wait, if voting with your wallet is the only thing that works, why do we need the chinese government to regulate microtransactions?
shouldn't chinese players just stop buying them?
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Yeah it's bullshit. They're literally removing freedom of businesses
You don't have freedom of buissness anywhere civilized
>yum yum tasty boot
The EU does it's job so well zoomers don't realize that before they stepped in over a decade ago, we used to have different cables and chargers standards for every single fricking phone.
Apple trying to make money by scamming users might fly in Asia or America, but the EU tries at least, not that you should buy Apple anyway.
As for Gacha, it's just unregulated gambling and the chink government is starting to sharpen the sword because too many of their youth are crippled coomers addicted to phone games.
It's the EU you bumfrick American. What the frick is "freedom of business" anyway, that's not even a thing in the US
Yeah, what's worse is that this will cause stagnation in evolving the USB architecture. It will have to move to wireless charging after this since you can't prove a new standard in the wired charger/data transfer sphere in the market place. It'll be usb-c and some sort of shitty Bluetooth successor in 15 years.
>can't prove new standard
The previous standard was micro usb, somehow usb-c proved itself.
Micro usb wasn't forced to be the standard by the EU
pretty sure it was
It was
It was. Apple included a lightning to micro USB adapter with all phones sold in the EU.
>freedom of businesses
no such thing exists in this world
>freedom of businesses
holy ESL, im starting to believe the poojet marketing bot conspiracy
>They're literally removing freedom of businesses
How deep is that cut wiener buried in your ass, Mr. American?
Because businesses are always evil especially the ones that spend a lot of money to say they're now
>freedom of businesses
Because the most important thing is that corporations be allowed to do whatever they want in pursuit of profit, no matter how shitty it makes society.
what freedom is being infringed upon, exactly? apple (and dozens of other companies) used to make cords for apple-exclusive charging ports, under the belief that they were somehow successfully exploiting the consumer. now apple (and dozens of other companies) make cords with universal usb-c charging ports that are compatible with new apple phones. in this instance it's purely pro-consumer as it should be.
What's good has your mutt's business done in the last 15 years? Set a surveillance device in every home?
>ESL moron instantly deflects to someone else when his precious country is criticized
Why are thirdies like this?
Good, businesses shouldn't have freedoms, people should
They should but they don't
voting with your wallet only works if consumers are all perfectly informed, care enough to change their decisions based on the information, and have a viable alternative. That's why regulations are needed. caveat emptor is fricking gay and moronic, stopping corporations from selling faulty/shitty products is one of the few positive aspects of having a government
You also have forgotten that it's easy to design systems in which voting with your wallet is impossible. Whale-farming works and almost entirely removes you from the traditional food chain. You can only vote against them once, but anybody who supports them can vote as many times as they like.
Gachatards are subhuman gambling addicts, they're not going to stop unless they're forced to.
normalgays who buy apple products deserve to be killed
Here's how voting with your wallet ACTUALLY works
>shitty AAA game comes out
>you don't buy it
>millions of moronic normalgays do
>shitty AAA games keep coming out cause they sell
>but at least you didn't buy any of them
>you focus on playing good games instead
this is how video game boycotting """works"""
Yes thank you for providing evidence how moronic normalgays are
Just don't do what they do, works every time
If 1 million normies buy something it doesn't matter that 1 guy "voted with his wallet", it doesn't prevent the product from controlling the industry or causing harmful standards
Read my post you fricking Black person
Your post is shit.
Your niche "good game" is eventually going to be remade into slop if everyone keeps buying slop.
The "good games" market that targets you will shrink until you have no choice other than to give up gaming entirely.
Got thousands of games in my library + backlog. I think I'll be fine
Keep playing AAA trash Black person
You're an actual moron.
If millions of people want to buy a game, why is that your problem ? Don't buy it and fund games and projects that you want instead.
>if millions of people support shitty options, thus making shitty options more and more common and non-shitty options less and less common, why is that your problem lol, just let people do what they want to do man
>why is that your problem lol, just let people do what they want to do man
Yes, why is people having shitty opinions your problem ? From my point of view most of yours are probably shit too, should I be seething about it ? What does it matter ?
if normies liked good games that i like then there would be more good games that i like made
>reee NPC
There are billions of people who love to pour rotten fish sauce on their rice. You guys are arguing the government should regulate fish sauce production so these companies would magically start making your favourite extra spicy Jalapeno hot sauce instead. That's not how any of this works, products need a market to be successful.
