Yeah I have to agree with this. Also how do games "reduce carbon emissions" This is a digital store front there are no physical discs involved.

Threads like this are a good indication of why democracy is a bad idea.

GOG should give us the ability to blacklist games, now that they gave us a list of games that would do nicely on a blacklist.

Education only gets in the way of having the opinion you want to have.

Thanks GOG for this event. Any reason is a good reason for promotion. And congratulations to developers who are trying to take this consideration into account in their activities.

It's quite surprising that so many people are upset about promoting environmental protection and reducing pollution. Which is the consensus of world-wide scientists. But an orange president says the opposite, so...

What does a mandarin president says in this regards?

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Couple thoughts:

1. Video game studios very likely aren't big industry emitters compared to other industry sectors like electricity generation, transportation, refining, and agriculture. So their emissions are minimal - comparable to any commercial/office facility. It wouldn't be hard for them to simply buy carbon credits to offset whatever utilities consumption they have at their corporate office or homes if working remotely.

2. If anything, gaming is one of the worst hobbies to go after for emissions because there really isn't much to do to reduce emissions. The very nature of gaming is converting electricity into almost 100% heat except for the small sliver of subjectively valuable signal data for on-demand graphical processing. Whereas the result of the same display can be achieved by watching a Youtube playthrough with less electricity and less demanding local hardware, but at that point you're streaming instead of gaming. Besides deliberately making low spec games and getting gamers to update their CPUs/GPUs/PSUs with lower TDP and higher efficiencies and lowering output hardware output (e.g., 1080p resolutions instead of 4K+), I don't see how it can be made more environmentally friendly.

Personally, I don't like the idea of combining gaming and emissions because there's not much they can do here and seems futile. Although I do appreciate the gesture, I'd say the effort should be better put elsewhere to low hanging fruit where other sectors can reduce their emissions on a broader scale with greater effect.

Well, gaming makes me consume an awful lot of beer, and that in turn causes my ass to emit quite a few emissions...... what do Midgard recommend for that?