Whenever people make claims like “You have no natural right to intellectual property”, I’m very curious A) what is the fullest extent of the amount of IP they, as an individual, have worked to create, and B) how secure their living situation and finances are.
I find a lot of people shift their opinion after they’ve worked for years on something under genuine risk of it not doing well.
TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I’ve been arguing with people about this stuff for 20 years online and can count on one hand the number of other industry professionals that I have come across. As I mentioned in another comment; the tone, and tenor of these debates says far more about the type of people who like talking about video games online then it does about the state of the industry, or quality of products and services…
Most people have a very hard time grasping the reality that if they are here, talking about video games on the internet, that represent less than 1% of the consumer base. Some manage to walk right up to the line, acknowledging that most gamers don’t care about digital-only, or DRM, or MTX, or subscriptions… yet somehow still come to the conclusion that their opinion and resistance is the “correct” perspective and they know better than the 99%.
It’s a perennial example of false consensus and naive realism cognitive biases.