>>11 i mean. live service games are just generally "bad games". im not interested in astro bot as a good or bad game, but as an example of simulacrum. it's a copy without an original. built of symbols stripped of context and packaged pristinely for consumption. this has nothing to do with it being fun or not. the soullessness comes from this one aspect of it. these live service games are skinner boxes so they might be interesting to analyze in a psychological/sociological context, rather than a philosophical one.
i mean. live service games are just generally "bad games". im not interested in astro bot as a good or bad game, but as an example of simulacrum. it's a copy without an original. built of symbols stripped of context and packaged pristinely for consumption. this has nothing to do with it being fun or not. the soullessness comes from this one aspect of it. these live service games are skinner boxes so they might be interesting to analyze in a psychological/sociological context, rather than a philosophical one.