>it doesn't affect you!
>...okay it does affect you bu-but markets and shit, so nothing will change 😉
People eating rice with rotten fish doesn't affect you.
What affects you is the delusion that your favourite imaginary game would exist if only more people had the same tastes as you. It's an opinion most commonly seen among autistic kids that lack the notion that their favourite toys aren't everyone's tastes.
So keep playing your favourite video games. Other people have different tastes and seething about market dynamics making your tastes niche is just juveline emotivity.
Literally contradicting yourself anon. I'm not going to waste time repeating the very obvious point if you still fail/refuse to understand it. I'll just go back to playing vidya less and less as game become more and more shit, you just keep thinking how "unaffected" I am though lol.
You never made the contradicting point anon, the gotcha is in your head. You think that billions of people eating rice personnally affects you because they could potentially be buying food you prefer.
People loving CoD doesn't affect you. You don't make games, you consume them. Buy those you enjoy, and if nobody makes games you enjoy, that's a (you) problem.
when 90% of new food starts getting rotten fish put in it to appeal to rotten fish lovers it absolutely would affect me. are you moronic?
>just only eat from ever-dwindling niche food sources with no rotten fish bro!
^ affecting me
If you're part of dwindling minority, you'll get a dwindling supply of content that caters to you, yes.
It's not the others that are the problem, it's that your tastes are too niche for a market to be built around them. Either start making game, or offer enough money so your favourite games are made. You're not going to make other people share your niche tastes lol
>People eating rice with rotten fish doesn't affect you.
>Okay well it does, but it's actually your fault for not liking rotten fish
riveting discussion
You aren't affected. Literally. Nothing about you changes, people who make games will cater to respective markets.
Nobody is forcing to eat rotten fish and if a specific restaurant you used to go to makes a new recipe, it's your choice to stick to those you enjoyed or go somewhere else.
>how does the well-being and health of society affect you in any way?
>mind your own biz
>People having different tastes in video games will ruin the well-being and health of society
Touch grass and leave pol lmao
He's clearly replying to your fish scenario. I also don't understand why it's so hard for you to grasp that if a game sells well, more of that will be made which inherently decreases the amount of games that don't sell as well. Devs are then forced by management to make more of this popular thing instead of what they might otherwise want to do. Why do you think so many AAA games are so similar in design? Just look at Bioware and how EA managed them, with each game becoming less of an RPG and more of an action game. That's because EA thought that those would sell better than the RPGs Bioware was already making.
If the new Battlefront 2 had been a raging success with its ridiculous microtransactions, then that shit system would still be present, to the detriment of people who don't spend money on microtransactions. It's not some esoteric thing. It's an embedded mechanism in the market that naturally occurs
>Just look at Bioware and how EA managed them,
EA takes investor money, money from fifa/madden and from phone games to buy pc/console gaming studios and run them into the ground. this somehow worked so far because the gaming market has been growing so much that it just absorbs these failures. its not commercially successful in the strict sense.
Rotten Fish being popular means is significantly harder to find places to eat at that don’t force you to eat rotten fish or something similar. This in turn affects me because I now have to spend way more time finding places with actually good food.
And you know, maybe society as a whole shouldn’t keep feeding into their hedonistic desires and eating easy cheap slop?
So then people ARE affected just like we said.
>dude what the majority wants is the way to go, I heckin' love democracy
>just make your own game bro
Absurdly moronic post.
Just a coincidence that the invisible silent majority supposedly aligns with entrenched business interests. Whales are now the majority and everyone else is a minority niche loser
counterpoint: billions of people are moronic and its why we have laws to keep them from destroying themselves & others
oi m8, you got a loisence for that opinion, then?
Actual NPC.
This Anon 100% took the vaccine and fails to realise how compliance with government tyranny still affects those who didn't take it.
>Vaccines are tyrannical
America was a fascist communist nation over 100 years ago when Jacobson v. Massachusetts was decided
Hey check this out
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality#Negative
Aren't you both in agreement about that?
I still haven't paid for or played a COD game since.
Voting with your wallet works, it's just that it works by buying shit you actually like, which the broke morons usually chanting it don't want to admit so they can act like they're doing something by pirating everything or not buying some game they had no interest in in the first place.
