[2022] Tweets by Orteil42 on 16 Feb

the "bots and gold-selling detract from our player experience and must be prevented" to "bots and gold-selling are part of our core gameplay actually" pipeline

play-to-earn games don't just completely miss the point of games by explicitly becoming jobs, they also incentivize a new, unregulated job market amounting to little more than digital sweatshops

it's already happening in crypto spaces, and in the future this is what every AAA game may look like. companies like Ubisoft know this, and they do not care - they look forward to offloading labor law abuses onto their playerbase. this is unconscionable https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1447019181707120643