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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?

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mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨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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