Full headline, because Dreamwidth's subject field length is still inadequate: "PSA: If you are unhappy with a game due to predatory microtransactions and DLCs, stop complaining and stop playing them"
I agree with this in part, but not fully. I already don't buy/play games like that[1]. However, I'm sure as shit not going to stop complaining about such things. The guy is absolutely right, though, in that complaining about this stuff does not accomplish a single goddamn thing at all (beyond providing a [dwindling] sense of catharsis).
It's like I have said many times in the past, myself. As much as I hate the modern video game industry for all the dumbshit it spews on a constant basis these days, I hate modern video game buyers/players at least as much, because if they weren't down there, with their gaping maws perfectly lined up with the sewer outflow pipe, the modern video game industry would not be up there, diarrhetically spewing all that dumbshit into the toilet for all these morons to blithely suck down. "Vote with your wallet" never works, and the people who say it know it never works, because far too many fucking idiots far too often "vote with their wallet" explicitly against their own best interests.[2]
To restate: Shit producers thrive on shit consumers. Shit consumers (often militantly) support shit producers. Circle of life.
On the one hand, telling people to "stop complaining and stop playing them" is laudable common sense. Because people should stop playing them. On the other hand, it would be best to keep in mind that quote that is misattributed to Albert Einstein: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get different results." Telling people to (yes, indeed) boycott games like that is worthless, because people are simply not going to boycott games like that, or at least not enough to matter at all. It never works. It's probably never going to work. That's just all there is to it.
And telling people to stop complaining about this shit is not going to work either, because fuck you, John Papadopoulos of website "Dark Side of Gaming," I'll complain about whatever I want, whenever I want. ¬_¬
For me, the order of annoyance probably goes like this, in ascending order from least to most annoying:
C'moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon modern video game industry crash.
[1] - Well, in the specific cases of Tekken or Calluhdoody or most of the other games mentioned by name in this article, I didn't care about any of that shit even before they were drowned in a deluge of modern video game industry dumbshit. Well, maybe aside from the earlier Mortal Kombat games, I guess. And The Elder Scrolls, of course, because even though he never mentions that by name, the header image on the article is of that asinine Oblivion Horse Armor bullshit (which, despite my post there, actually wasn't the first video game to ever have paid DLC, since MechAssault predated that by a few years[3]).
[2] - See also: giving campaign contributions to Donald Trump (or the GQP in general).
[3] - Not only that, but that MechAssault game was apparently one of the first known instances of on-disc DLC, too. Shit.
I agree with this in part, but not fully. I already don't buy/play games like that[1]. However, I'm sure as shit not going to stop complaining about such things. The guy is absolutely right, though, in that complaining about this stuff does not accomplish a single goddamn thing at all (beyond providing a [dwindling] sense of catharsis).
It's like I have said many times in the past, myself. As much as I hate the modern video game industry for all the dumbshit it spews on a constant basis these days, I hate modern video game buyers/players at least as much, because if they weren't down there, with their gaping maws perfectly lined up with the sewer outflow pipe, the modern video game industry would not be up there, diarrhetically spewing all that dumbshit into the toilet for all these morons to blithely suck down. "Vote with your wallet" never works, and the people who say it know it never works, because far too many fucking idiots far too often "vote with their wallet" explicitly against their own best interests.[2]
To restate: Shit producers thrive on shit consumers. Shit consumers (often militantly) support shit producers. Circle of life.
On the one hand, telling people to "
And telling people to stop complaining about this shit is not going to work either, because fuck you, John Papadopoulos of website "Dark Side of Gaming," I'll complain about whatever I want, whenever I want. ¬_¬
For me, the order of annoyance probably goes like this, in ascending order from least to most annoying:
- People who complain about modern video game industry dumbfuckery, such as me and
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owsf2000. - People who complain about people who complain about modern video game industry dumbfuckery, such as Mr. Papadopoulos here.
- People who complain about modern video game industry dumbfuckery while still actively giving money to the modern video game industry, such as roughly 99.9% of all people who buy/play video games.
C'moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon modern video game industry crash.
[1] - Well, in the specific cases of Tekken or Calluhdoody or most of the other games mentioned by name in this article, I didn't care about any of that shit even before they were drowned in a deluge of modern video game industry dumbshit. Well, maybe aside from the earlier Mortal Kombat games, I guess. And The Elder Scrolls, of course, because even though he never mentions that by name, the header image on the article is of that asinine Oblivion Horse Armor bullshit (which, despite my post there, actually wasn't the first video game to ever have paid DLC, since MechAssault predated that by a few years[3]).
[2] - See also: giving campaign contributions to Donald Trump (or the GQP in general).
[3] - Not only that, but that MechAssault game was apparently one of the first known instances of on-disc DLC, too. Shit.
