After reading today EA’s takes on AI and strategies about boosting user monetization promoting and exploitation of user’s gambling addiction, I asked myself “How can someone defend those company agains boycotting and piracy?”.
So here I am: is there somewhere a curated list of VG companies to absolutely avoid giving money too? If not, do you thing we should do it? It would be nice to have a list with arguments and sources in order to make more publicly relevant the ethical and strateical reasons behind piracy.
p.s.I think it’s ok if you pirate things even without a moral stand behind, especially if you can’t afford games and other media at all, but the arguments still apply
High on the list for sure, near Nintendo BTW
EA, Ubisoft, Nintendo, Sony(particularly, Sony if youre buying digital, Sony doesnt give a shit if your purchases suddenly go ”missing")
For me its Ubisoft, EA and Nintendo.
For simplicity, I have it in regex format
.+Jokes aside, Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, Nintendo, Activision-blizzard and Nintendo are the ones that come to mind.
If indi and plays well on deck, I’m generally on paying.
Don’t forget Nintendo.
If it’s publicly traded, just don’t.
The one exception I have is id, but I also don’t preorder, so if they fuck up the next Doom or Quake, I’ll know before I buy anyway.
