Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 developers have noticed 'a growing tendency of toxicity in our community'
Copernican@lemmy.world 10 months agoFor 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.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You should never fuck around with the plebs ‘bread and circuses’, especially if your government is not doing well.
Copernican@lemmy.world 10 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.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just repeating myself at this point, but to answer (again) to your question…
Copernican@lemmy.world 10 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.