voting with your wallet works as well as voting works
under communism, there will not be “yearly pokemon games” - there will be one pokemon game per console generation, which will fall in line with the implementation of the nintendo seven year plan.
this single pokemon game will receive a yearly free expansion-sized update which will contain some combination of new regions, 100+ new pokemon and/or new mechanics per update, and quarterly free patches/QOL updates
I doubt it. Using the analogy of the East-German car, the Trabant, the game will have a very low price by mandate, which isn’t able to cover the costs of development, which, in combination with very little allocation of further funds, will lead to an absolute crawl in terms of development.
If you want to experience your dream update cycle, play No Man’s Sky, they have been releasing free content for years now. Java Minecraft is also consistently releasing new updates for free.
I doubt it. Using the analogy of the East-German car, the Trabant, the game will have a very low price by mandate, which isn’t able to cover the costs of development, which, in combination with very little allocation of further funds, will lead to an absolute crawl in terms of development.
The material conditions of East Germany are definitely applicable to an imaginative world were global communism is achieved and people still want play new pokemon games because communism bad or something.
East and West Germany is the closest we’ve ever come to being able to directly compare “communist” and “capitalist” dogmas. With everything that is already going wrong with government-led initiatives, it’s ludicrous to assume that a completely government-controlled society would have alot going for it.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is pretty much what they’re describing and it gets multiple updates a day. People don’t need to be paid to make cool things they like if the materials are purely intellectual. The internet used to be populated by lots of open source applications like that.
Under communism fan made games will be allowed to exist.
Under communism, there will be one open-source Pokemon game that keeps getting updated with new features, way too many features, so many that we’ll all be relieved when they make an inverted modpack system that lets you download someone else’s idea of what features should be disabled. The prevailing feature set will be an open world thing, but there will be a few popular linear story ones, so many that you can constantly play new ones of those if you’re willing to lower your quality standards a little.
There will be far too many Pokemon, because anybody can make a Pokemon. Community groups with wildly different structures, from a coop made of ex-Gamefreak employees, to artist houses, to self-appointed rating boards, to community voting contests, will all accept different Pokemon and make packs of them to plug into the Pokemon game. Different people will consider different groups of packs to be valid. The mishmash of these will be so confusing that people make a wiki to track not just the packs and pack-making groups, but also the common ways that people decide which packs are canon. The talk page for “Are Digimon Pokemon?” will be locked due to perennial flame wars.
(This is the future if you imagine open source software and game modding but with way more people and time.)
There will be far too many Pokemon, because anybody can make a Pokemon.
here’s my pokemon I just designed
Under the new People’s Regime, Pokemon games will be liberated from the hellish yearly development cycle.
You know what, fuck the manager! Where is the CEO? This account keeps having good takes, this isn’t supposed to be like that!
