"The timing is impossible to ignore": Stop Killing Games says Ubisoft attended "invitation-only" meeting with EU Commission ahead of response to campaign sparked by The Crew shutdown, but it "was not invited"
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    • SteveNashFan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Boycotts don’t work when John Gamer spends hundreds of millions on microtransactions. I could never buy another EA Sports game for the rest of my life, and all it takes is one whale to wipe out ten of me boycotting. The economy of boycotting games is completely broken at scale when whales exist, and companies know how to cater to them.

    • atro_city@fedia.io
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      6 hours ago

      Gamers are less capable of self-control than heroin addicts. Trying to get them to stop buying games is a fools errand.

        • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 hours ago

          To this day I’ve still failed to talk my stepdad out of buying Madden games… even when they no longer work on Windows 10 (and of course Linux) so he’s having to upgrade… Sigh.