Activision and Xbox have teamed up to release full screen ads for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on the console's homep…
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Meanwhile, over on Reddit, several members of the Xbox community have labelled this marketing stunt “vomit inducing” and “unacceptable”.

People still on Reddit want someone to take their complaints seriously? Empirically speaking, they will accept this.

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People still on Reddit want someone to take their complaints seriously? Empirically speaking, they will accept this.

Nah, it’s more than the communities on places like Reddit and lemmy/kbin are so small and unimportant relative to the overall consumer market that you can pretty much ignore them completely.

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Yep, that’s more significant for sure. People on any online forum are a loud minority.

It is a cheap dig, but I just found it funny that people who have demonstrated with (lack of) action that they do in fact not care enough to change their habits use a term like “unacceptable”.

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They are the same people who complain when a news story alerts them to the fact that facebook is collecting their data. They whine about how the govt should do something about this egregious act, and then share that with all their facebook friends.

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and of course they refuse to engage in politics and vote for people who want to restrict advertisements.

fucking vote, people

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Picture related will never not sum up internet boycotts.

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