I sort of agree with his frustration with gaming.

Last decades have phased out games you played a lot in favor of games that have become "log into our monetized cash register".

An example of a game I really (still) love is skyrim. They sell it on gog and you don't have to keep pouring money into it.

Newer games seem to be built around psychological pressure to pay or stay in-game, which is more of an addiction or gambling or both.

That said, I don't know if elon subscribes to this philosophy. His cars are all online all the time, feeding into the data funnel to train ai.

I wonder how much of this is Elon’s idea or if it’s actually the idea of the people he is employing. AI is a very obvious place where video games will see some kind of innovation, good or bad as that may be.

I personally don’t think the problem with games is the big corporations. The main problem is the missing middle. Similar to movies, you’ve got big budget lowest common denominator blockbusters and you’ve got scrappy indie titles and not much in between.

I think it’s hard for interesting niche games with deep mechanics to get enough funding to be fleshed out as a satisfying experience. Instead, those niche titles might get created by indies but they can never really live up to the ideal vision of that game.

Doesn't he have more important shit to be preoccupied with?