>“Americans shoot things and they blow up and the like, so as you’d expect, they make games like that,” Miyazaki stated. “If someone is the enemy, it’s okay to kill endless numbers of them. Lord of the Rings Online is like that. If it’s the enemy, there’s killing without separation between civilians and soldiers. That falls within collateral damage.”

>Miyazaki claimed that such projects are a dangerous addition to public discourse because they diminish the value of human life by weaponising the audience through gameified violence.

>“How many people are being killed in attacks in Afghanistan? The Lord of the Rings Online is a game that has no problem doing that [not separating civilians from enemies, apparently]. If you read the original work, you’ll understand, but in reality, the ones who were being killed are Asians and Africans. Those who don’t know that, yet say they love fantasy games are idiots.”

>“Even in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, there is a white guy who, ‘bang,’ shoots people, right? Japanese people who go along and enjoy with that are unbelievably embarrassing,” he explained. “You are the ones that, ‘bang,’ get shot. Playing [those games] without any self-awareness is unbelievable. There’s no pride, no historical perspective. You don’t know how you are viewed by a country like America.”

Activist video game developers seem to not care about violence. It's sad how this perspective is completely lost to the modern dev

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