Sometimes video games come out of the virtual boundaries made of pixels, screens and fantasy worlds. We often hear about touching stories related to this world, or high -level competitions in which there are millions on stake. It happens very rarely, however, that they are touching topics of world relevance. Helldivers IIthe cooperative shooter of enormous success of Arrowhead, he succeeded.
The main event event has just ended “Heart of democracy“, in which users were called to defend the Super earth from the invasion of the alien breed of the Illuminati. And in the midst of the diplomatic conflict between China and the United States, Beijing’s Embassy in Washington wanted to remember cooperation between players around the world, regardless of their origin. “Not just a game: a virtual land united by the players through the borders”, reads the post dedicated to the topic. “While the aliens attacked a virtual land, the players from China, the United States and other countries formed an unexpected global alliance. Coordinating among the time spindles and with common sacrifice, they defended city such as Shanghai and New York, transforming pixels into real human ties “.
Obviously, the reactions of the network did not wait. There are those who expressed disbelief For the mention of the game by such a high profile institution, while others commented with irony the similarities between the Beijing regime and the “controlled democracy“which governs humanity in Helldivers II. And again, a slice of users recalled the various events, such as the invasion of Tibet or the protests of Piazza Tiananmen, in which the behavior of the dragon authorities was far from the intention of preserving the freedom Which, in the fictitious universe of the game, is at the center of the propaganda of the Federation of the Super Earth.
Obviously, those who have looked at more or less false hope have not been lacking in the possibility that video games, an ever bigger world but still still considered a niche, can settle the international conflicts that shake the difficult period that we are all experiencing, underlining how decisions to exacerbate the relationships between nations, to trigger wars or to raise the tension in delicate areas of the world are
attributable to single menwho influence the fate of millions of people who would just like to live with peace of mind, perhaps defending super earth with friends who live in oceans away.