Stop buying shit if you want change and I mean in any industry.
so we should boycott every industry out there?
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the_q@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Gamers continue to tell these companies that they’ll put up with anything while complaining online and continuing to purchase shitty games from shitty companies. Rinse and repeat.
This is 90% on consumers. Stop buying shit if you want change and I mean in any industry.
Emerald@lemmy.world 11 months ago
hushable@lemmy.world 11 months ago
yes
the_q@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean, do you want things to change or do you just want to complain?
Buttons@programming.dev 11 months ago
They said nothing about boycotting the industry. Buy games from good companies and good indie devs, that’s not a boycott.
Jyek@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
90% on consumers? I don’t know I’d go that far… If a company is evil but provides a service people still desire, that doesn’t make the evil company being evil the fault of the consumers. Like saying gun control in America is resisted primarily by its citizens when we are well aware that company lobbying is mostly at fault and most citizens are actually for some amount of gun control.
the_q@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Anyone who supports a company knowing how they conduct their business causes harm etc, is complicit. Once that information is learned a choice has to be made.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 11 months ago
That only works if there’s meaningful competition. With megabrands like Nestle who make 1/4 of the grocery store, or game publishers like Ubisoft who receive 1/4 of the industry’s revenue any kind of boycott is dead before it begins.
In a society with a functioning government, megabrands who abuse their neighbors and/or customers would be hit with significant fines and be heavily regulated out of the bad behaviors, but the US hadn’t had a government interested in helping the common person for over half a century
Jyek@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I don’t disagree. I disagree with the idea that it’s 90% the fault of the consumer.
Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Way to shoehorn your opinions on gun control into a thread about forced ads in video games. If we ask j8cely, will you share your thoughts about Trump as well?
kaffiene@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He’s a cunt
pyre@lemmy.world 11 months ago
he’s a cunt.
Jyek@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Weird how I said nothing about my personal opinion on gun control and only said that the primary force stopping gun control was arms lobbying.
bitwolf@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Gamers as a population really have to stop FOMO’ing into the newest games because their friends do.
Even if it’s blatantly obvious it’s going to be or is a bad game people still buy them because of the network effect.
Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
The death of the sun will arrive before gamers actually do a boycott that is successful, because boycotts (especially for popular franchises or products) don’t work. If you rally up 10,000 people for a boycott, it’s less than 1% of sales AAA studios get and 70% of the boycotters are still going to buy the game regardless.
No change is going to happen ever, so the best thing to do is to start ignoring the AAA gaming industry altogether on a personal level.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 11 months ago
A boycott only works if there’s meaningful alternatives. When one publisher effectively owns an entire genre of games. Expecting consumers to boycott is exactly what the big publishers want because it’s inneffective, what the publishers don’t want is for regulators to start paying attention
Buck@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Voting with your wallet doesn’t work. Nobody will call you to ask why you didn’t buy a product, and marketing will just come up with a bogus reason on why sales are poor.
Talking about it on social media helps a lot more.
Syrc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can do both you know.
pyre@lemmy.world 11 months ago
this is what companies want you to think. it’s like expecting drivers to be sensible so that we can reduce deaths from traffic accidents. it’s not a solution. we have traffic lights, seat belts, all sorts of security systems and regulations on car manufacturers (though not nearly enough).
consumer protection doesn’t happen by telling everyone to be sensible. regulation is needed.
spraynpray@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
And how are you going to convince, let’s see, something like 130 million people to just go along with that plan?
Do you actually want change or are you just bitching?
pyre@lemmy.world 11 months ago
where did you get “don’t go outside” from?
spraynpray@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
chakan2@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes…there’s enough. There’s a reason a new car costs 30k. We don’t need radar, adaptive cruise, and fucking front facing cameras (yes, thats a real thing) standard.
I just want a heavy duty roll cage, a 200cc engine, and seat belts. All for 2k.
(The car safety standards are a sore point for me)
the_q@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And how do we get that, bud?
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 11 months ago
One congressperson at a time.
the_q@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hahahahahahahaha hahahahahah…