Comment on #StopPayingGames

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Being frank, nothing will come of a movement about consumer rights if it looks like you just want to get things for free.

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Listen, as long as we allow corporations to ruin culture we will never be happy. There is no magical world where we respect copyright and corporate rule and get what we want.

    Your opinion is simply wrong for multiple reasons. That is okay.

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    • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Picture a neutral voter reading two different headlines. Importantly, picture the voter’s reaction. How they show support in legislative bodies is important.

      1: Purchases of newer video games have gone way down. Consumers are reportedly pirating them instead.

      “God, the younger generation is so incredibly entitled. People slave away on these things and they just want to steal them? Makes me think that ballot question they had about ‘Stop Killing Games’ was just about making them easier to steal. What pathetic thieves.”

      2: Purchases of newer video games have gone way down. Consumers are reportedly buying many indie games instead.

      “Wow, I should look into some of these ‘indie’ games if they’re so good. Sounds like there’s a lot of money in them now! If they spend that much on the hobby, I guess it makes sense they’d push that legislation about consumer rights.”

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      • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Picture actual headlines.

        Gaming is pricing people out of the hobby

        You don’t own what you purchase

        The major players are using their monopoly powers to drive up prices

        All the major studios that make the games you love were bought up and now are being shuttered

        AI is replacing programmers and artists

        Also, we ain’t winning this battle by convincing the poors to care about video games preservation.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I can’t dictate whether or not you pirate; I just think you can help influence the world in a more positive way if you don’t. There are games made by people who worked hard and aren’t employed by a corporation. I would encourage you to buy from them, because they did hard work, and you can show that you value it. Games have the good fortune of being more democratized than other media, so even if they have the lion’s share of the market, you can go on enjoying video games, even paying for video games, without giving those corporations the time of day.

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      • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You don’t have to explain to me, I already know. I said you were wrong and I meant it. There is not going to be a corporation that is not enshitified. Did you miss all of the independent studious being bought up and now closed.

        They are destroying our culture and the best you can muster is buy ethically? We are far beyond the rhetoric now. Like I said before it is okay. You have not really thought about what is going on and there is no shame in that.

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  • M137@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You’re so fucming wrong and so fucking dumb it’s not even funny. Every single comment you’ve made here shows an immense inability to understand basic things and a major lack of knowledge about anything related to any of this.
    It’s almost impressive, but in truth just sad and cringe.

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    • PerfectDark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “You’re…so fucking dumb”

      Moderator here. Drop that kind of message please. Consider this a warning. You can make your point without resorting to this nonsense

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    • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Could not be more obvious you have no counterargument, this is flat out fucking pathetic.

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• MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It is something a corporate shill would bring up.

  This is such a pathetic, thoughtless dismissal of an argument.

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    First thing that is brought up is piracy and you think it is something other than what a corporate shill would say? The only thing that is pathetic is another bootlicker showing up to muddy the water with garbage.

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