Denying that games can affect the people who play them is a way of calling games a lesser medium.

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• Games do not make the world a better place; like other art forms, they make the world. FLFrank Lantz25 Jul 2024
• The more freedom a design gives people to interact, the more of that freedom will be abused. DCDaniel Cook1 Jan 2023
• Games are hard to see clearly, and the usual tools for looking at them distort as much as they reveal. FLFrank Lantz25 Jul 2024
• The malaise in the game industry needs no complicated theory: the games that failed recently simply were not fun enough to compete with everything else in people's lives. TSTim Sweeney30 Apr 2025
• The video game audience has come to embrace the medium’s worst traits as emblems of the hobby rather than treat them as flaws. FLFrank Lantz21 Oct 2024

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