I genuinely don’t understand the conflation of video games as a creative art with the video game industry. Like I get that people want to have a job they enjoy, but if the game industry burns to the ground people will still make games. The industry is not the medium. I wish there was a stronger doujin culture in the west so people didn’t feel like they had to participate in the industry to make video games.
Like it feels the same as me, an LGBT person, trying to get approval from the people who hate my guts. Fuck that. Why would I do that?? Capitalists will never value our art. They are inherently incompatible with our art. Unionization is the bare minimum for creating a working environment that isn’t outright inhospitable to art, but that’s all it is. Co-operatives are a step better. But ultimately art is sold because people need to eat, it has nothing to do with the creative medium.
I understand that not everyone feels this way about industry, they want it to work for them, and I hope they succeed and I won’t tell them to stop, but I personally find artistic industries repulsive and I don’t accept them as exclusively representing the mediums and artists they exploit.