Confession Bear : India Gov killed Real Money Gaming and I’m for it

What the post says. Albeit my sincere condolences to those laid off! The ruling is really unfortunate for many who joined the Real Money gaming space in india but this was also inevitable. I know people who have tried to get out of the Indian RMG space because they didn’t like the ethics of it or saw it’s impending doom, with all the uncertainty around the legality.

The reason I’m for it is because it ruined the beginnings of the Indian gaming industry. Indian gaming companies only focused on learning the skills to build stronger hardcore gambling games. Some companies had the opportunity to diversify into using the money to make mistakes and learn to make great games. Maybe hire outside talent to learn better and bring the disciple of Game Design to India. But the majority have failed to do so. I hope this delivers significant pressure to the few that survive to try harder at understanding the gaming landscape and attempt to make games they themselves would play. (The majority of game teams in in Indian gaming companies, do not play / enjoy their own game - Read “Don’t eat their own dog food” cliche)

Right now, the Indian gaming ecosystem is like if Hollywood was run by product managers instead of good writers. They just study what “works” and do more of that, missing the point of artistic exploration and concepts of novelty, story-telling and fun. (That is happening in a way, given the direction of constant re-boots of old movies - lead by a very Product MBA mindset with only 2-3 orders of thinking) - incapable of deconstructing “fun” itself (even though some people claim to be able to))

A bit of a jumble of thoughts but just wanted to get that thought out.