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this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2025
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It's not entirely the devs at fault here. I'm sure more than a few of them would love to make more pro-socialist games but when most of your funding comes from the private sector it's a little hard to get away with that openly without being an indie developer, and that comes with its own issues.
That's all true, so much so that even devs work clearly socialist inclinations can't go all the way and say outright that that's right and liberalism's wrong. Best they can do is mock the reactionaries in a way that lets us know their intentions while the liberals blissfully believe they're in on the joke.
Regarding the USSR, I think it runs way deeper than that. I'm not convinced there are enough devs in the west that are sufficiently well read that we could put them together in one studio to make one AA title that's historically and sociologically accurate on the USSR. Even if there were, and they solved the funding issue, what's their audience? Anglosphere liberals? This hits an extremely deep issue that won't be resolved for quite some time.
Good points.