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Jim Sterling on anger and corporate bullshit

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Jim Sterling's best piece in quite a while. Unlike pretty much anyone else, he keeps track of all the corporate bullshit from the past decade and still brings up things from the archives of the Interwebs, which renders all companies' excuses moot. As he says here, anger from gaming communities directed at publishers is just the sign that we've had it. Finally gamers at large have realized that inaction and hiding behind excuses does nothing.

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He's not wrong but the main issue is that there's not enough gamers actually doing anything. The number of those who do something versus those who do not is vastly in favor of those who do not. Until it's a majority pitching a fit, nothing's gonna change.

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in almost everything, the majority is silent with a tiny, noisy minority making changes happen. In most cases, the quantity of people means far less than how loudly and persistently they shout.

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Normally, you'd be right but if the silent majority is still buying into the corporate bullshit and they're making money, the loud minority will be ignored.

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The silent majority's money isn't doing much to stop the ridiculous overreaction to loot boxes.

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19 hours ago, Doctor Destiny said:

He's not wrong but the main issue is that there's not enough gamers actually doing anything. The number of those who do something versus those who do not is vastly in favor of those who do not. Until it's a majority pitching a fit, nothing's gonna change.

I agree with this. Day one DLC, microtransactions, P2W, lootboxes, and whatnot work because people pay for them and make them work. I'm sure that there are people with addictive personalities among them as well as children and other people who need to be gated away from this, but the majority is in full consent, so to speak. As long as the cash rolls in, it's not going to change.

Even Star Wars Battlefront II was still a financial success, even if it was a PR disaster.

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36 minutes ago, Nmenth said:

The silent majority's money isn't doing much to stop the ridiculous overreaction to loot boxes.

That's only because EA pulled an EA and did something stupid, forcing it into the limelight. Short of that, people still buy lootboxes and I don't see them going anywhere any time soon.

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