[Drawn Out] Rockstar & Sony Think You're Stupid

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• lath@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They are correct. The sales will prove it .

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  • Elting@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    In my experience, the consumers are stupid every time. Just being a customer cripples 90% of people’s critical thinking abilities. Even myself, walk into a store I haven’t been in and I am a complete and utter fool. The customer is always an idiot.

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    • dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      There are just so many potential consumers, even when a high-profile product is shitty enough people still don’t know, don’t care, or have FOMO that they still buy it.

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    • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m savvy when it comes to games but if I needed something for my car, for example, I’m just as stupid as the rest of the herd. These companies prey on this fact to take everything to the lowest common denominator.

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    • dudeface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The main thing is that even if you shift to a more exclusive business model and charge more people will just borrow to get your new thing because it is more expensive

      Nobody will be talking about any of this in a year anyway and it will be accepted as what is normal

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• mrfriki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Well, any corpo think that. And judging by how it is going I’ll say they are not wrong.

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• Cherry@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Grand game theft

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• alakey@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Considering there’s that guy who spent his 401k on GTA 6 copies not realizing there’s no disk, they are more than correct in that assessment.

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  • Appleseuss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think that was satire

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  • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That was 100% satire.

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  • BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Why’d he do that, scalping?

    I hadn’t heard of that event

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    • alakey@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Apparently that was satire, but yeah my impression was that someone was trying to scalp physical copies.

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• 64bithero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s not that customers are stupid it’s that customers are ultimately at times powerless. Certain things are forced upon by monopolistic tendencies. I believe full well there are still millions of PC players who would love to have boxed disc releases. But no stores in major markets carry any. No major publisher produces them. It was just agreed upon across industry to cut it off. Now look, you want to play on PC it has to be digital.

  And I know people are going to say “but but but it’s about digital rights not discs “ and there is some truth to that. Until every major company agrees to do the same horrible thing. And you have no competition to go to. You either deal with it or stop buying into the hobby all together.

  And maybe if we all stoped buying new games … but we all know how unlikely any of that is to happen.

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• Asafum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They misspelled “know.”

  Rockstar and Sony know you’re stupid.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Rockstar knows its audience and Sony is judg projecting.

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• mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Stupid like a FOX!

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