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Yep. But PC video games are all x86. And I do like to escape.
Most are, because most video games are made by developers who want to make money and they see that x86 is currently the most used platform so they focus on that. Personally I don't care for most games because of this. I rather play an open/libre source game made by some person who values their craft and thinks what they're doing is fun.
Bruh just because people gotta eat doesnt mean game devs dont love the art form. Actually game dev is like THE worst job a software developer could have people only do it BECAUSE they love video games, the corpos is charge dont give a fuck obiusly but indie game devs do and the actual devs in game studios do too again its not a good job to make money.
If we were talking about a world were people didnt need to money to eat then this would be a different conversation but here and now what u said is just ridiculous.
Even during the PS2 era, games like Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal had 9 month development cycles, with developers working 60+ hours a week. Many games are built with developers essentially sleeping in the office, ordering junk food, gaining weight, neglecting their families, sleeping 4 hours a day for months (nearly killing themselves), etc. because their passion is heavily exploited. While I miss the era of PS2 when many genres were explored and experimented with and games were more of an art form instead of some generic slop to sell microtranscations, season passes, etc., I passionately want game development to do away with abusive, crunch culture.
Adding to the discussion of multiple commenters' desire for libre game development expressed here, it would be nice if China were to invest in its gaming industry, supporting open source games that can outcompete games made with blood in Amerikkka and the West (and the exploited Global South slave developers especially). To add to my previous comment here, I think China could really take advantage with developing open source games under the open source architecture and operating systems which they have been investing in. I believe it would be a massive soft power win. If they could make more professionally maintained alternatives to popular games like Minecraft, for example, and I think a lot of people would jump ship as they are fed up with Microsoft's and other corporations'/studios' bullshit, though the US pigs would probably ban the games because of tErRoRiSm. It already looks like China's games, film, and animation production are starting to outcompete the West, though it would be nice to see them create and optimize their games like Black Myth Wukong under their sovereign open source tech and let their gaming industry skyrocket like their AI tech industry has due to open source tech and open collaboration across their provinces.