Many such cases
>I'M VOTING WITH MY WALLET
>proceeds to pirate the latest shitty Ubisoft open world and telling everyone how good it is
Someone who pirates games is "voting" with their wallet just as much as someone who doesn't buy it. Playing a game or talking about it has frickall to do with your wallet.
Congratulations on only generating 10 sales for the company you hate 🙂
I generated zero sales for your shitty company because I didn't buy it.
see
Thanks for conceding. No more (you)s cause you can't even follow a simple conversation
I don't care about your dumbass greentext IAMSILLY strawman. See
You've moved the goalposts far outside the field of wallet voting, so you'll get no concession from me. Make a better argument.
Nta but pirating games you think are bad is fricking moronic
He's pirating games he thinks are good and then doing free marketing for them, generating sales
Don't bother with someone who can't understand that simple fact, he'll just screech about how he technically didn't open his wallet so he did le epic voting
The idea that a game MUST be good just because you played it is pants on head moronic.
>doing free marketing for them, generating sales
So where does my wallet play into this exactly? How does playing the game for free do this
>if I say le a bunch of times in my strawman I make his argument wrong!
>you can only vote by opening your wallet
Kinda giving the game away on this one
do you think this argument has ever worked even once to convince people not to pirate
I don't give a frick if you pirate, I want you to stop playing AAA trashfires, piracy or no
>I don't give a frick if you pirate
you and I both know that's not true. why not just be honest about how you really feel?
>actually the thing you said is just made up
Cool. Great argument, enjoy your christmas
you were pretty fond of that argument earlier. just be honest with yourself. say what you really feel.
Forgot to mention
>Newer good games stop being made because bad games make higher profits
>Eventually those old good games stop working due to having been made on ancient hardware but it’s ok because you can attach 20 mods to keep it running
>But instead of that, companies are rich enough to lobby for banning mods and for computers to be installed with spyware
>All older good games no longer work and getting them to work now means jail time
oh and it’s way less than millions of morons as whales make up a huge portion of profits, spending their life’s savings on microtransactions and gacha bullshit.
>Newer good games stop being made
Never gonna happen. Keep playing AAA trash, doesn't matter to mer
It’s currently happening right now.
There is only one game this year that wasn’t slop and I fully expect games of next year and further on to also be shit.
>AAA Black person
What a surprise
It's okay anon, you'll grow up eventually. We'll continue this discussion once you're older than 17
Name 3 good games this year.
You get one, since you're not arguing in good faith
Caves of Lore
You will now call a game you never heard of slop. Have a great day
Slop
>Eventually those old good games stop working due to having been made on ancient hardware
NEC 88 and 98 games work just fine to this day
He said good games
>>you focus on playing good games instead
ah yes
but you forgot what happens after
>Shitty games make more money
>Company shareholders see shitty games and say WE NEED SOM DAT MONEY
>Good games become shittier or stop being made
>as the years pass by your pool of games you buy keeps shrinking
Never in my life would i have imagined games like Marathon, GTA, Skate and DMC would be having microtransactions yet here we are
Those damn indie devs always bowing to their company shareholders
Stop playing AAA trash
>Indie games don’t make slop
>backpedalling from shareholder pressure
Thanks for conceding.
Indie games also make slop as they see X being successful and they need to make money as well.
Also indie games are only good once in a blue moon.
Black person i dont feel like playing walking simulators, pixel platformers and WEGS
Sucks to be you I guess. Enjoy your open world walking sims 🙂
inb4 seething about reductionism without seeing the irony
>My favorite games either suck because of corporate greed
>Okay play indie
>Indies dont make those games
>Sucks bro :^)
Sure, you sounded like you really did a deep dive into indie games to find out what exists
Keep seething about the state of AAA without changing anything, I'm sure that won't leave you bitter and dropping out of the hobby entirely
Answer this
What are some AAA equivalents to DMC?
Mental moronation it is then
Bayonetta
DOOM, sadly.
How about instead of looking at hundreds of indie games that aren’t shit, we can regulate games into being good and not slop?
How are you gonna regulate COD into not being shit? Banning microtransactions won't stop Ubishit being made, either
Easy
>Ban microtransactions, lootboxes, gacha, etc.
>Ban promotional material being in games
>Ban woke and wokism and change plot elements into not being woke (like S.S. Obama in Black OPs is now named S.S. Trump)
>Ban matchmaking
>Ban single player cutscenes you can’t skip
>Legally require all console to be packaged with KB&M accessories and legally require all FPS games to use that set up
>Legally require all multiplayer games to have deficated servers with modding capabilities
There you go. You now have pretty decent game on your hands.
