Wait! Don't decide I'm being an idiot and move on! I have a (somewhat) coherent argument here! Hear me out.
Disclaimer: Shit I say about game companies in this article is not directed at most game companies, but in fact at the ones that make the most games. I'm not going to name any names here, but pretty much everyone you're going to see at E3 this week is who this is about.
Ok. So. I went with prostitution over any other form of business for three main reasons. Firstly, both gaming and prostitution are businesses based on selling an (in most cases) infinite good, a product that you still have after it has been sold. Secondly, big gaming companies and 'pimps' are both in it for the money for the work of others. So far, so obvious. Now my logic may get a little convoluted. Oh! Reason three is that prostitution has a bad image, and that's what I'm trying to convey. See, now I've given away my own clever ploy. Ahha!
This is kind of another disclaimer combined with what I hope is a valid point. People are probably going to be like "but what about those hookers/devs that are doing it because they genuinely enjoy their work". I think my point already made itself here. Sure, the low-level employees are doing it because they like it. This is good for the consumers in both cases, no problems here. The issue is the higher-level bosses are taking advantage of that enjoyment for their own personal profit. They're the successful fuckers. Yes. Pun definitely intended.
Say, hypothetically, a prostitute gets some breast implants. And that this, hypothetically, causes her to get a higher income. If you were this girl's pimp, wouldn't you like this extra money? So, since you have the authority to do so, wouldn't you tell all of your girls to earn this extra money by getting these implants too, only bigger? Yes. I am currently talking about Call of Duty. Producers thought it would be a cool idea to enhance the Post-Game gaming and multiplayer game modes by adding a game mode where you fight of wave after wave of undead Nazis. This was all well and good. This was the breast implants from the aforementioned hypothetical scenario. See my point now? CoD is guilty of this many times throughout it's franchise.
Now, to continue my hypothetical boob-job scenario, say another pimp saw all the extra dough this other pimp was making because all of his workers had massive melons. He would want to get in on this too, right? This is where Battlefield comes in. CoD was, and still pretty much is, the almighty king of the big-budget first person shooter for consoles. EA saw Activision's bountiful bazongas here, and decided to enhance their own workers milk-sacks. Suddenly we have damn near every game released last year looking like the same large-lumped laborer of love that Activision have been pushing for years.
Now! For my use of this to justify piracy! If you could sleep with someone with the *ahem* skills of a prostitute without having to pay with no strings attached and you never had to see her again, would you? Now say you meet a nice girl, ask her out and go on a date and go home together, you would want to make her feel wanted, so that you could have more of her in your life, right?
(Sorry any females reading this, I personally am male so I write for myself, just switch any instances of "he" to "she", "him to "her", etc.)
