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crafty · 3561 days ago · link · · parent · post: Hating Kim Kardashian: Hollywood Is Stupid | Eight-Bit Samurai
I see no intrinsic problem with the Kardashian game. From what I've seen, it looks like a vapid embrace of consumer culture. Despite what the Sims may have started out as, it turned into the same thing over the years, and it's certainly wildly popular. Most game developers and publishers are companies and make whatever kind of games are profitable. Sure, there are small developers who will make games for their artistic qualities, but on the whole, like with movies, they aren't going to invest millions of dollars into a project that they don't think will sell well. Nine times out of ten, those projects are not going to push culture forward in any progressive direction, they're going to pander to the current culture.