Comment on EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again

• dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe not, but individuals can choose where to spend their money. The masses will still buy this shit, but I am the kinda guy will will make his own life harder based on morals.

  Like I ain’t shopped on Amazon for years. Some stuff I just can’t find anymore. Not used WhatsApp for many years, makes it harder to join friend group chats. Etc.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The masses will still buy this shit

    The dark side of the XKCD comic Ten Thousand is that there’s always a new pool of suckers entering the market - people who haven’t gotten burned yet and think they’re getting something real.

    I am the kinda guy will will make his own life harder based on morals.

    I wouldn’t even call it morals so much at Once Bitten, Twice Shy. There’s a point at which you don’t want to keep doing business with people who make you miserable.

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  • SugarSnack@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I agree completely, but we shouldn’t kid ourselves that companies are going to go bankrupt because a minority of users are absolutist about in-game ads, or will sacrifice social connections to avoid using Meta products.

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is my argument.

      I don’t believe my choices have an impact at all, in fact they impact me more negatively than the things I avoid.

      But I can sleep at night knowing I am not giving them my money, or my business, etc.

      It’s like with the Reddit exodus and people thinking it would / will be the death of Reddit. The truth is they barley noticed we left and they certainly don’t care, but again morals.

      You never know, this thread could make more people think like this and make conscious choices where you can, for yourself so you know you tried to not be a part of the problem.

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