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It's pretty simple. Because we are all so spoiled and entitled that we won't even consider NOT buying their shit anymore. It's the same reason the video game market has grown rampant with micro transactions. They keep pushing the boundaries, and we keep giving them our money regardless of what they do. I'm actually curious to see how far they can push this insanity. They already slap a new year on sports titles every year and somehow sell the same game to the same people annually.
PUT YOUR WALLET DOWN.
The amount of people on Reddit who shill for companies like EA and Activision is shocking.
Once wrote a comment on the lines of 'sadly, British gamers mostly have terrible taste in video games, 90% of us don't give a shit about anything unless it's GTA, FIFA or Call of Duty. We literally reward companies for shitty consumer practices.'
Most of the replies I got were calling me an asshole and were acting like I'm trying to police what people can like/dislike.
But still, Electronic Arts make record-breaking profits because... EA Sports: It's In The Game (you bought last year)
Any platform you find corporate asshole lickers. They are the worst.
We also all (in the US especially) collectively choose Chinese made products over domestic options as if the only consequence is that we pay less money and are thus a savvy customer ... helping destroy a huge portion of the middle class that worked in manufacturing.
Maybe the robots would've gotten things where they are now eventually, but nowhere near as fast.
Best one of the newest releases is Street Fighter 6. Not just a full price game with a yearly season pass, which is fair for a service game and additional content, but also more frequent battle passes and the cherry on top, not only you pay for additional costumes as before, but each character has only 2 colors available. How much for a simply different RGB value you might wonder, a whopping over $100 for all colors. Didn't buy this well executed game, because I refuse to partake in this.
This set the precedent for Mortal Kombat 1 DLC which is also filled with high cost and still charges outrageous money for new Fatalities.
At this point thought can we really victim blame? Like were all just advanced moneys and it turns out almost every monkey in this environment will get addicted and capitilists are happy to use that maliciously.
It issue is systematic at the least, and I can almost gaurentee won't be solved in the next century by a couple people voting with just their wallets
It's both. We are both simultaneously capable of free will, yet are also products of the universe that created us. So my answer to your question, in my humble opinion, is yes. Yes, we can victim blame while simultaneously lamenting the corporate landscape.
Let's make this simpler. This corporate greed is a problem, yes? What actions have you taken to remove this problem?
Total and unquestionable revolution.
Just take a peek at history and the times things changed 'peacefully'
(ghandi didn't go on a hunger strike to look skinnier that's for sure)
Agreed. This is why I download mp3s and buy CDs still. Radio and Spotify streaming is good, but honestly, a better idea or service would be free group book reading events and coffee, help those budding writers etc to share ideas and increase the entropy and size of our universe lol