Boycotts don’t work when John Gamer spends hundreds of millions on microtransactions. I could never buy another EA Sports game for the rest of my life, and all it takes is one whale to wipe out ten of me boycotting. The economy of boycotting games is completely broken at scale when whales exist, and companies know how to cater to them.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The SKG movement should become the Stop Buying Games movement if they don’t listen.
SteveNashFan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Trail@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But if the whale does not have 10 other people to play with and show off their whaling, then they won’t whale no more on that game.
You are the plankton accompanying the whale (wtf am I typing while shitting in the morning) even if you are not paying directly, you support the ecosystem. No other players to play with, then suddenly it’s a boring game.
khaleer@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
This is why they put micro-transactions into single player games now 😅
jabberwock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I get your point but look at any harbor in the Mediterranean when an event comes to town, it’s full of super-yatchs. The rich will always be fine peacocking for each other, and yatch builders manage to stay in business just fine. I realize it’s a bit different since there’s a whole social aspect of the game, arguably the whole point is to play with others. I just don’t see the bean counters having that foresight.
I’d put more weight behind IP law, where if a company chooses to shut down an online game then it gets treated like abandonware and they cannot pursue fans who run their own servers. That does put the onus on the fans at the end of the day, but I think in the long run it would make companies more willing to appeal to a wider audience if we always had an open model to fall back to.
Deconceptualist@leminal.space 2 months ago
Or “Stop Renting Games” since we only get a digital license on most platforms that can be revoked.
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
This is not true. Don’t spread this false “you don’t own your games” narrative.
You buy a perpetual license for a copy of the game. It’s called a license because you are not buying the actual game but a copy. It’s exactly the same way other software works as well as music and other media.
The whole point of SKG is that we do own our games but publishers are trying to act otherwise.
Here, Ross who started SKG explains it better.
imecth@fedia.io 2 months ago
Nobody's giving you a perpetual license to anything, even GOG, any license you're "buying" (this keyword is actually not allowed on stores like steam for exactly this reason) can be revoked at any time for whatever reason they want.
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
That’s just not true. Inform yourself to save future embarrassment.
You are confusing licensing and terms of service.
Strider@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I support skg but also I stopped buying (aaa) games a long time ago, and I can’t be the only one. We’re the people who have enough disposable income but simply won’t support shit but beancounter managers are too stupid to realize it would be easy to get if they’d just show a little decency.
🤷
zqps@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yeah. There was a statistic about Steam a while ago showing that the percentage of recent releases by playtime was steadily declining. People have their classics, they outgrow competitive games, they don’t want to upgrade their PCs as much with current prices. This was masked for a time by overall steady growth in the gaming sector, but this is slowing down.
mecen@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
No buy from gog and show that there is money in being consumer friendly
DillDough@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The Nazi storefront? How about just fuck all corps, either steal it or do the transaction directly with the devs.
mecen@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
How do you plan to do transaction with devs…
bless@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
PayPal ofc. Wait, that gives Thiel money…
DillDough@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Take a look at stuff like Vintage Story and Bellum…or og Minecraft lmao. Did you think your comment through at all?
kablez@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I stopped buying and playing Ubisoft games years ago. Far Cry 4 I believe.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Think the last one I bought was Rayman Origins
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
that’s decades
atro_city@fedia.io 2 months ago
Gamers are less capable of self-control than heroin addicts. Trying to get them to stop buying games is a fools errand.
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Looking at you sports and COD gamers 👀
taiyang@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To this day I’ve still failed to talk my stepdad out of buying Madden games… even when they no longer work on Windows 10 (and of course Linux) so he’s having to upgrade… Sigh.
87Six@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
You kids these days have no respect
wife asks for 70 euro dress
beats wife
pays 70 euro for madden 20 reskin, plays madden
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I don’t get those two kinds of gamers. You’re paying over $100USD every year to continue to play fundamentally the SAME game. Just that ALL your progress and cosmetics/teams are essentially wiped and you have to spend hundreds of dollars to reacquire them. And they say some games are “too grindy.”
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
We can all start with ourselves, which is easier first step.
The only games I purchase are from GOG with 2 exceptions of 2 portal games on steam.