• @[email protected]
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    746 months ago

    It’s the unchecked capitalism.

    Better labor protection and antitrust laws would help, but the fundamental push is towards maximum exploitation of worker and customer. Power consolidates and then abuse for profit becomes easy.

    • @PseudorandomNoise
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      16 months ago

      It’s unchecked because customers don’t really care. When is the last time there was a boycott of a game due to how the developers are treated?

      • @[email protected]
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        106 months ago

        Capitalism doesn’t get checked by consumers, there are a billion things too much to properly pay attention to and no viable alternatives.

        It gets checked by either regulations and laws or replacing it with something else.

        • @ampersandrew
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          66 months ago

          There are so many viable alternatives. I’ve got an increasingly long list of things I won’t tolerate in games anymore, and I’m nowhere near running out of games to play. The big problem is being able to identify which of those checkboxes are checked or not; PC Gaming Wiki is working for this purpose lately, though it shouldn’t be necessary.

      • @[email protected]
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        66 months ago

        Boycotts are only one tool in the box. Legislation should be addressing things like consolidation of power and anti consumer practices.

        Unfortunately, the US has one far right party that has many lunatics that don’t believe in government (along with other insanities), and one center-at-best party that does that wield power effectively.

      • @kat_angstrom
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        16 months ago

        Boycott is a strong word, but I know that I and many, many others decided not to purchase Disco Elysium based on how all that drama went down. And I know I’ll never buy HiFi Rush after the way Microsoft closed that studio while simultaneously lamenting how they wish they had more games like that, because I don’t want to reward bad behaviour.

        Same reason I haven’t bought anything from EA in a decade, and I’m really on the fence about supporting Ubisoft at this point too.