I’m trying to understand your point, but I’m a little lost here.

Do you mean the way the public reacted to their ad?

Or the way they capitulated to that reaction?

I mean: Yes racism and sexism are pervasive in our society, but using Ben and Jerry’s (operating under the same racism/sexism) as an example; they do heavy marketing tactics toward LGBTQ but they are also an ally.

Does them utilizing that make them bad?

Can something be good and also a marketing tactic?

I wonder how people in the Middle East feel about Call of Duty.

Imagine getting thousands of kids addicted to gambling, while people still sing your praises. Cool world, cool people 👍🏼

But does Epic have a fan base that will ignore any and all bad actions taken by the company and viciously support it? No, that’s Valve fanboys

Right?! Nobody ever talks about all the kids they got addicted to gambling. Bang up job, there.

Kinda hard to have the retirement OP is suggesting when you run out of money in a month lol But I get your sentiment

To slot machines?

One of the orchestrators of this whole thing, Destiny, defends child porn and the use of slurs.

Ironic is putting it lightly.

*Patents should be banned.

Fixed it for ya. ❤️

My name is Brian Killme

Second Life 😤

Maybe not to you, but when 15,000 children have been murdered and an entire population is starving, then boiling a politician down to a single issue does make sense to me.

Typical American apathetic to genocide.

At least he cares about Palestinians. Unlike Kamala. Mrs. “Shut up, I’m talking”.

Jesus Christ, the character model and it’s movement are so fluid and well done. Game looks sick.

I don’t even think the ‘too difficult’ crowd will get behind this person. What an insanely stupid thing to try and pull off.

And if it is successful, all it will do is harm the gaming industry into hegemony.

Nah, sexually texting a minor isn’t a two sided thing. There is no justification for it. There is no ‘I’m not a pedophile’ about sexually texting a minor. The sexual texting a minor is the intent to do more. You don’t simply ‘play around’ sexually texting a minor.

Defending a pedophile isn’t a good look, Guy.

Such a shame because your friend sounds like a cool person. I think it’s just that the gaming industry has become so bloated and mismanaged that a lot of new products are hyped to hell, then face plant hard.

Not in the jurisdiction he was in, and that’s all that matters.

Also, while sending sexually explicit texts to minors (using only words) is not illegal, I’m pretty sure we can correlate what his intent was. What, do you think he’s going to come out and fully admit he’s a pedophile? No.

Also, nowhere in any of his statements has he clarified that he didn’t know they were underage. If it were the case that he didn’t know, that’s a pretty fucking big deal and he should know how important it is to explain that. He didn’t though.

Stop defending pedophiles.

You only need the first A for the fascism qualification.

I wouldn’t even call that ‘modding’. It’s counterfeiting.

We must have based humanity off the movie.

I wouldn’t call a company that got gobbled up by Microsoft ‘mighty’.

I wonder how many loot boxes will be made and how many lives ruined….

Phil Spencer, you have the luxury to quit if you don’t like the things you’re being forced to do for money.

Or, you could use your influence to try and push things in a different direction.

But Phil Spencer, you will do neither. You’ll shut up and keep dribbling.

It shows that the devs are willing to take advantage of the less keen eyed or a person in a rush. That is downright predatory and evil. Practically a scam.

You might be fine with giving your money to people like that, some people aren’t.

Because Xbox deck wouldn’t be made by a tiny gambling company. It would be made by a massive corporation with footholds for tech already established in practically every country.

And the whole world is just like you! Right? Impossible that somebody could be or think different.

You sound like a person who doesn’t have a problem with drinking that can’t comprehend alcoholism.

And Bobby Kotick runs away like a bandit, with all the money, after operating a company like this. America is fucking DOOMED.

Luckily, your opinion is unpopular.

Because society has deemed gambling a problem requiring regulation. These things exist outside that regulation while being psychology the same.

Also, gambling addiction has the highest rate of suicide of all addictions. And I think we should be trying to lower the amount of people that kill themselves.

Paywalled mods are debatable themselves. Throwing one of the most protected IPs that’s ever existed in the mix?

Lmao, yeah. Of course this would happen.

I’m surprised it hasn’t happened to Palworld directly.

Trading cards and gambling addiction have been studied for years. TCGs may not function the same as a slot machine, but it does trigger the same thing in your brain.

And that is what’s dangerous.

I would say yes, they are unregulated gambling. People also spend ludicrous amounts of money on cards. Though I don’t think that should factor into whether or not something is or isn’t unregulated gambling. It’s the chance product, not the money spent on it.

Yepp, while there are some fundamental differences, I think all these things are a form of unregulated gambling.

Fuck it, throw blind boxes in too.

And yet, Valve is touted as being among the most ethical and moral of gaming companies.

I think it’s funny that while Stake was getting blasted on Twitch, CS:GO sat quietly in its corner hoping no one would look its way.

There are people who have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on this shit.

It’s a problem.

Same argument could be made for Heroin that is illegal as fuck.

I don’t know about that. They run one of the most predatory examples of gambling in gaming.

The new EU ruling really brought to light how big of a problem the CS:GO gambling is.

Huh, that sounds really cool!

The only experience I have with anything like that is on the Razer Wolverine. It has toggles for both triggers that allows them to gradually go from 1-100 or instant 1-100. It’s an awesome feature and I love the “control” it gives me over my playstyles.

Haven’t been in the PlayStation environment since I’ve grown up, but y’all are eating good lately!