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Devolver Digital is running into trouble with its game, Weedcraft, despite cannabis entering into an age of legalization. The game is about managing a cannabis business from startup to empire, but the videos have been demonetized on YouTube. Facebook is also causing trouble with the game which covers multiple scenarios from prohibition to full legalization. Treatment of the game on those, and other platforms, has been inconsistent.
"It's really hard to say how the game will be affected," Wilson told me. "A lot depends on how much [digital marketplaces] Steam and GOG continue to support its visibility and how many people share the story. All we can do is try to make a conversation happen around the industry and with gamers about this insanity and try to make changes. "
Wilson also pointed out that both YouTube and Facebook run ads for hyper-violent video games. Assault is illegal pretty much everywhere, whereas recreational weed use is legal in many states, such as California, Colorado, and all of Canada.
"We all know that violence/murder is A-OK, and that sex or drugs are not, even when presented in a thoughtful way to an audience with an average age of 40, but we've all known that for far too long," he said.
See also: YouTube, Facebook put up ad roadblocks for Weedcraft, Inc. business sim
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @09:08AM (4 children)
That is a large part of it but it doesn't explain the strange US stance "We all know that violence/murder is A-OK, and that sex or drugs are not".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @09:22AM (2 children)
Really?
I thought it was "We all know that free speech is A-OK. Full stop."
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @11:20AM (1 child)
Found the recent college grad. Though the "Full stop" implies he is not from 'Merica
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @10:10PM
AC you replied to here. That's amusing! Thirty years ago, you might have made a case for drugs/sex bad and murder/violence good.
Things have changed significantly since I was a young'un.
And "Full stop." is in use all over the English speaking world. If I want sex or drugs in my media, it's all over the place. Just not on broadcast networks -- which are irrelevant these days.
No, there are no more whores on Seventh Avenue as Paul Simon described [youtube.com], that's mostly moved online. And you can't buy joints at the Bandshell [centralpark.org] any more, although I could probably still find some cannabis and LSD in the Meadow [wikipedia.org].
But there should be recreational cannabis legalization here pretty soon.
You know that old saw about "when you assume..."? The truth is, you only make an ass of yourself.
Culture changes slowly, but there's always an avant garde (does that make me French?) section that pulls us forward. And thank goodness for them!
So you're 0 for 2 so far, champ. I look forward to more pronouncements from you, oh wise one.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by RamiK on Sunday April 14 2019, @12:40PM
Violence and murder aren't fine and are only permitted in a context where it serves to reinforce the class system and the law or to educate/terrorize the masses about the perils of not having those. Sex and drugs are similarly fine under the same social hierarchic order like in the case of marriage or a doctor's prescription.
To actually be subversive, this game will have to have the protagonist being a loving single father/mother that deals in a real drug (heroin or the likes) in a comedic family drama way and has the customers be normal functioning members of society. That's to say, Weeds rather than Breaking Bad. Though even Weeds chickened out most of the time and portrayed many pot heads as, well, pot heads. A similar portrayal you'll never see is a good, moral prostitute that has no drug issues or the likes and doesn't die horribly or leaves behind a broken home...
At its most common form you have the trope where young couples are murdered immediately after they have sex in horror movies...
Honestly, it's all propaganda for one cause or the next. When you can't tell what the cause is, it means it's working since you already accepted the premise as an axiom.
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