mcc*Company makes my life worse through their product*
I will boycott this product
*Company continues making my life worse, now through externalities*
How do I boycott an externality
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@lunemercove (i also think the industry is heavily oversaturated/leveraged, but i'd definitely prefer that when it adjusts it ends up favoring small producers over the big ones, which.. seems unlikely :\ )
@lunemercove yeah, i think the biggest concern is just wanting to support devs, especially smaller ones that have simply priced their games at a reasonable cost given the labor involved, but it's not like that's most of what ppl i know play anyway, at least not as actively as stuff in the aaa sphere
@lunemercove honestly i think almost everyone in the western empire is bad at budgeting-- our entire society is designed to actively discourage good habits
@lunemercove plus, for the cost of the average new game console, it's like you said-- i can set up a machine to emulate more old stuff than i could possibly play in my lifetime already
@lunemercove the worst part is the fomo of all your friends playing something new, but once i realized how extremely heavy game companies were using that as a sales tactic it became both easier to resist a little gross, tbh
@lunemercove yeah, it's not like i don't LIKE the odd big budget game, but the good ones i'll still want in a few years, and the ones that won't (aka games with a heavy live service or multiplayer requirement) i probably won't get to before its too late anyway
(ok there are exceptions for like, small underpriced indie games, and sometimes friends get me gifts of stuff like elden ring-- but for the most part, that was a treadmill i couldn't be more glad to get off of)
it's really hard to explain to new friends who find out i play video games that i'm also excited about new games, but i had to stop myself from buying anything until it had been out at least a year due to both budget reasons and because i'm already fully saturated with good games i want to play