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Yeah this is where my own internal conflict is too. May be this cheap flooding is required to bring down the cost of creation so the truly high quality games/content creates by the top 1% will be valued more (though finding would be much harder?)?

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We moved from a content generation problem to a search problem.

It was always a search problem.

Yeah this was where I was getting to. Are the content enablers enabling flooding of content so now they can start selling the search tools/tactics. Wonder if this another way of creating a pandemic so you can sell a cure haha

The platform providers are enabling the flooding of content so that they get to become the curator and influence minds. Even general search is just an an ad pusher followed by whoever pays up to show up high, then followed by whoever games the system the best.

There's no incentive to fix it because they control the information and profit off the situation. The system is working as intended.

I think we're saying different things. In 1977 finding a good video game amongst the drek was difficult. It was a search problem in 1977, it's a search problem in 2025.

Sturgeon's law. 90% of everything is, and always will be, drek.

Interesting. But was the drek in 1977 because flooding the game market was "easy" (I meant to say game development was hard in 1977 - I think - so if there was really drel back then was there a high supply then that was the cause of it?

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