jiggles wrote:Nothing, really. I've put some things on the shelf because it, say, wasn't the right time to play some 80+ hour monstrosity (AC Odyssey) or stopped playing something because the gameplay in that particular entry is shite (FIFA20), but I don't have so little self control that as soon as a good game adds microtransactions I ban myself from playing it.
Maybe loot boxes and microtransactions ruin the gameplay for some titles but for the most part, the titles people make the most noise about, time and time again, are rarely affected in a way that is so significant that the game suddenly becomes unenjoyable if you don't engage with them. Some idiots are so easily worked into a fervour by garbage YouTube "personalities" whose whole bit is to get "good and mad" about the latest BIG PUBLISHER CONTROVERSY that any genuine discussion around how fun a huge release is to play is drowned out by toxic discourse and dogpiling.
The "fight back" and "take a stand" rhetoric is dumb and embarrassing. Don't play it if you don't like it. Who gives a strawberry float.
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Pretty much this...to a point.
I've been thoroughly enjoying Battlefront 2 these past few weeks after about a year and eight(ish) months. But even back in 2017, while the controversy was at its peak, I didn't allow it to strip any of my enjoyment away nor did it blind me to the merits of DICE's work - unlike those single-minded dogpilers who end up blinding themselves for no other reason than to be enraged
However, I do feel it's important to highlight - not necessarily have a tantrum, but rather criticise - how companies conduct their business with a level head. I hate when youtubers/streamers try to make others feel bad for prioritising themselves over some strawberry floating crusade.