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

  • Prunebutt@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Unless it’s a structured, concentrated effort, I’m afraid that individuals boycotting won’t do much except saving you a few bucks. I don’t see that happening, considering the track record of gamers.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI6BNvxmWD4

    If you live in Europe/Australia and bought tne Crew, there’s something going on about creating a precedent that would forbid games as a service getting killed by Ross Scott.