Jonathan Blow
On The Metal
Video Game Industry - Is That a Fair Assessment?
There's almost not really one video game industry now right now. I think of them as just like pretending to be games in order to have a microtransaction button or something right now and those are very different things because they're all about you know exploiting people's psychology in unethical ways, he says. SimCity is a creative activity that involves thoughtfulness and problem solving and skill and Farmville is just about getting you to sit in front of the screen for as long as possibleright there? "I don't like that and again this makes people in my industry mad"
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