After reading today EA’s takes on AI and strategies about boosting user monetization promoting and exploitation of user’s gambling addiction, I asked myself “How can someone defend those company agains boycotting and piracy?”.

So here I am: is there somewhere a curated list of VG companies to absolutely avoid giving money too? If not, do you thing we should do it? It would be nice to have a list with arguments and sources in order to make more publicly relevant the ethical and strateical reasons behind piracy.

p.s.I think it’s ok if you pirate things even without a moral stand behind, especially if you can’t afford games and other media at all, but the arguments still apply

  • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Do you really need a list to tell you what to buy and not buy?

    I mean it really doesn’t take that much effort to avoid those companies you don’t like.

    Keeping a community list seems stupid, everyone has different things they like and don’t like, and the gaming community isn’t a personal army, despite what others might think.

    • Kir@feddit.itOP
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      6 months ago

      Damn, man. Are you alright? Why are you so stressed?

    • EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Eh with the amount of bs companies do it gets pretty hard to keep track of

      Plus most people don’t really have the time to dig into all of that