Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat?

PushButton@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This doesn’t work. It will never work. You can’t shame conscious consumers into voting with their wallets while the other 99% keeps buying the bad practices.

  Thing is, if nobody on Lemmy, and literally nobody in general who cares about anticheat, buys GTA 6, you know what effect that would have on the company’s bottom line? None, they’ll make record profits.

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So now you try to convince the 99% of players that are buying the bad practices, that a magic (to them) program that prevents cheaters is bad (since “has too much access” doesn’t really explain anything). They don’t care and won’t care.

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    • InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They applaud it even.

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      • GhiLA@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        …still not buying it.

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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Exactly.

      It’s like promoting Linux to people: Why would I care that my operating system is open source? Or free for that matter if I pirate it anyway?

      Some people never will care.

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Right, well they are trying to start a campaign to popularize the comment you just made. Or at least that’s my understanding

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• FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Absolute dogshit strategy. 99% of people will always buy the game so you not buying won’t matter in the slightest.

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  • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why would they listen to your personal complaint if you, singular, are going to buy it anyway? Your voice only matters to a company if it means you won’t buy their product otherwise.

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    • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You’re not listening to what I said. I said that most people will buy the game and there is not a damn thing you can do about it. Msot people are fucking idiots. You can morally decide not to support it by not buying the game, and that’s perfectly reasonable. But it won’t do fucking shit because all the idiots will still buy the game. That’s just how the world works because most people don’t give a fuck.

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      • bitwolf@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        There is a network effect to popular games.
        However as more people stop buying the network effect gets weaker.

        Its happening visibly with the new Call of Duty. Many i know bought it and then stopped playing shortly after because much of their friends are waiting for sales now or just find the game bad.

        Those people will be thinking twice before buying next year.

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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Money mumbles. Don’t buy the game, and also actively notify the company of your decision and why. Twitter, feedback form, steam review, whatever channel lets you get that message across.

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• p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So do mega-corporations with more money than God, like Microsoft.

  And they already said no to root-level anti-cheats.

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