Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle

• notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s not how this works, you don’t get to decide what is acceptable for other people. It’s people like you who galvanize Mastercard and Visa in trying to control what kind of content we’re “allowed” to purchase.

  To be clear this all sounds repugnant to me, but i realize Im not the sole arbiter of taste and have no interest in telling other adults what (legal) things they are and aren’t allowed to do.

  If the game is so bad it’ll tank, it doesn’t need outside forces influencing it.

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  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Um, he didn’t say he was deciding for others, he said he could understand how others would be hesitant… sounded like he was supporting your very point that people have a right to have their own opinion.

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    • notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The only reason someone wouldn’t want to sell something is because of pressure from others - you boil it down enough and the logic is “I don’t want to sell this because others will judge me”, which stems directly from others judgement, being my entire point.

      You can claim “Valve doesn’t want to sell it for moral reasons”, but they’re not a moral body, they’re a corporation - their only job is to earn money.

      The more people feel they can dictate what a retailer sells, the worse it gets for all of us, and retailers choosing to drop things rather than “roc k the boat” is a problem.

      Sure, this is a pretty repugnant case, but the slippery slope starts somewhere.

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      • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        People are free to pressure retailers on what to sell and what not too. Saying they can’t would be far worse. And the retailer is doing the job of making money… by following the 2ishes of the populace. This is the free market capitalist society we live in. Completly sucks, but it is consistent.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        the slippery slope starts somewhere.

        You know slippery slope is a fallacy right? The “slippery slope” can also stop anywhere.

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s not how that works. You don’t get to decide what a store does and does not sell. Steam refuses hundreds of games a year, this one doesn’t get special treatment.

    Saying “I understand why (store) would not want to carry this product” is not the same as saying “no store should carry this product.”

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    • notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not admonishing the store, as you said it’s up to them to carry what they like. I’m admonishing you and people like you for trying to exert pressure on the store to not carry something you personally don’t like, because again, you’re not intended to be in charge of what others sell.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        When did I (or anyone else) exert pressure on Steam to not carry this? My understanding is this is a decision Steam made.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’ve fabricated a straw man, and appear to be furious at it

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  • cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s literally how it works. If you run a store selling/licensing media you get to decide what’s on the shelves and what isn’t.

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