the political system and lobby for favorable laws = Not only is it pay to win, the devs suck the dicks of their biggest whales

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It’s pay to win, where if you pay enough, the devs will add customized cheats that only work for you.

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Whistleblowing corruption is dangerous and might often end in persecution against the whistleblower = Reporting cheating whales is a surefire way to get yourself banned

The wealth inequality gap is mind-boggling = You’d need to grind nonstop for a total of 5 billion hours to buy one of everything on the cash shop

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The Inherited Wealth perk is ridiculously broken.

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21 points

No respawn. Gambling mechanics.

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Capitalism is very unpoggers.

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"This game needs to be more consumer friendly."

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Yeah the consumerist rhetoric in game reviews (and the entire technology press more broadly) dooms all of their attempts at analysis to be extremely shallow. Maybe one day a journalist will pay attention in one of their media studies classes and read the fucking Adorno reading that one of their teachers assigned, but that day has not yet come.

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