The Game Industry Is Making Me

The game industry is making me(...) Everything coming out this past month from Sony, Microsoft, Steam, GTA, Bethesda, Bungie, EVERYTHING has been a daily dose of end stage capitalism. Game developers deserve to have jobs, and youre not entitled to ruin their lives by firing them just because you now own a company. Nothing about the games industry has me excited and I'm happy I got a PS5, Xbox X, Xbox S and Nintendo Switch because I am not buying another console again. I'm not a mindless consumer. This industry is on the fast track to a dystopian future. The money is there, the passion is there, but not one single fucking developer or fan of the hobby can participate without paying the bridge troll. Everywhere you turn it's rising prices, layoffs, AI investments, RAM/SSD shortage, global warming, right wing freaks etc etc this world is going to hell in a hand basket and we all deserve it for letting it just happen. I'll continue playing the games I own and love until the console breaks. Then I'll buy another one secondhand if the option still exists. I'll purchase the new games that seem interesting on disc while I can and only buy the digital only games when they're less than $20. The gaming community are the most vocal about their unhappiness but are more likely to continue shelling out money at this monopolized prices than actually boycott Everything Sony Microsoft and the rest are doing, they're only doing it because you're allowing it

A long forum-style rant condemns the modern video game industry for layoffs, rising prices, AI investment, hardware shortages, monopolization, and end-stage capitalism. The joke is the contradiction between loudly criticizing Sony, Microsoft, and other companies while continuing to buy and play their games; it is used as a reaction to gaming industry outrage and consumer hypocrisy.

• @eternalclassic / 90577 2026-07-03