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EA is on my boycott list since Origin & ME3. ¯ (ツ)_/¯

How many of those have in-game ads though?

There's a history of pushing back against adding ads into games, that's different than boycotting the company overall. One can be successful, when another is not.

And having said that, one could even argue that their desperation to make money by putting ads into games (again) is not just about keeping the shareholders happy, but also because of people having boycotted them over the years, depriving them of additional income. You may be making more of a stand than you realize.

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the recent Helldivers2 shitstorm proved that things can change.

And there's a history of successfully pushing back against this change as well!

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If they are fullscreen ads that disrupt, then yeah pushback is expected. But they wont do this, they will slip them in slowly and people wont generally care.

Pushback from gamers only usually happens when its something like losing the ability to play the game - see recent helldivers controversy.

There should have been a pushback on microtransactions from the start, but people just said “well you dont have to buy them” and here we are.

That's not true though. They've tried adding ads in games for decades now, and they've always been pushed back successfully.

Just, hold. Stay the course. This new generation can do the same thing that previous gens have already proven can be done.

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Pretty sure the Hell Divers 2 backlash was the only time I’ve ever seen gamers win over a corporation.

There's been others, over the decades. This isn't the first time they tried putting ads into games. All the other times were pushed back successfully.

Blizzard fans have made me absolutely cynical about gamer boycotts.

True-ish, but people really did step up more in more recent days, and voted with their wallets. The pop dropped was bad enough and for long enough that the company got sold off to Microsoft to recover, and Bobby is gone.

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Fellow gamers, now is the time to push back on this crap. If you don't do it now, you'll live with this forever. They tried doing this in past generations as well, and failed.

Spread the word, tell others. Be vocal! Advocate for this not happening.

And if someone tells you that this isn't preventable, tell them not to be cynical. Remind them of the other positive changes we were able to have happen recently in gaming, and that in the past when they tried this, the pushback was successful in keeping the gaming companies from doing so.

And remember, some of those you would try to convince are probably astroturfers/bots.

(https://lemmy.world/comment/9975178) (https://lemmy.world/comment/9975178)

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I hope gamers will unite. Though it seems far more likely that kids will just buy it because “wooooo hype. Who cares about ads, I already watch a bazillion a day when doomscrolling Instagram”.

Something tells me they will, at least it's on the latest generation to step up.

Previous generations of always pushed back against this, and won.

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They tried it way before 2020 too, they talked to the agency I worked for at the time. Same result

They tried it before 2020 as well.

They keep trying this every generation, hoping the latest generation will be dumb enough to accept it.

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It's not our responsibility to help their shareholders make money.

We are purchasing a product from them, or a service, and we expect it to work, and not market us when we are using it.

If the cost of manufacturer is not being covered in the sales price to the customer, then they need the raise prices, or go out of business.

Or tell their shareholders to go pound sand.

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Fellow gamers, now is the time to push back on this crap. If you don't do it now, you'll live with this forever. They tried doing this in past generations as well, and failed.

Spread the word, tell others. Be vocal! Advocate for this not happening.

And if someone tells you that this isn't preventable, tell them not to be cynical. Remind them of the other positive changes we were able to have happen recently in gaming, and that in the past when they tried this, the pushback was successful in keeping the gaming companies from doing so.

And remember, some of those you would try to convince are probably astroturfers/bots.

(https://lemmy.world/comment/9975178) (https://lemmy.world/comment/9977246)

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The masses will buy any game thats marketed to them enough. It’s how we got into this mess in the first place.

Well that's true to some extent, but there has been past attempts at this, and they have been pushed back successfully, even with those 'masses' being there in previous generations.

Also recent victories show that even in today's environment, positive change can be effected.

Try not to be cynical. If we lose, we lose, but at least we can look at ourselves in the mirror the next day.

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The review bombings have helped before. Probably everyone has an ea game in their library. Lets give it a go.

Or just vote with your wallet.

Or both.

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Fellow gamers, now is the time to push back on this crap. If you don't do it now, you'll live with this forever. They tried doing this in past generations as well, and failed.

Spread the word, tell others. Be vocal! Advocate for this not happening.

And if someone tells you that this isn't preventable, tell them not to be cynical. Remind them of the other positive changes we were able to have happen recently in gaming, and that in the past when they tried this, the pushback was successful in keeping the gaming companies from doing so.

And remember, some of those you would try to convince are probably astroturfers/bots.

(https://lemmy.world/comment/9976907) (https://lemmy.world/comment/9977246)

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That's innovative, have to give her that.

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From the article...

The AI priest also told one user that it was okay to baptize a baby in Gatorade.

Okay, this one made me laugh, in an Idiocracy movie sort of way.

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you are under no obligation to follow the rules for a licence you did not agree to.

Agree to disagree, and moving on.

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I’m sorry if I made you feel that way.

I appreciate that, thank you for saying that. And no, it wasn't you, its just been a 'busy' week for me here on Lemmy is all.

And TY for the education on join-lemmy.org.

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As an individual, for comments of two sentences each, this is not an option.

My content is usually more than a sentence or two.

Also, it puts a stake in the ground for any future enforcement done by others than myself if laws change.

Its a low-hanging-fruit way of protecting my content. If it works, great, and if it doesn't, then I'll vote for someone else for Congress the next time.

I've wasted more time replying on this single conversation/post than I have copy/pasting the link in all of my comments so far.

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I feel like you’re missing the point. Maybe I wasn’t clear. Yes, Lemmy World does use it, however it’s a feature of Lemmy itself, not just of Lemmy World. Lemmy World is just one instance of Lemmy and they all use the same markup.

My point is calling it the Lemmy.World markup is inaccurate and potentially misleading. Lemmy is more than just Lemmy.World.

I understand, but also, I was speaking directly to the link that exists in the Lemmy.World's web-based editor, I have no access to any other web-based or otherwise editors from other servers.

If the Lemmy.World web-based editor is maintained by the Lemmy devs themselves, then it is a Lemmy editor, agreed.

I'm not aware either way though if it is/not, and I've been arguing with people that take any slight ambiguity from me as ammo to attack me with, so I was being very specific, based on my own personal use-case and the specific server URL of the link I was speaking of.

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The Tv stations play the intermission? I’d think they would just cut that and jam more commercials in there.

It was cable TV (vs streaming service), one of the networks that don't play commercials during the movie.

TCM maybe, can't remember which.

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