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Video Game Flaw - Fairness
Cordova, TN; October 16, in the year of our Lord 2017--Family
Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in covering the family
friendly video games is addressing a deep problem in the video
game industry. The issue is fairness. I get a little smirk on my
face when someone of a specific political aversion says
something about how they want to make everything fair. Generally
they want to bring things down to the lowest common denominator
and hand cuff those who are more blessed. That is one of the
reasons video games and the video game industry will never be
fair. Certain companies flourish and others go bankrupt. It is a
sad state of affairs. Thing is it is part of life. How would you
make video games fair? What would be required to make that
happen?
When it comes to any kind of video game competition it will
never be fair. Especially when we are talking about playing
video games online. One person has a better system, controller,
Internet connection, or some other factor. Some people play
certain games many more hours than others. There are some people
with better reflexes, or higher IQs. Certain people are paid to
play games and can sit there all day long with a certain game.
How will you equalize any of this? Every single gamer must be
sponsored the same amount of money, and play a game the same set
amount of time? What about people who only need a few hours of
sleep and can play more than most of us? Certain people have
specific talents for certain kinds of activities. Not every
player in the MLB wins the World Series in a year. Certain
players are naturally more gifted than others.
In video game journalism there is all kinds of unfairness.
Certain gaming media outlets have more money, and more staff
than others. Will you make that fair as well? How will you make
it fair? Certain video games are better than others. How will
you make review scores fair? Will every video game have to get
the same score? How is that fair? Not all games are the same
length, so it would not be fair to give them all the same
scores. Which brings up how will fairness actually be defined to
make video games fair? I know I asked a lot of questions in this
article. I hope and pray it provokes thought and discussion
among my fellow gamers. That is my goal of writing this article.
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming
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