“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that the cause of violence is ourselves in the first place.“ says a Gamasutra comment.
Exactly. That’s why the game industry needs to look at itself and deal -internally- with the fact that we build violent entertainment. Of course there’s no correlation with murders per se, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that we participate into that violent culture, and that we are the most efficient medium at it.
So everything goes wrong. Publishers and lobbies meet with the president when they shouldn’t have (hey US government, how about you meet with gun manufacturers and enforce some shit on them) game developers are not a majority to think that maybe we should think a bit more about the cultural impact we make with our games. Meanwhile, more tax dollars spent on useless “research” that is going to do nothing.
Frustrating.