I’m just trying to explain to you that YOU might do your thing, but YOU do not sway the industry.I’ve known and understood the dangers of dark practices, yet those companies were rewarded regardless of me not buying into them and warning others.All I’m saying is that you and I represent an insignificant minority of money in gaming, and if the majority won’t shop for PC hardware, that will cease to be sold. Completely. You and I will not change that.

Like I said, I understand your Resistance is Futile story. As a separate topic for self-exploration, you might want to reflect on the outcome you’re actually trying to achieve, and why you’re going all-out to explain that being defiant in the face of the unacceptable is pointless.

Anyhow, since all of that nonsense sucks ass, I will continue contributing zero dollars, and zero cents to non-essential industries that sell shit that i don’t want, at price points and with subscription schemes that I didn’t ask for.

The other example that I set, is not striving to be the bucket of ice water dumped on other people’s refusal to bend the knee.

In the simplest of terms, I’m advocating for fighting for your life when attacked, and you’re suggesting that you may as well do nothing when attacked, unless you know you will win.

I’m telling you that we are in a minority.And that unless we can convince at least 50% of gamers to not buy into that, we lost.EA should have been bankrupt twenty times over, but people keep buying their games.Same as with everything.I keep fighting, but this fight has been lost since the start.

I understand your thesis, but am offering mine as a wholesale replacement instead of a rebuttal:

1. The entire gaming industry produces non-essential goods.

2. No one video game, nor the entire industry, have a monopoly on entertainment.

3. I dictate what products and services I want, the video game industry does not.

4. If the industry doesn’t produce products that I want, the industry gets zero of my entertainment dollars, or attention.

5. I can and will spend my entertainment dollars elsewhere, and have experienced zero stress as a result.

Why “fight” an industry that needs you more than you need it? They cannot stop me from disregarding them, which certainly makes getting money out of me a challenge.

I cannot stress enough how much of a Them problem this actually is.

Do you play Call of Duty every release?No? Because millions of people do.Do you think your actions are offsetting that?Because they are not. Nobody is going to sell hardware to a couple thousand folk who won’t get in with the times.

Based on your tone, you come from the Randy Pitchford school of public relations.

If you’re uncertain about what I’m getting at, my recent spending on Borderlands, and Borderlands related goods, averages out to zero dollars and zero cents.

I admire your optimism, but I think this will get used as leverage for a push to cloud gaming. The end goal is for is to own nothing.

They’re certainly welcome to attempt selling that to me.

They won’t like the outcome, but that’s more of a them problem.

Well the pop would only cause more issues like lack of funds for anyone to even afford one of those things.

Possibly, but this doesn’t diminish my desire for that bubble to pop sooner rather than later.

What im hearing is that if we want those things sooner and at a reasonable price, we should do anything and everything possible to pop the AI bubble.

I did myself the disservice of watching a synopsis of the game to see what the hype is all about. All spoilers known.

Holy shit am I going to buy the hell out of this game anyway.

I can see how buying EA could be the harbinger of doom for an unwise purchaser.

Sounds like he’s trying to jumpstart the Butlerian Jihad through taunting.

This Randy fellow is sure good at public relations.

Message received. Never pay for this game.

I’ll avoid any controversy by not buying the game, and spending elsewhere.

It might be a demographics thing, but instead of getting pissed off, I’m willing and able to simply let sentiment and any sense of fealty die.

Never mind calming a sense of anger, how will they get me to feel anything about their product?

I love Nintendo. I have all the residual warm memories, plus the disposable income to buy a Switch 2. I am the easiest segment of their established base to market to.

I’m not mad, I’m just not going to buy anymore.

In time, Nintendo will be something I used to love.

Are they trying to usurp EA as the most reviled or something?

Oh noes, suspended from Shitter.

Adjusted for inflation, the money that I have spent on EA products since the Mass Effect 3 debacle, works out to about zero dollars, and zero cents.

Scorched earth.

The very core of my entertainment spending philosophy is to never buy EA products.

Clumsily, and in a way that harms revenue.

This is the guy that was sexting a child, right?

That (your read) is precisely how I meant it.

Attention laid off workers from the gaming industry:

I’m one hundred percent ready for working, complete games, that don’t require subscriptions, and can’t be bricked remotely. Make them, and I will buy.

I will buy your products. I will buy them instead of the product being churned out by the companies that cut you.

I thought he was dead.

What a meaningful life.

This is sad. It’s probably because Sony doesn’t make money.

Holy shit

We apologize for the confusion and angst the runtime fee policy we announced on Tuesday caused.

There was no confusion at all; the collective response was appropriate, given the specifics of the policy.

Sync user here. It’s the reason that I found reddit usable. The effort that has gone into creating and refining the app is evident. I like it better than the the other apps, because it feels like home to me. I also enjoy the concept of u/spez unintentionally spotlighting lemmy, and literally tossing over the very best that reddit had to offer. Sync is just one of several excellent options already here, or on their way.

The free apps are anywhere from very good to very work in progress. I like Connect the best from what I’ve used. I expect that they will all improve over time, and have noticed improvements over a short length of time.

I actually enjoy the controversy/buzz over pricing, pricing models, privacy, and so on. This is mostly because I’m petty,and believe that all of this is hastening reddit’s demise.

I will purchase Sync Pro for lemmy when it comes out.

It’s been an outstanding app for me on the old site, and I look forward to firing it up again in a much better online environment.