Isn’t one of the main founding pillars of the entire cyberpunk genre to teach the lesson that big monopolistic megacorps and an over-reliance on technology is a bad thing? Like, the story is to show how bad life would be under those circumstances, so you have technology that advances, and the law with it, but regular citizens cannot afford the new tech so they have to cobble it together themselves from the old tech they have in order to comply with the law set by the BBEG megacorp?
How do you have a cyberpunk society without all the bad parts? Such a society would have citizens that can afford or are provided new tech and thus the cyberpunk aspect would naturally not exist, would it not?
Isn’t one of the main founding pillars of the entire cyberpunk genre to teach the lesson that big monopolistic megacorps and an over-reliance on technology is a bad thing? Like, the story is to show how bad life would be under those circumstances, so you have technology that advances, and the law with it, but regular citizens cannot afford the new tech so they have to cobble it together themselves from the old tech they have in order to comply with the law set by the BBEG megacorp?
How do you have a cyberpunk society without all the bad parts? Such a society would have citizens that can afford or are provided new tech and thus the cyberpunk aspect would naturally not exist, would it not?
It’s just an arcadey cozy city builder like Townscaper, but with a cyberpunk coat of paint on it.
Cozy dystopia. God help me.