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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: 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.