>>Ban woke and wokism and change plot elements into not being woke (like S.S. Obama in Black OPs is now named S.S. Trump)
Epic for the win
>(like S.S. Obama in Black OPs is now named S.S. Trump)
banning wokeism doesn't mean going in the opposite direction. ban all references to modern/ongoing real world politics.
>How are you gonna regulate COD into not being shit?
by making it illegal to turn a 60 dollar game into a fricking ''service''
COD used to be complete MP games, people played them because they where fun and the games where kept alive by map packs
now COD is being kept alive by whatever FOMO shit they push out every fricking week that only serves to destroy balance and artstyle while the actual game suffers
COD has been shit since MW2, zoomie
the quality of the games is debatable
the fact is they used to be COMPLETE FRICKING GAMES
Okay what are some indie equivalents to DMC
>wait why do we need to ban weed????
Always the same reason, addicts do not have the mental capacity to resist and must be forced to
And yet tobacco will never be banned because of big baccy being in bed with the government. The hypocrisy never stops
Do ppl even smoke as much anymore?
Like 20 yrs ago, they kinda pushed smoking so far away, i might see like 10 ppl smoking instead of like 100 like I used to.
>>wait why do we need to ban weed????
Because see
>man took cannabis: and then removed his eyes afterwards he will just ran into things
If you do weed there is a very high chance you will gouge out your own eyes
>
Did you mistype something?
Freedom of business is honestly a meme in the same way democracy is a meme, the average person cant be trusted to make good democratic decisions, or good financial decisions.
This is slapped ontop of businesses and politicians doing everything they can to mislead customers/voters into gaining their support
Whole systems fricked, everythings fricked. Only recourse is to try and cheat the system and make a lot of money so you can skirt round rules
The system will never benefit (You) because you're not the one upholding it, not because it's inherently broken, but because it was designed that way.
NOOOOO NOT THE HECKING USBC THAT WE ALREADY PUT ON gayBOOKS AND IFARTS THIS IS LITERALLY FACISM
It is more fiscally responsible to make a game that you can expect 6000 people to spend $10000 on than a game where you can expect 1000000 people to spend 60 dollars on.
Because it doesn’t work and never worked and is a massive meme used to justify unethical, predatory business practices as part of the “free market” that can be removed without regulation if you just stop paying attention to them.
regulated capitalism is the best economic system
please excuse me i have autism, what am i supposed to be mad at? usb-c actually stays attached to stuff unlike micro.
>too fricking moronic not to rip out his usb cord
You have it backwards.
A society is a collection of interactions between people
A corporation is, essentially, a group of people who have a fiscal responsibility to make as much money as possible out of those interactions.
A government is a ruling body that regulates those interactions. We call these regulations laws. Without laws to prevent it, corporations would (and technically should) resort to whatever practice, no matter how unethical, predatory, or annoying, to make money out of interactions.
The USBC law is a good one.
That is a very based and well constructed sentence. A shame this thread is about to be obliterated for being off topic.
Does Apple have any popular game franchise on their iPhones anyway?
My ""hot take"" is that highly regulated capitalism (keeping a healthy dose of public stock trading, private contracting for govt projects etc.) is the best system for humanity. This makes both commies and lolbertarians seethe.
>my hot take is that I'm a liberal
congratulations on being milquetoast
It doesn't work because people are moronic and have too much money.
because psychology is a thing and you can get people addicted to your product and prey of their addiction, most people are voting with their wallets, it's just that you don't need most people in gacha games, 1-3% of them is more than enough
I think people miss the point of voting with your wallet
What it really means is
>Stop justifying buying garbage just because other people are buying it as well
No shit the average consumer is a moron, but give enough time people will eventually stop buying, the difference is how long it takes because some morons can't stop themselves from buying things for the sake of buying.
Just look at the difference between Saints Row and Pokemon
>Saints Row franchise goes to shit
>fans stop buying the game
>whatever morons bought their new game just aren't enough to cover the production cost
>company goes under
>Pokemon franchise get shittier every installment
>fans constantly buying the game because "I know it's shit, what else I am supposed to do? It's not like not buying it is gonna make a difference"
>company is still thriving thanks to countless morons who should have stopped buying ages ago
The only pokemon games I've bought in the last 10 years were Ultra Sun and PLA.
