• atro_city
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    735 months ago

    That’s the loud ones. I haven’t bought a single game from a Microsoft studio nor any game from Ubisoft. My library is nearly entire made up of games from indie studios.

    • @hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
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      175 months ago

      It also suggests that boycotts are binary.

      I’m sure you can see a noticeable decline in player retention for games from all 3 publishers vs the rest of the industry. And this goes for all of them.

  • Lucy :3
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    425 months ago

    I despise all of those companies to the core. More than average.

    • @Khanzarate@lemmy.world
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      195 months ago

      See but I’ve never heard Nintendo supporting genocide actively.

      Like, yes, they’re a corporation, they love money, they do stupid things to get money, but they’re not doing nearly the same shit as other companies I hate.

      Or if they are, I haven’t heard of it, it’s all been game key cards.

      The game key card thing feels like a clinton-blowjob level scandal while some other people are doing a whole genocide.

      Am I missing something?

      • Lucy :3
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        165 months ago

        I hate them more than average because they e.g. abuse their patent “rights” to the max, more than other companies.

        • Natanox
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          155 months ago

          This. Nintendo went so far to try patenting relative physics in games (I think that one failed, but they do hold a patent for throwing balls at someone to catch them). And if you wonder why you never see smaller round menus in games for conversation selection (but mostly a rather clunky list instead), that patent is held by EA or Bioware due to Mass Effecr. For a fucking circular conversation menu.

          I can’t eat as much as I want to vomit. This whole system is just perverted to the core and completely stifles both culture AND economy. They just register all this shit because patent trolling is also a business to them. It’s both profitable and weaponizable.

          • @Dagnet@lemmy.world
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            105 months ago

            Nintendo forced palworld to remove flying creature riding, they have the power (at least in Japan) to remove riding flying creatures in any game. Pokemon wasn’t even close to being the first game to implement something like that

          • Lucy :3
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            35 months ago

            I love that every german says “Ich kann nicht so viel fressen wie ich kotzen will”

      • @masterspace@lemmy.ca
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        What percentage of responsibility for that genocide goes to Microsoft? What percentage goes to Ford or GM or whoever sells them cars? What percentage goes to AWS? What percentage goes the people who make the roads they use?

      • @ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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        35 months ago

        If genocide is something you care about I wouldn’t be defending a Japanese company that existed in imperial Japan.

        • @Khanzarate@lemmy.world
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          I mean, the people in charge of Nintendo now aren’t those people.

          In 50 years, if Microsoft had gone co-op, withdrawn from genocide, removed telemetry, and like half a dozen other things, due to a change in leadership, I’d also not hold that future Microsoft as at fault for current Microsoft.

          I also don’t hold Volkswagen responsible for the Holocaust, presently. Just the emissions fraud (and maybe more that I can’t currently recall).

          • @ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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            Those leaders are still Japanese. A country notorious for ignoring and downplaying their atrocities. It’s like forgiving a Holocaust denier because they weren’t alive to drive the train.

  • @SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    185 months ago

    Why would the demographic of gamers prioritize games?

    Also i know over a dozen people personally that stopped playing all activision/blizzard games after that controversy.

    If people quitting WoW isn’t dedication to the cause I don’t know what is.

  • @hyperhopper@lemmy.world
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    115 months ago

    This is expected. Only one affects the gamers in the immediate short term. I’d be shocked if this wasn’t the case

  • Victor
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    105 months ago

    What did I miss regarding Microsoft? Helping the genocide? What??

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      175 months ago

      They provide Azure services and, like every single applicable American institution without exception, provide specialized assistance to help Israel maintain apartheid and (more recently) carry out genocide

      • Victor
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        45 months ago

        How though? How and why? Why do Microsoft have a vested interest in carrying out a genocide against Palestine? Or conversely, why do they want to help Israel carry out genocides?

        • @ToxicWaste@lemm.ee
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          Money. it is all just business. as long as israel pays for services companies will deliver. the only thing stopping them from delivering, is an embargo. but since microsoft is an american company, i dont think chances for that are high.

          • Victor
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            Money. it is all just business.

            Brother, eww. Money ruins everything. The end of a restaurant visit. A nation. Yuck.

          • Victor
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            05 months ago

            Hold up [yellow pages] YES MICROSOFT? WHY YOU GENOCIDE BRUH?

  • Cruxifux
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    Why do we care about what gamers think anyway? The rhetoric that comes from the video game subculture is just the most heinous garbage and they’re fucking losers.