Comment

Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 developers have noticed 'a growing tendency of toxicity in our community'

For some reason people seem to experience the most rage, vocalization frustration, etc. when it comes to having their entertainment fucked with (whether pricing, content itself, etc). Companies can cause global recession or market crashes, be responsible for child labor resulting in death and dismemberment, or engage in flat out fraud, but those companies will never bring out the toxicity, death threats, entitlement, and communal anger like a video game or film/tv company that impacts the entertainment of the masses. When people used to think of the most evil company in America back in the early 2010’s, EA was more hated than Bank of America, Wells Fargo, or AIG. That never made sense to me.

source

Sort:hotnew top

CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

For some reason people seem to experience the most rage, vocalization frustration, etc. when it comes to having their entertainment fucked with (whether pricing, content itself, etc).

You should never fuck around with the plebs ‘bread and circuses’, especially if your government is not doing well.

source
- Copernican@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The defunct Consumerist used to run a poll. forbes.com/…/ea-voted-worst-company-in-america-ag… . It was always strange how EA beat out the companies that I think do more harm to society for several years.
  
  source
  - CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    For some reason it’s entertainment companies that draw a lot of vocal ire from consumers
    
    Just repeating myself at this point, but to answer (again) to your question…
    
    You should never fuck around with the plebs and their ‘bread and circuses’, especially if your government is not doing well.
    
    source
    Copernican@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Your comment was vague. I know there’s these days, but I was talking about a theme I have been seeing since around 2010. In the past 23 years we’ve had differing levels of inflation and what not, but entertainment seems to still draw communal vocal ire in ways that seem disproportional to more impactful issues caused by corporations.
    
    source
    -> View More Comments