Games Are Not Art, and Thinking They Are Has Dragged Down The Hobby

Notes:

Some good answers to this s---:

Treating games like disposable toys is exactly why they're packed full of microtransactions and anti-consumer nonsense.

Treating games like they're NOT art is what's dragged down the industry, and if you're too dense to see that, you're part of the problem.

— VƎX IS RUNNING D&D (@vexwerewolf) September 1, 2018

"Games aren't art because I don't like the direction some developers are taking with games" 🤔

— coochie poochie 🐾 (@DEM0NBITCH) September 2, 2018

This is the Gish Gallop of Gamergate b-------. It’s historical take is dead wrong; he ignores the very early Infocom text adventures with their super rich complexity, and is charged with ressentiment while failing to justify its positions, which meander. A poorly written screed.

— Eli Kaplan, renovations TBA (@PhillyEliKaplan) September 1, 2018

I didn't realise Jack Thompson himself was being invited to write editorials now

— Boner Culture Disrespecter (@CranBoonitz) August 30, 2018