Only whites can drink from this fountain. Excluding a peoples is wrong. Regardless if you think its a non issue or that they arent alowed to own a computer or buy a game "because they are poor" so they should spend there money on food, not games. They dont deserve a break and cant enjoy to play a game.
Okay, first off, don't you dare compare the inability to play a
video game based on financial ability to the systematic dehumanization of millions of people based on the fallacy of race.
Let me say that you're not going to find many people more sympathetic to the lower classes than I am. I know what it's like to be poor. We weren't food-stamps-poor, but we did get donations from the food bank on occasion. We never owned a car less than six years old. I didn't have my own car until my third year of college. My first videogame system was the NES, bought second-hand just over a year before the release of the Super NES. We had about ten games for it. I didn't own a computer until I got to college, and I built it on budget parts paid for by my own money. I had just four games on that (Starcraft, Diablo, Quake, and Civ II).
Did I want more games? Of course. When new games came out requiring dedicated 3D cards, did I whine to the publishers about how they must hate poor people because poor people couldn't afford the 3D cards needed to play their games? No. I didn't complain to game companies that chose to use high quality audio in their games which would have caused my cheap soundcard to fail. I accepted that I didn't have the money to play that game and moved on.
You want publishers to make it so their games are available to poor people? Well, I want the Walmart-enabled subsection of society to accept that they are not entitled to luxuries simply because they are human. I think one of the most damaging trends in the world right now is the idea that everyone should have a 36" widescreen TV and a car and a house with a surround sound theater. This actually ends up driving more exploitation of workers in other countries, so Walmart can supply people with crappy $80 TVs that will fail in four years. It's self (and world) destructive and feeds the idea that everyone has a right to have that New Thing(tm) they see on TV. You don't. You have to buy it. If it's too expensive, then you will just have to deal without.
If a new game comes out and it requires an internet connection (which Civ5 does, just barely) and you can't afford one, then your correct course of action is to simply go without. I know that life is hard. If I can drive a car that's older than me for eight years, then you can deal with waiting a few years before buying a new video game. God, I only wish that my biggest unfulfilled desire was the fact that I couldn't play a video game. I have a good job now, and can do things like go on vacations in Japan and build new computers every three years, but I still can't afford to live in a 3 bedroom house because the banks hate poor people and insist on making me pay a mortgage on it.
Now, I'm not saying that the poor must live in squalor, and I'm not saying that we should try to deny them "fun". I've actually donated a couple thousand dollars of money and merchandise to local schoolchildren who have all the food and blankets they need (thanks to other people), but are lacking in entertainment and happiness. But that's not what you're talking about. You can easily play Civ4. You don't even need the CD anymore. You want to be able to play the new thing and you're demanding that Firaxis make it available to you.
I'm sorry, I'd love to be on your side on this one, but if you can't afford a minimal internet connection, then you'll just have to go without. I assure you, lack of Civ5 won't kill you. I don't have Civ5, and I'm still alive. You sound like a spirited fellow. I'm sure you'll find a way to survive.
