@Barighm: A world where companies abuse people and their employees are typically knowingly conductive to the system of exploitation. A world where Google employees raised protests and quit when they realized they were being used to contribute to Chinese censorship and American military AI contracts. I live in a world where people should have morals and shouldn't pass the guilt of doing evil up the chain of command. Truly evil people are rare but the people who enable them seem to be a dime-a-dozen these days.
@Barighm: In what world do you live in that you can classify a person who knowingly contributes to a game that will target vulnerable people to make bad financial decisions as "innocent"? You can't kick the responsibility for these things upstairs. You can't be the good guy when it's your job to be conductive to a system of exploitation and abuse.
@megagood2345: I said exactly that death threats aren't the way to go about it but you have to look at the context that the threat was issued under: being targeted by unscrupulous economic practices. It's like casinos offering free chips to addicts or a bar giving people drinks to break their sobriety. Nobody is guilt-free in this situation and you shouldn't let go of the root cause of the problem just because someone threw out a threat of violence. You shut the threat down and continue addressing the problem.
@Ragnarok1051: Bullcrap. These companies deliberately try to appeal to people with inhibition and gambling issues to make money off of them. It's not even a secret that gacha games are designed around the 0.1% of ultra spenders. Are death threats acceptable? No. But we shouldn't be quick to defend the people who target the susceptible to make money.
He's clearly more pissed that Twitch is using his account to advertise other streamers after he dumped the platform than he is about the porn. Can't say there's much respect to be found for Ninja here.
You're right Google it is not Netflix: It's worse than Netflix. With Netflix every title is free if you pay your subscription. With Stadia, you're still charging for the vast majority of games with no real benefits over consumer options that are already on the market that don't have game lag and keep their games when the service shuts down.
Next Google will complain that people think they're being shady, Wal-Mart will complain about being cheap, Coke will complain about being acidic, and Trump will complain about being mean.
I'd like it. But I question if a Mace Windu who sat out the entire empire rule in some cave would have the same effect as he did when he was the fire and fury in the Jedi Counsel. How could you rectify Mace Windu as the type who'd never give up the fight for justice with the fact that he was gone for over 50 years while the Empire set up shop and crushed so much that the Jedi stood for?
@wildog2006: Microtransactions that give random rewards are the problem. Lootboxes are the problem. Gacha games are the problem. They incentive the most exploitive mechanics that we've seen in the industry. Going after microtransactions themselves is a dead-end and for better or worse we're stuck with them as part of the industry.
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