Slavery: The Game "Become The Most Powerful Slavetrader"

[Riobux]

To be honest, I'm actually interested in the game. The game is meant to be historical rather, what a lot of people seem to think it is, white supremacy. Yes, it's a brutal sounding game but it has historical grounding and it's trying to embrace the historical part rather than "lol black people being sliced" part. I'm actually surprised at the amount of people who got all emotional as though the developers are encouraging the burning of minorities. Come on, this stuff actually happened and you can't make it go away by putting fingers in your ears.

Fake or not (honestly, hoping the latter), people need to grow up and accept what happened. Showing historical moments is not equal to racism.

 

[xorinite]

Its curious most people seem to be laboring under the delusion that slavery is something that happened in the past, when in reality there are more people held in bondage today than at the height of the American slave trade (although less as a percentage of the total global population)
According to Wikipedia (sourced from places like the UN) currently there are an estimated 12 - 27 million people held as slaves.

 

[PurePareidolia]

They enslaved Wilhelm! Those monsters!


You know, with proper execution this could be an interesting game, exploring a particularly dark period of history. Even still from an owner's perspective, though it'd be a hard sell obviously - you're pretty much guaranteed to do horrible things to people. But I mean, putting a player in the space where they're asked to do that and then letting them see if they can make the best of it like a nautical Oskar Schindler could make for extremely compelling gameplay. At a guess I'd say a lot of players would probably at least try something like that, but a "good" playthrough would require a lot of real moral tradeoffs between profit, standard of living, being competitive toward less ethically inclined slavers, but it'd make for a far more introspective game than the traditional good/evil karma meter, especially with recurring characters who could react to your methods, praising you, calling you out, whatever.

It'd have to be free though, I'm pretty sure nobody would willingly buy it.

 

[Matt Oliver]

A game about slavery has already been made. I can't remember its name, it was Japanese and had two characters. A woman who enslaves a man with a Running Man -esque explosive collar. The Escapist even had an article praising its story if I remember correctly, twisted fuckers.

I don't think this is real either, at least going by Mr Cavalli's article on it that I read earlier.

Either way, don't care. Slavery is old news in the western world, about time people stopped getting so pissy about it. Nobody even close to being alive was a slave.

We can joke about Hitler's ovens but can't even touch the subject of slavery? Get bent.

its called enslaved: oddssay to the west. i cant spell oddasy sorry.

 

[Phisi]

I could support this... if it were done by what what I would call correctly. As in you do all the things that slave traders did and you see the views of the people of the time on slaves and slave-trading. That is probably the most terribly phrased sentence ever but I hope you understand what I'm trying to get across here. However instead of being a simulation of whether you could actually be a slave trader or whether your conscience stops you, it seems to be a "VIOLENCE YEAH AWESOME" type of game. That said though, there is nothing stopping anyone of us playing it to use it as a conscience tester as at the end of it, a game is nothing more ten content and it is how people perceive that content as to what effect it has. I am just terrible at writing stuff today :/

 

[Vergial]

The number of people who fail to see this as fake is making my brain melt. Even the screenshot screams 'fake', or at the very least 'shitty Facebook game'.

With that in mind, however, I also can't understand why people are getting so uppity over the slavery concept. As mentioned numerous times in the thread so far, we're perfectly okay with murdering a bazillion people but slavery makes us hurl? 'Scuse me? Double standards much, far as I'm concerned. I'd totally play a game where I'm the slave driver.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Oh no, a slave game.... I am so offended. Pardon me whilst I play my morally superiour game where I shoot everyone and leave over a thousand crying Russian orphan in my wake.

 

[sumanoskae]

Normally, this might just be so despicable that I'd just right it off as inhuman and pointless to comment on. Anyone who survived this site long enough without incurring the moderator wrath would have to posses some semblance of reason and ethics, and thus would already know what's wrong with this picture.

