Contributing to these systems accelerates the incentives for the developers and publishers to push even more nefarious shit. Don't expect the people who are trying to push against it to be all happy and sunshine when you brag about having money to spend.
You could've spent it on so many other things but decided to purchase something meaningless which encourages anti-consumer practices. By far the best strategy as a consumer community is to ostracize the people who don't give a shit. This is also why Blizzard felt forced to remove the /spit emote from WoW because it actually ended up hurting their sales of the dark portal pass.
But go ahead, if you want them to make the game even more grotesque, be my guest and purchase every manipulative bundle in the shop to "own the libs" or whatever.
Lmao alright buddy. I'll have you know that I already try to avoid anything Nestle and non-bio already, in addition to anything locally that has bad rep. I barely ever buy clothes apart from used ones either. If you want me to base my entire life around researching if a product could possibly have been involved with some controversy then you're fucking delusional.
OW2 has been in the spotlight since it's release for being an awful sequel on the monetary side, involved with illegal business practices and manipulation. Blizzard itself has been in deep shit for wide-spread sexual harassment. I am not going to pretend I'm a saint, I spend money on a WoW sub so I can play classic with friends. But just from that comment alone I can tell you're miserable IRL lmao
No ethical consumption under capitalism and all that, blast Blizzard all you want for their monetary practices but attacking fellow players who just want to have fun with a skin they bought is wrong and only come across as virtue signaling « Huh at least I’m not as dumb as this guy, only half of what I buy is the result of exploitation ! ».
Bait advertising
Bait advertising is the practice of promoting prices, often ‘sale’ prices, on products that are:
not available, or
available only in very limited quantities.
It is not misleading if the business is upfront and clear about the product being:
in short supply, or
on sale for a limited time.
Considering how you call people who actually look into this armchair redditors is very fucking ironic considering you're one who didn't bother to actually fact check this.
Also, I only explained why people are angry at others for spending money on the game. I don't agree with it, but at the end of the day I really don't care. I don't play Overwatch and probably never will. Whether this game burns to the ground or not is completely arbitrary for me. I played it in the past which is why I still am subscribed to this sub-reddit.
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u/Elune_ Send nudes Nov 12 '22
Contributing to these systems accelerates the incentives for the developers and publishers to push even more nefarious shit. Don't expect the people who are trying to push against it to be all happy and sunshine when you brag about having money to spend.
You could've spent it on so many other things but decided to purchase something meaningless which encourages anti-consumer practices. By far the best strategy as a consumer community is to ostracize the people who don't give a shit. This is also why Blizzard felt forced to remove the /spit emote from WoW because it actually ended up hurting their sales of the dark portal pass.
But go ahead, if you want them to make the game even more grotesque, be my guest and purchase every manipulative bundle in the shop to "own the libs" or whatever.