I think people were interpreting the “that provides an anarchic dojo for development in applied cooperative bargaining, or negotiation” part as a descriptive corollary rather than part of the definition, but real genre definitions have to concern taste and purpose more than any formal properties of the rules of the games. If something is good for that, whatever form it takes, cohabitive game enjoyers will enjoy it. That could encompass a lot of kinds of games.
And so we get this tricky disagreement where my bar for whether something is good at teaching cooperative bargaining is naturally higher than most peoples’, because I believe I can see things just over the horizon that raise the bar a lot, so by comparison everything we have today does not seem like a suitable dojo to me.
If a person doesn’t see those things over the horizon, then they’ll disagree about what counts as good. If all you think there will ever be is the set of diplomacy and (so called :<) negotiation games we have today, then you should recognize the current best of those as good.
I think people were interpreting the “that provides an anarchic dojo for development in applied cooperative bargaining, or negotiation” part as a descriptive corollary rather than part of the definition, but real genre definitions have to concern taste and purpose more than any formal properties of the rules of the games. If something is good for that, whatever form it takes, cohabitive game enjoyers will enjoy it. That could encompass a lot of kinds of games.
And so we get this tricky disagreement where my bar for whether something is good at teaching cooperative bargaining is naturally higher than most peoples’, because I believe I can see things just over the horizon that raise the bar a lot, so by comparison everything we have today does not seem like a suitable dojo to me.
If a person doesn’t see those things over the horizon, then they’ll disagree about what counts as good. If all you think there will ever be is the set of diplomacy and (so called :<) negotiation games we have today, then you should recognize the current best of those as good.