Hi,
I recently had an idea - what if we create a community-driven database of computer games companies, where for every company, you have an ethical score of that company. You can also check how that score changed over time and how that score is calculated.
I was thinking about that because it feels like a lot of gamedev companies are doing shit right now, but there are 2 problems:
- A lot of that shit will be forgotten by the masses in a year or two. Such a database would address that issue by remembering all the immoral stuff a company did in the past.
- Some companies are bullied by people because of one shitty thing they did, but at the same time, nobody really remembers what good that company might have done. For example, a lot will remember that company X fired a bunch of workers but not a lot of people will remember that a year prior, the company supported a group of minor game developers. Such a database would help calculate a “fair” score of the morality of that company.
Maybe in the future, such a knowledge base can be used to pressure game development companies into better decisions, who knows?
I think this definitely must be controlled by a community, because, as you correctly said, different people care about different things. Maybe it should be some kind of consensus or voting for different types of ethical problems, idk.
For now, I have no idea how such calculations can be done to be actually “fair”, I’m just proposing a topic for discussion. But, in my opinion, this shouldn’t be done by one person - that’s for sure.