So, I have a LITTLE bit of willpower.
That's not what voting with your wallet meant
it's been 15 since I refused to buy oblivion horse armor
ever since everything has gone worse and worse
all my favorite franchises have been ruine
how much longer do I have to keep refusing to buy to see any change?
meanwhile some government institution ignores the vote of other people and just regulated corporations because they want, didn't even ask the 99% of satisfied customers who keep buying the product every year
what am I supposed to take from this?
That you have morons buying Bethesda games in the hope they'll magically fix it one day, and that's the one that have been keeping the company on life support
You never stop, anon.
>I am the bone of my sword
The industry of your hobby is imploding, expect hard times ahead or vacate to greener pastures. Indies are better than ever, and writing, music, drawing, exercise etc are at least as fun as it was 2000 years ago.
Don't sunk cost your free time anon.
You need to give your money to the ones who have their heart in the right place. Support the change you want to see. You may not be able to change the way other people spend their money, but you can definitely help the ones who try to make the kind of content they think is good and fair.
>Freedom for me, personal responsibility for thee
Here's how voting with your wallet -ACTUALLY- works
>You criticize a company or a game for any reason
>I tell you to vote with your wallet don't buy it if you don't like it
>You shut up and go away forever, all your dissent is now null and void
>I don't care what you do after that
Fixed
Anyone who thinks voting with your wallet is meant to be actionable advice is a dullard.
"Voting" with your wallet was always a lolbert meme to encourage inaction against their grifts. It's literally the "Don't ask questions, just consume product" meme but with the veneer of choice and making it seem like a democratic process.
>voting with your wallet is the only thing that works
This is your brain on americanism.
It's extremely upsetting to me that people worship the EU consumer guys.
I no longer have the energy to argue about it though, i'm just resigned
what's wrong with EU consumer guys
They're oppressing small businesses like Apple
to be fair they did some stupid shit lately, like making it so you can't remove plastic caps from bottles and if you just rip it off you're left with a piece of pointy plastic which will stab your face whenever you try to drink
Voting with your wallet has never actually worked and I think it was a psyop invented by corpos in the first place.
I voted for the Republicans but also made sure to help the Democrats with their campaign to generate as many votes for them as I could. Because that makes sense
>can only vote to affirm things
>no valid way to vote against anything, only abstain
>playing for free magically breaks these arbitrary wallet voting rules somehow
Whoever came up with the "voting with your wallet" is a genius. I mean, really, that is one brilliant piece of social engineering. What a great way to make people deny the existence of gradualism and entryism with a simple thought-terminating cliche.
Don’t forget
>People who support thing can vote as many times as they like
>Voting results aren’t based on population but rather profits
>Games can get almost no votes but because the budget was lent in someone’s pocket, it gets approved anyways
Consumers are moronic and need gov to tard wrangle em
The AAA cabal wants to kill gacha by any means necessary tbh. They can't stand that gacha devs are so much better than them.
>fast food steadily becomes worse for decades
>suddenly everyone starts loving rotten fish
>every fast food restaurant mostly serves rotting fish now
>what do you mean I should just stop eating fast food and eat real food instead? NOOOOOO REEEEEE I'M VOTING WITH MY WALLET
>USDA regulates that rotten fish cannot be served in any way in a fast food restaurant by law
>USDA didn't ask customers for their opinion
>USDA didn't put this decision to public vote
>USDA did not look at the record high profits from serving rotten fish
>customers don't complain about this supposed government overreach and infringement upon business freedoms
why didn't they complain anon?
GO leave
Too many stupid people with too much money.
Because majority of people are unthinking morons with zero impulse controll
I forgot to ask, what is the context of OP's post? Not the image I know what that is about, but what was said about microtransactions being regulated.
Voting with your wallet is bullshit cope. Its asymetric nature as a process means it cannot prevent things that must be very well, while it enables the worst shit ever easily. And it's ploutocratic in nature (duh): it doesn't matter that the vast majority of people almost unanimously is against something if even a tiny minority with enough money is willing to pay for it.
>absolute thinking
yet it is better than not doing it. because it doesn't fully solve the problem doesn't mean you shouldn't do it.
