militech seems to me as bad as arasaka

[Dorfo]

would you side with militech or maestrom after watching edgerunners militech looks as bad as arasaka but it's in the shadows when arasaka acts as principal

[Grobut]

Because they are. As are Night Corp, and Bio Technica, and Kang Tao, etc etc.

The only difference between these corps in terms of how villanous they are, is how much power they hold right here and now, and how much they can get away with and influence as a result. Arasaka has the most pull at the moment the game takes place, so they can do a little more, but Kang Tao would do the same in their shoes, as would Militech.

[Halko]

Arasaka is the king corp in NC while Militech has its own major cities it operates out of. You see a hell of a lot more bad out of Arasaka because it is their home turf and the plot of the game revolves around them but every other one is just as bad in their own right. Its also hilarious that 40 years ago when cyberpunk was first written the writing was already on the wall for this setting considering the current corporation owned hellscape we live in now. Though i guess its been easy to guess it was going to happen since the early 1900s.

[Ryvaku]

If you really think about it. All corporations are pretty bad.

[JKjoker]

There are no good corpos. The story just focuses in Arasaka in particular.

[Halko]

Originally posted by JKjoker:

There are no good corpos. The story just focuses in Arasaka in particular.

Well not really true. There are good corpos if you mean the people working for the corps its just that the good ones never make it above peon and are butchered by the successful ones to climb higher up the ladder. You know just like real life.

[Dorfo]

Originally posted by Halko:

Originally posted by JKjoker:

There are no good corpos. The story just focuses in Arasaka in particular.

Well not really true. There are good corpos if you mean the people working for the corps its just that the good ones never make it above peon and are butchered by the successful ones to climb higher up the ladder. You know just like real life.

more many people prefer to work with meredith corp over dum dum / royce maesltrom.

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

There are no white hats in Cyberpunk 2077 imo. That includes the player character and all of the other major protagonists, and all of the game's factions. The only true innocents are (arguably) the monks, the homeless, and the poor. It's an extreme corporatocracy which has corrupted every facet of life, and things we would consider reprehensible in our own world (I hope, at least... I sometimes wonder these days) are completely normalized.

[Dr.Abscondus]

They're all the same. It's like having to choose between Microsoft and Amazon as the lesser evil.

[GarfieldCultist]

I wouldn't say Militech is good by any means, but they're definitely not as bad as Arasaka. The situation with Meredith Stout attests to the fact that they aren't "good guys" but they prefer working with the closest thing this setting has to "good guys", such as Morgan Blackhand, while Arasaka prefers working with people like Adam Smasher.

That said though, there is a heavy emphasis there on "closest thing this setting has to 'good guys'". Morgan Blackhand tries to keep collateral damage to a minimum and tries to keep as many people alive as possible while doing jobs...but he still takes jobs such as planting nuclear warheads within Arasaka Tower.