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Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures?

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Why would they? Most people didn’t know about the petition until a few weeks ago, and I think people are largely knee-jerk supporting their favorite streamer (in this case, PirateSoftware). I don’t think there’s a concerted effort here to kill it, just people coming out of the woodwork now that it got a lot of attention.

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descartador@lemmy.eco.br ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This may have killed piratesoftwares career

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- sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Perhaps, which I think is really unfortunate. I think he misread or misunderstood what the petition was about, and doubled down instead of taking a step back.
  
  But he’s not going to be making a bunch of accounts on random message boards like Lemmy to try to kill it. The more reasonable argument is that some of his fans and other people who disagree w/ the petition are attacking it, not that he or the games industry cares enough to come here and spread FUD, I think regular people are dumb and emotional enough to do that for them.
  
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  - mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    Perhaps, which I think is really unfortunate.
    
    I’m not concerned with it. I’ve looked into it a bit, and it seems like PirateSoftware ruined his own reputation. It just took his very visible cockup in that WoW raid for people to realize that he lies a lot and refuses to acknowledge when he’s wrong.
    
    I think he misread or misunderstood what the petition was about
    
    Possibly. I’m not going to speculate on that because it’s not really important.
    
    But he’s not going to be making a bunch of accounts on random message boards like Lemmy to try to kill it.
    
    I doubt it as well. I’m more suspicious of corporate astroturfing. And Lemmy isn’t too small of a target for it, since astroturfing is pretty cheap.
    
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    sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yeah, I haven’t found a reason to care about PS beyond showing courtesy to people who went out of their way to provide receipts for their claims. I also haven’t seen enough to warrant ruining his life. That’s about as much effort as I care to spend here.
    
    The bigger concern is what happens at the EU. Surely that’s where corporations are going to focus their energy, because it’s a lot easier to convince some bureaucrats than millions of gamers. Sure, some negative press helps, but the real impact is made by lobbyists.
    
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  - descartador@lemmy.eco.br ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Why not? He’s done that in other plataforms
    
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    sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Do you have specific examples of him making multiple accounts to amplify a message? If so, that would certainly change my opinion of him and would explain a lot of the unsubstantiated claims made here.
    
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  - mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    Perhaps, which I think is really unfortunate.
    
    I’m not concerned with it. I’ve looked into it a bit, and it seems like PirateSoftware ruined his own reputation. It just took his very visible cockup in that WoW raid for people to realize that he lies a lot and refuses to acknowledge when he’s wrong.
    
    I think he misread or misunderstood what the petition was about
    
    Possibly. I’m not going to speculate on that because it’s not really important.
    
    But he’s not going to be making a bunch of accounts on random message boards like Lemmy to try to kill it.
    
    I doubt it as well. I’m more suspicious of corporate astroturfing. And Lemmy isn’t too small of a target for it, since astroturfing is pretty cheap.
    
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