Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store

ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you’re trying to organise a rebellion via any privately owned company, you’re a fucking idiot.

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• endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah keep pissing off gamers. The pro consumer group that got lootboxes, battlepasses, denuvo, endless copy pastes and lazy remakes, nintendo and sony practises, shameless pay to win, day 1 on disk dlc, anti cheat that just blocks only linux users, not cheaters, kernel level anti cheat, ea and ubisoft clients on steam games and pay to win mechanics on already full priced games popular and successful.

  Apple is NOT ready for the way gamers are going to make this practise normalized and profitable.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As a gamer I have very low respect for other gamers ability to organise any levels of resistance to shifty business practices.

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    • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How they actually spend their money never lies. They moan, but they still pre-order shit like gibbering apes.

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• kayazere@feddit.nl ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If an app that is being used to coordinate a rebellion takes off the US government can order Apple to disable its use. I hope the degoogling Android trend takes off further.

  Apple already did this in Hong Kong to appease China. They took down apps that were used by protesters to coordinate, they even modified AirDrop so it couldn’t be easily used for ad hoc communication.

  9to5mac.com/…/apple-globally-censoring-this-iphon…

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s actually Epic’s fault this time. They pulled it from the EU app store.

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  • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Finding it hard to sympathise with either of these dickhead corporations.

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  • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Plus nobody playing Fortnite on an iPhone anyway

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes they are.

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      • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The article literally says they aren’t

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Imagine if now, at the height of their success, Apple finally decided, for the first time, to alienate the core audience they’ve always shown undying dedication to: gamers /s

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• MisterMoo@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They targeted gamers.

  Gamers.

  We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

  We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.

  We’ll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

  Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

  Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

  These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren’t shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

  Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another boss fight.

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  • Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have a very particular set of skills…

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• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  GaMeRs aren’t going to do shit to Apple lol. Fortnite hasn’t been on iPhones for years and Apple hasn’t been hurt one bit.

  If an app that is being used to coordinate a rebellion takes off the US government can……

  lol

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• fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There’s also Linux phones

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