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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

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[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 44 points 8 months ago (14 children)

For me its Ubisoft, EA and Nintendo.

[–] Varyag@lemm.ee 19 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Add ActiBlizz and Epic for me.

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (6 children)

What's wrong with epic?

Sent from my pile of free epic games.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

Not allowing reviews on the storefront seems minor, but is in fact an aggressively anti-consumer move given the standards of the industry. They've got other issues too, but that one gets ignored way too often for me to not mention

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