I don’t know about you, but I’ve been pretty successful at it. I don’t buy predatory games, and I do buy non-predatory games. There are tons of non-predatory games, so I have a fantastic selection.
Some people will buy these games regardless, in fact many will. It doesn’t mean you have to.
Sure, and I can’t control systemic problems. I can control my individual purchasing choices, and my point is that you can too. And what do we call large scale individual choice that results in systemic change? A systemic solution!
Buy good games and avoid bad games. That’s the most effective thing you can do to combat predatory practices. Maybe it won’t solve the problem for everyone, but it’ll solve the problem for you.
Your choice doesn’t change this system. The people who fall for this shit matter more than your nonparticipation, by an order of magnitude. Only a slim fraction of them need to pony up five actual dollars per imaginary hat, to make this widespread abuse worth spreading wider. Which is why it’s fucking everywhere - and not going away - despite people like you, chiding others ‘just don’t buy it!’
I’m already not doing it. It’s still a problem, and it demands fixing, and me not doing it plainly will not suffice.
Right. One person’s choice can’t. But one person’s choice turns into recommendations to others, which turns into more and more people making those choices.
That won’t kill predatory games, but it will preserve non predatory games. As long as options exist, I’m satisfied satisfied.
Yeah, you’ve made clear you don’t care if people besides you get tricked into throwing away money. What does a systemic problem matter, so long as you, the protagonist of reality, are safe?
Flip it the other way around. Who am I to say their choice of video game is incorrect? Is it really my responsibility to prevent them from making stupid choices? They’re either adults or have adult guardians, and therefore are capable of making their own choices.
I don’t like gambling and tell others they shouldn’t do it, yet I think they have the right to do it if they want. Likewise for drugs and other “bad” habits. I can’t and shouldn’t control their decisions, even if I’m convinced they’re terrible.
How they choose to get their dopamine is their business, and how I choose to get mine is my business. As long as we can both get what we want, the way we want, I’m happy.
This is just ‘it makes money so it can’t be wrong.’ People chose to get scammed, ergo, not a scam. Zero concern for how they were manipulated into it. In fact, you’ve explicitly told me, any manipulation is 100% fine, unless it’s overt lying. Hooray for the unlimited right to coax money from rubes!
You don’t have to care, because you’re immune to propaganda.
Surely that abusive source of easy cash won’t affect the options available to you! It’s only half the goddamn industry, so far! So long as a game exists, where you can just own it and not be hassled to keep tipping the robot, it’s fine. It’s fine! Who gives one solitary shit about this hundred-billion-dollar behemoth convincing your kids that addiction and frustration are what video games are for?
Who I am, to say someone is being taken advantage of, is an empathetic human being with working eyeballs. Calling people stupid for being taken advantage of blaming the victim.
We were never gonna shop our way out of this abuse.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been pretty successful at it. I don’t buy predatory games, and I do buy non-predatory games. There are tons of non-predatory games, so I have a fantastic selection.
Some people will buy these games regardless, in fact many will. It doesn’t mean you have to.
Systemic problems aren’t about you.
Sure, and I can’t control systemic problems. I can control my individual purchasing choices, and my point is that you can too. And what do we call large scale individual choice that results in systemic change? A systemic solution!
Buy good games and avoid bad games. That’s the most effective thing you can do to combat predatory practices. Maybe it won’t solve the problem for everyone, but it’ll solve the problem for you.
Your choice doesn’t change this system. The people who fall for this shit matter more than your nonparticipation, by an order of magnitude. Only a slim fraction of them need to pony up five actual dollars per imaginary hat, to make this widespread abuse worth spreading wider. Which is why it’s fucking everywhere - and not going away - despite people like you, chiding others ‘just don’t buy it!’
I’m already not doing it. It’s still a problem, and it demands fixing, and me not doing it plainly will not suffice.
Right. One person’s choice can’t. But one person’s choice turns into recommendations to others, which turns into more and more people making those choices.
That won’t kill predatory games, but it will preserve non predatory games. As long as options exist, I’m satisfied satisfied.
Yeah, you’ve made clear you don’t care if people besides you get tricked into throwing away money. What does a systemic problem matter, so long as you, the protagonist of reality, are safe?
Flip it the other way around. Who am I to say their choice of video game is incorrect? Is it really my responsibility to prevent them from making stupid choices? They’re either adults or have adult guardians, and therefore are capable of making their own choices.
I don’t like gambling and tell others they shouldn’t do it, yet I think they have the right to do it if they want. Likewise for drugs and other “bad” habits. I can’t and shouldn’t control their decisions, even if I’m convinced they’re terrible.
How they choose to get their dopamine is their business, and how I choose to get mine is my business. As long as we can both get what we want, the way we want, I’m happy.
This is just ‘it makes money so it can’t be wrong.’ People chose to get scammed, ergo, not a scam. Zero concern for how they were manipulated into it. In fact, you’ve explicitly told me, any manipulation is 100% fine, unless it’s overt lying. Hooray for the unlimited right to coax money from rubes!
You don’t have to care, because you’re immune to propaganda.
Surely that abusive source of easy cash won’t affect the options available to you! It’s only half the goddamn industry, so far! So long as a game exists, where you can just own it and not be hassled to keep tipping the robot, it’s fine. It’s fine! Who gives one solitary shit about this hundred-billion-dollar behemoth convincing your kids that addiction and frustration are what video games are for?
Who I am, to say someone is being taken advantage of, is an empathetic human being with working eyeballs. Calling people stupid for being taken advantage of blaming the victim.