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Stop Killing Games — An initiative to stop publishers & developers killing games (www.stopkillinggames.com)

submitted 1 year ago by kittykittycatboys@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@beehaw.org

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also see the creator's youtube video about it: https://youtu.be/w70Xc9CStoE

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[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Setting legal precidents and regulating the industry are musts to curb this behavior. But we also have power as consumers. The ol' "vote with money" if you will. There are too many uninformed consumers for this to have a huge impact, but keeping our money away from bad publishers and giving it to good ones will help.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I want to apologize in advance for the aggressive tone in this comment. It's the only thing that comes out. I'm not angry at you, not at all - I'm angry at videogame publishers and at the current situation.

Has "vote with your wallet" ever worked? Literally ever? Maybe when the stars align. If the path to a better world requires everyone to be educated, and it's more convenient for the vast majority of everyone to just keep going with whatever shitty system is currently being used, then nothing will change.

You know what works? Government regulation. Remember the ozone layer? Have you noticed how it's not a problem anymore? That's not because everyone got together and agreed to "vote with their wallet" by never buying anything that depleted ozone, which requires a crazy amount of research with every purchase. No, it was solved by the government (or governments?) banning the sale of anything ozone-depleting and cracking down on it. That's what works.

Voting with your wallet is an illusion.