• Boozilla@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    As usual the problem is people will bitch about it… but then they will do it anyway. We always forget that voting by keeping our wallets closed is a powerful defense against bullshit like this.

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      2 months ago

      Exactly. Don’t reward this kind of behavior.

      Unfortunately, we Americans have proven that most of us would sell our very souls for the smallest convenience…and corporations know it.

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      2 months ago

      I’ve watched gamers en masses say this shit for 15+ years, and you know what’s interesting? These companies STILL do it.

      EA still sucks. Ubisoft still sucks. Layoffs are still happening. Corporatization still rules. DLC still went rampant. Games as a service still is a thing.

      Interesting.

      Almost like boycotting and hand wringing and rambling endlessly with whiny virtue signaling online hasn’t made a difference at large.

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      2 months ago

      I’m boycotting EA since Origin and Ubisoft since UPlay, don’t use Epic and I think I only bought one Denuvo title before boycotting them as well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      The problem is more that most people don’t give a shit in the first place.

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      2 months ago

      I honestly respect the people going so far to buy the game just to badly review and then refund it. I just don’t buy games with such stupid crap (well, except Doom Eternal which I bought because I overlooked the rather small golden box and actually even forgot that I linked a Bethesda account years earlier for some freebie or whatever it was).

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      2 months ago

      I think it’s more that the vast vast majority of people just do not see creating or using an account as a negative.