Everyone complains about traffic, yet still buy cars all the time.
An individual’s inability to alter the structural conditions that shape their decision making is not an indictment of said individual position on the matter. Hence why “vote with your wallet” is such a bad thought terminating phrase.
Sure, people can vote with their wallets, but if there are no good options then the point is moot. It turns into a no buy, disenfranchising those without the privilege of previously accumulating a collection of games. It pushes them into the “you are not a real gamer anyway” territory.
Thus, why it is always ethical to pirate video games. It is the only sensible choice for a have not.
Elroc@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Yep, every time the industry does something heinous gamers just bend over and lube their asses.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Right, as evidenced by the Stop Killing Games movement getting over a million EU citizens to do a direct democracy, all on a shoestring budget, setting up multiple NGOs to counter lobby gaming lobbyists, and pursuing a broad swath of legal avenues to secure better consumer rights and/or actually have existing consumer protection laws actually be enforced, around the planet.
Oh, wait, no, thats nothing like just whining and then acquiescing.
Sure, yeah, there are a lot of hypocritical whiners.
But there’s also a lot of people who are a bit more serious.