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

I literally don’t buy anything I can get for free.

YARRRR

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If you only consider monetary cost, you can get anything free.

If you consider risk, opportunity, and effort, nothing is free.

For your statement to be literally true, you must either buy literally everything or literally nothing depending on your perspective.

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Based and petrol siphon pilled

Or A really rich friend that wants to play games with you

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Sugar daddies fall under “effort”…at least if you want them to keep paying for your games.

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