PsychicSykes wrote:Tafdolphin wrote:Because I think it's cutting off your nose to spite your face. I think it's giving in to hyperbole and fear of change. I think it's childish.
It actually annoys me even more than all those reasons should annoy me though. I think it's to do with my extreme aversion to anything related to 'Gamer' culture and its trend towards lowest-common-denominator reactions and flocking behaviours. I hate that the hobby I love is so full of people willing to review bomb games because of a business decision. It's only a few steps down that road until you get to harassing women because they've pointed out the sexism in games, or doxxing reviewers because of a score.
Something like that.
As for good reasons, I've had this convo. Any reasons people might have for not buying from Epic pale in comparison to similar reasons if the same standards are applied to Valve. They're both terrible companies with terrible business practices. If you don't care enough about that with one because it got there first, you can't stand on a high horse when it comes to the second.
Do you really think that people prefer Valve because it was the first launcher of the two?
Since you disagree with reviewbombing as a concept (Even though it has previously helped during instances where publishers/developers were in the wrong), what in your opinion is the appropriate protest to not wanting to support the games exclusivity period on Epic Store?
Firstly, I don't think any strawberry floating protest is warranted. At all. This is not some company taking your freedom, or curtailing your consumer rights...this is free market capitalism. This is one company steamrolling in with its buckets of cash and gaming the system. This is late stage capitalism
as designed. If this development upsets you, you haven't been paying attention for the past 10 years. There are far worse examples of this to get angry at, and for much better reasons and this is why this whole thing makes me so apoplectic.
Secondly, review bombing isn't a form of protest it's a form of vandalism, the equivalent of scrawling on
Marx's grave because you dislike the current political discourse. Gearbox made a business decision to launch exclusive to Epic. Perhaps the guaranteed funds from the exclusivity deal allowed them to take a punt at BL3 in the first place? Perhaps it gave them the freedom to experiment and make it a better game? All this disappears in the crucible of Gamer Culture where to deny habit is to trespass on the sacred. To deface previous games' Steam pages is an unthinking refusal to engage in nuance or discussion.
This is not a situation that requires protest. It's a situation that requires that people actually strawberry floating engage with the concepts of the systems behind the business of games and the market in general. It's a situation that requires understanding and comprehension of the greater causes behind the disruption Epic are making. Those who want to protest can do so by educating themselves rather than reacting with violent acts. Like I say, this sort of hair-trigger outpouring of rage is what led to GamerGate and the legacy that still continues to plague the culture of gaming today.