Some measures do need an absolutist touch. We didn't stop child labor or slavery by voting with our wallets. We made it illegal. Otherwise they would still be there - still are in places in which we're expecting to vote with our wallet to prevent it.
oh ok then im going to buy woke games and pirate good games
you re just conflating doing something with not doing something else
also voting with your wallet is a mentality that you can mass spread but you re not going to mass spread "get into politics and do this and that" + getting the approbation of people is always better and eases the process. if anything you should do things through debate and not violence because otherwiqse it allows morons to take over and wreck shit. the cuklture war should be won with reason and arguments instead of spreading disinfo and being inaudible with racist shit etc. when the average poltard will be a decent human being then maybe the culture can shift to something more reasonable
meanwhile not buying this shit is always a good thing to do
The market is not a perfect self-correcting entity. If you think a business is being scummy about what they're offering, the correct response is to both not buy what they're selling and spread the word that they're being scummy and why.
Ask yourself this: why do organisms like the Food and Drug Administration and the SEC exist, accusations of corruption aside? Why do we try to break up monopolies whenever possible? It's because there are certain things the market is not good at, protecting consumers chief among them.
There are many, MANY things that "vote with your wallet" will not solve. In theory, the free market should weed out any unsafe medicines that make it to store shelves eventually, so let's get rid of all safety checks and vote with our wallets. Companies defrauding people on a scale to match Enron? Don't like it, don't buy the stock. It'll work itself out eventually. A company has a monopoly on a necessary product? Don't worry about it, you don't need oil anyway. Vote with your wallet. That guy's running a pyramid scheme? Whatever, man. No need to get your panties all in a bunch. Don't like it, don't join it. No need to broadcast why it's a bad idea or anything.
>why do organisms like the Food and Drug Administration and the SEC exist, accusations of corruption aside?
You answered your own question in the same sentence.
>Why do we try to break up monopolies whenever possible?
Because smaller, ineffective companies lobby for it. Like your oil example where Standard Oil slashed oil prices to one tenth of what they were, still didn’t get a monopoly, and was then cut down.
>Companies defrauding people on a scale to match Enron?
Lying to sell a product is theft, which is an entirely different concept from, say, the government demanding we all use USB-C. It’s like claiming murder would be legal in capitalist society.
>You answered your own question in the same sentence.
No I didn't. If you're going to make a throwing the baby out with the bathwater argument against regulatory bodies you might as well ban all companies because corrupt ones like Enron happen.
>Because smaller, ineffective companies lobby for it.
you aren't making any sense. Why would regulations benefit corporations just because corporations also lobby that same government? They are lobbying exclusively for no regulations, or laws to screw over their competitors and give them monopoly. That's like disbanding an investigation into corrupt cops because the people investigating are cops too.
>Lying to sell a product is theft
Not under any Modern legal system. Caveat emptor it's your responsibility to do your due diligence and suss out scams on your own, not the government to nanny consumers by regulating against fraud.
I think you're misunderstanding (or misrepresenting) my original point: "voting with your wallet" is a decent enabler, but it's very, very poor at prevention.
If your aim is to make something happen, it can do wonders. With, again, the caveat that it's ploutocratic in nature. As
underlines, but it goes beyong that.
If you need something *not* to happen then it's very unlikely that you manage to make any significant dent that way.
Again, asymetric process.
>We didn't stop child labor or slavery by voting with our wallets.
Both were on the decline long before the laws that ended them were enacted, and when that isn’t the case you get shit like illegal child prostitution because they aren’t allowed to work anymore.
Child labor only ended back when it was made illegal. Voting with wallets didn't change that. Also the false choice with child trafficking is a really poor argument for child labor.
You can google child labor rates in the U.S. in seconds, you don’t need to lie. The only children still working by that point were the ones who actually needed to.
This is just an argument for child labor. They were higher before laws against it were passed and only increased again after those laws were loosened. The market did not solve child labor on its own
>slavery
The British Empire did most of the work by spending millions of pounds and a shitload of manpower stopping most of it.
And even then some nations like the Ottoman Empire (later Turkey) kept doing it.
>Noon the cable that provides 0 benefits over USBC but costs twice as much should stay!