But I just finished watching an episode of Roots... How far we've come

 

[Something Amyss]

I'm pretty sure this can't be a real game.... and if it is it'll get stopped as quick as that Wii Sex game.

Unless it's for PC, which is most likely with an AO rating. Most retailers refuse to stock AO titles, and consoles block them. But PC is a slightly different animal. Still no retail sales, but....

Though honestly, I'm hoping this isn't serious.

 

[Something Amyss]

I'm pretty sure this can't be a real game.... and if it is it'll get stopped as quick as that Wii Sex game.

Unless it's for PC, which is most likely with an AO rating. Most retailers refuse to stock AO titles, and consoles block them. But PC is a slightly different animal. Still no retail sales, but....

Though honestly, I'm hoping this isn't serious.

 

[sumanoskae]

Day 1 purchase, obviously.

AO, huh? Didn't even realize anyone was developing AO games anymore. What makes it AO? Just the fact that it is slavery? Hmm...

Wow. How does something like this get green lighted? And it's an Adults Only rated gamed too. I thought those kind of games died out a long time ago.

Rapelay was AO. Any game involving actual sex as a gameplay mechanic is AO. And yes they're still being made, even if you don't include the numerous flash sex games there's still "AAA" stuff being made.

Hell, there's an MMO game that allows each player to have sex acts of various kinds (they even show bondage in the trailer) with other players.

So this game will contain a lot of slave rape, eh? I dunno. I'm still betting they made it AO based on the slave factor.

Pretty much only AO because it's slavery, this game just seems to be attempting historical accuracy (minus the bolt rifle thing) and not for sexual gratification.

It's a double standard. Rome: Total War has slavery and crucifiction options available to the player yet that game received no flak for it to my knowledge. Plenty of games have slavery in them, apparently a business simulation about it is just beyond our standards as we continue shooting Nazi's in the head.

Rome: Total War CONTAINED slavery, it wasn't ABOUT slavery.

This game doesn't appear to be carrying itself with any semblance irony, at best I'd say it's in bad taste.

"You can smear shit on your face to make an ironic statement, but you still smell like ass" - Yahtzee.

Imitation does not equate to parody. You can't make a statement about something by simply showcasing it, you have to interject some form of irony or subtext, at least.

And it's still being charitable to assume this is some kind of joke, and not just people being shit. There are more then enough white supremacist gamers to to pay for the cost of an independent racist game.

 

[sumanoskae]

I don't know weather to make a joke about how my first thought was not to choose a weapon that would cause lasting harm or just wonder why someone would be messed up enough to make this game.

On second thought yea this is a pretty fucked up game

I am more disgusted by the use of "weather" in the place of "whether" than the concept of a slave-trader game but then again I'm a bad person and does it really take that much effort to put an h at the end of "yea".

When you're as fumingly angry as you should be to witness such a thing, then yes, keeping composure enough to spell check can become rather difficult

 

[AllLagNoFrag]

The game is original I give it that but, this would just be like somebody creating a rpg game where you play Hitler and have to wipe out the Hungarian-Jewish population...

 

[Kargathia]

But Rome: Total War wasn't entirely about slavery, and the slave trade. The thing I want to know is if this game has any historical significance hiding between the lines. Something leading up to the end of slavery and how you - as a business man - must deal with that. It is a very odd line with this game. There is a joker card that could have this game being used wisely.

Let's start with the basics: it probably isn't even a game, but a prank pulled by a Dutch art school student. A good prank, but still a prank.

 

[mad825]

*shurg*

I might play it although it would require a small demo first. Calling it "controversy" seems laughable, what can be worse than senseless murder?

 

[ReservoirAngel]

There is absolutely no way that anybody could ever believe that this game would be a good idea...

 

[rokkolpo]

It'll likely be some kind of flash game.

But I like the idea.
Nothing wrong about it in my opinion.

 

[Dumbfish1]

I'm calling PR stunt, or high budget trolling.