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

• BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Exactly, every time I say ‘I’m thinking of putting up a Factorio server, you want in?’, they are significantly less likely to be playing (or paying for) the newest game that has kernel-level access. Why, because we are playing Factorio for the next few weeks together and Factorio is fun.

        Factorio isn’t the only game we play, but the point is to reinforce yours. If you are playing fun game x, your friends are more likely to play x instead of something else. Even if they have no care about Kernel-Level access, the fact you do affects their buying (and playing) patterns.

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