Kys igay
>Corpos hire literal fricking Psychologists to use the most sinister pyschological tricks to trick the most feeble minded into spending infinite cash as if they are running a Casino
>WTF WHY WONT PEOPLE STOP BUYING
Heres a funny story OP
Most people on this planet are dopamine addicts, the way you get it varies but the least amount of effort that brings in the biggest dopamine rush brings in the biggest crowd
My country made online gambling legal so less people would do it and end up in huge debt, only thing is after making it legal the amount of online gambling tripled and so did the debt
morons would literally stab themselves in the gut repeatedly if our brains gave us dopamine for that
>Company deciding you're no longer their target audience doesn't affect you
>Pirating their games affects them even though you didn't support them
Something doesn't add up here
>Vote with your wallet bro
>When morons outnumber you 1000000000000000 to 1
lol ok
>vote with my wallet
>a million other people do as well
>Furry McOilPrince walks in and gives devs as much money as if each of us bought the game anyway
>if voting with your wallet is the only thing that works
It doesn't, the mass amount of morons still buying sloppa overpowers wallet voters
It's all IT patent licensing bullshit.
I don't see the vidya industry not taking the same path.
>You want to do this game design? Pay up first we got a patent.
>>You want to do this game design? Pay up first we got a patent.
Good. That means people have to come up with their own ideas instead of just aping other games
>CCP bans dailies on mobile games in china means it cares about the rest of the world
Have you heard about differences between TikTok (which is illegal in china) and their home-market version? They will probably push for more dailies in other countries.
In chinkland the chinks regulate you.
usb C is nice until it's stops working. How do I clean this shit? My cable doesen't connect all the way to the port anymore.
use a needle
The EU is literally ruled by commie satanist aristocrats.
Just because they made one good thing doesn't mean I'm going to forgive them for importing millions of Black folk and mudslimes into my continent. Or all the other purposefully bad policies.
Are there any countries left that aren't commie?
The EU is not a country.
Ok super trade blocks
He didn't say it was
Yet. The plan is there and we are speeding up on it.
The EU will never be a country because it would mean its aristocracy never gets to dismantle it. In 15 years it willl still be a supranational union but it will be full of brownoid dumb slaves.
asylum laws are entirely national law anon. every EU country can build a wall and block entrance to the country for non EU citizens. its perfectly legal to do so under EU law. the national governments themselves dont want that.
I don't really get how voting with your wallet works.
>Just don't buy it
How the frick do you stop morons with shit tastes from buying shit, especially since companies know how to let people vote multiple times?
Feels like bragging you hot someone for your party elected purely because you didn't vote for the opposition.
The only way I can grasp my head around it is if you're saudi oil prince rich and for some reason want to blow it all on video game majority of a company's stock to tell them to make good games.
>I don't really get how voting with your wallet works.
It's simple
It doesn't
Libertarianism is moronic.
If I don’t like like something, why should I support it being legal?
>but what if [thing I don’t like] happens?
If it does then I would be supporting it.
voting doesn't work, so why would voting with your wallet work?
voting with your gun works, not that amerilards remember how to do that anymore, or have the testosterone for it to begin with.
Pokemon proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that voting with your wallet is the meme to end all memes.
>Games go to shit
>Decide you're done buying Pokemon games
>morons buy BOTH versions multiple times over to spite you
Voting doesn't work when one side of the decision has unlimited votes and the other only has one.
Europe of fatherlands was the only decent proposal, everything else was pure idealism
Voters are too stupid to know whats good for them so sometimes you have to remove some choices from the ballot.
Death to all Applegays
>voting with my wallet
>here's my vote
Because people are weak.
You guys really think regulating video games is the most important function of government?
Like you think this matters at all
That's hilarious and sad, we are truly a broken generation
>the most important
are you having an episode, schizo-kun ?
>whataboutism
Dumb anime poster
The most important function of government is to ensure the citizens literacy, protecting them from gachashit up up there near the top though
the problem is its a slippery slope. now they start with banning really bad anti-consumer shit that nobody misses but soon they will start banning shit that some 50yo concerned mom in congress who has never played a video game in her life deems immoral or harmful for whatever reason and suddenly all your games get censored and gutted "to protect the kids"
we had that in germany in the 90s and it wasnt cool at all. almost every game released had to be drastically changed or censored for the german market and if the devs refused, the game became so taboo you were even legally forbidden to write or speak the name of these games in public. i shit you not.
Videogames are the largest entertainment market currently that beats cinema and music combined. Are you trying to say that the biggest entertainment market should not be regulated?
>shouldn't chinese players just stop buying them?
how has that been working for you so far?
voting with your wallet has never worked in a globalized economy, especially a globalized digital one where it costs nothing to appeal toa completely different market. votingwith yourwallet is adumb boomer meme like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.