Throughout all my research I have touched almost all the most significant problems for the gamers' community. Rejection to count games as the piece of art, waves of criticism from the side of parents who do not want to take responsibility, the media attacks on the game culture and people thinking that gamers cannot achieve any success in terms of real social life. And in my last posting here I have only one last question: why do the media hate video games so much?
In my opinion, it is just easier to inflict all the sins of humanity on rather young and not well-known industry. And it is easier for everybody: for the media which do not want to do some deeper researches or which are just owned by some corporation or government (for which it is useful and easier too), for the parents who will scream and shout in the same breath that all the deviation in the behavior of their children is because of too much blood on the screens of their computers and not because both of them allow yourselves to smoke when their adorable kid is watching them. And they feed each other constantly: media give an opportunity for parents to lay their blame on video games throwing mud on the industry whereas parents give media a portion of new scandals. And that keep going over the ground. And meanwhile the games are not officially recognised as the piece of art, the situation will be still so frustrating because, unfortunately, people often blindly believe in any bosh told by the media. But I am delighted that, at least, one museum in the world accepted the idea of belonging of the world of games to the world of art and included 14 video games in its exhibition. By the way, the museum where you can find the first stand with computer games is Museum of Modern Art in New York, one of the most respected museums of modern art in the world. So, why can the experts, with a comprehensive knowledge of the subject, see the beauty in the pages of source code and pixels, while all the others see only notorious violence? It will be forever a mystery for me. This is so selfish and arrogant to argue with an opinion of people who have working experience and education in some area when you heard about the subject of their investigations a couple of times on the radio.
To sum up all that I have written in my blog, I have no doubts that slowly and surely the industry moves in the right direction. In the direction of comprehension and love between gamers and all that charachters who now compare video games to drugs and alcohol. I hope that one day the gamers' community will be left by all these accusations and scandals and game developers will be as famous and recognized experts as writers, directors and painters. And I hope that this day will come in the nearest future.
In my opinion, it is just easier to inflict all the sins of humanity on rather young and not well-known industry. And it is easier for everybody: for the media which do not want to do some deeper researches or which are just owned by some corporation or government (for which it is useful and easier too), for the parents who will scream and shout in the same breath that all the deviation in the behavior of their children is because of too much blood on the screens of their computers and not because both of them allow yourselves to smoke when their adorable kid is watching them. And they feed each other constantly: media give an opportunity for parents to lay their blame on video games throwing mud on the industry whereas parents give media a portion of new scandals. And that keep going over the ground. And meanwhile the games are not officially recognised as the piece of art, the situation will be still so frustrating because, unfortunately, people often blindly believe in any bosh told by the media. But I am delighted that, at least, one museum in the world accepted the idea of belonging of the world of games to the world of art and included 14 video games in its exhibition. By the way, the museum where you can find the first stand with computer games is Museum of Modern Art in New York, one of the most respected museums of modern art in the world. So, why can the experts, with a comprehensive knowledge of the subject, see the beauty in the pages of source code and pixels, while all the others see only notorious violence? It will be forever a mystery for me. This is so selfish and arrogant to argue with an opinion of people who have working experience and education in some area when you heard about the subject of their investigations a couple of times on the radio.
To sum up all that I have written in my blog, I have no doubts that slowly and surely the industry moves in the right direction. In the direction of comprehension and love between gamers and all that charachters who now compare video games to drugs and alcohol. I hope that one day the gamers' community will be left by all these accusations and scandals and game developers will be as famous and recognized experts as writers, directors and painters. And I hope that this day will come in the nearest future.
