The older guys in this site probably don't know it, but the gaming industry is gigantic, and makes way more money than Hollywood by now.
It's also an industry where China holds great sway in the mainstream, via companies like Blizzard, Riot Games, Activision. Check if you will. You'll see that the chinese company Tencent holds a sway in all of them.
If you're into video games as a pass time, or have children/nephews who do, I reccomend decoupling from the main scene and head into indie games territory, as the SJWs control most of the big titles out there.
As such, I personally suggest you guys should decouple and buy some indie games. They're always cheap, have plenty of creativity and passion built into them, and never have those gambling tactics designed to addict you and strip you from your money.
1st step : Stop buying annual sports titles (FIFA, Madden, NBA), and franchises like Call of Duty and Battlefield. They gloat constantly about addicting children and teenagers into gambling and ruined many lives with loot box mechanics
Step 2 : Buy indie games: I personally reccomend GoG, Humble bundle and Steam for buying if you play on PC. Dirt cheap prices, constant sales and most importantly, they don't serve Wall Street. Avoid Epic Games and Activision/Blizzard like the plague, they're all controlled by China via Tencent.
Step 3 : Research: You gotta be careful about the things your children play, so be watchful and look for age-appropriate titles. I personally reccomend the Best indie Games and the Tensor Gaming Youtube channels (links on comment), as they have almost daily trailers of brand new and awesome titles with all kinds of themes, from the little kid- friendly to the more mature. Buying independant games also helps small studios to thrive and flourish, sending more quality titles into the market.
That was my suggestion. You guys tell me what you think about it
It seems you answered your own question.
I used to be more of a gamer, I don't play much now that I'm married. At that point was already buying fewer games, especially new ones because even though the graphics were better, games have been degrading in quality for a long time (most games come out as beta versions and people pay to be bug testers).
The real solution is going to require some organization by the indie community into building cooperative studios. There are software tools that are freely available that can produce results that very much compare to the software used by blizzard and all.
At this point I am quite glad that I never got deep into the industry, I like software and game development even though now I'm more interested in AI. They all sell how "fun" the workplace is, but because video games operate similar to how books are sold and wind up having 6 month periods where everyone is working 20 hrs a day every day just to hit an impossible deadline. (Something attractive for an indie dev that just works on a project until it is complete and then put it out there on their own time).
It's also going to be difficult to uproot the AAA studios because they have become masters of the skinner box techniques and gambling methods to draw people into obsession.
It was more of a series of tips than a question. Gaming is here to stay, Best we can do is adapt and exploit it as a medium for comms and culture, bc the lefties are already doing it. But just denying the AAA studios your money and buying 10-15 indie titles instead not only is greatly helpful to the cause, but helps improve the market aswell.
Fair point, and really, as long as people continue to buy games like fallout 76 that was so incomplete they didn't even factor in NPC characters until months after the game was released.
Supporting indie studios will do good, but it seems that as long as something has flashy graphics and an interesting premise people will pay regardless how broken it is.
Show your children quality gaming. Games like Civilization can be wonderful tools for management skill, for example. Expose them to indies, present indie games for younger relatives. It's a whole other universe, with their own flashy stylized graphics and far more interesting premises than everything AAA can muster. It's your work to present and hook the children on good stuff, before the MSM hooks them on garbage.