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[–] ceiphas@lemmy.world 99 points 6 months ago (29 children)

and because of an attitude like this, my family wil never buy anything from nintendo again.

[–] tahoe@lemmy.world 43 points 6 months ago (23 children)

Just buy used. You get all the goodies without supporting their shitty practices, while not even having to deal with the ethics of piracy. It’s all win.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Personally, I think I'd rather not even give them the word of mouth of having played their game. There's so much out there to play, and plenty of it doesn't come from a company doing lousy stuff like this, even if it's second hand.

[–] KRAW@linux.community 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

plenty of it doesn’t come from a company doing lousy stuff like this

So you only play indie games? Because that's basically the only way you avoid "companies doing lousy stuff."

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If there's any time playing only indie games is viable it's now. We've had high quality indie releases outpacing how fast you can play them for a few years now.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Especially on PC. Also, people forget that Indie doesn't necessarily mean "made by a small team/low budget". It just means it was produced by a studio that isn't at the behest of some massive corperation/faceless number crunching shareholders. CD Projekt Red is an independant studio, as is Valve.

Also, some games are developed independently by small studios, but then marketed and published by a larger company. Devolver is an example of a publishing house with an excellent track record of just letting the indie dev teams they work with do whatever they want.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

CD Projekt is publicly traded.

[–] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

Yup. I tend to like Annapurna published games.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Steam Deck and other Linux handhelds make it super easy to play indies.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

So you only play indie games?

Pretty much.

More specifically, I only play new games that I can verify the author is receiving a fair wage. That tends to be pretty indie.

In the rare case that I'm somehow caught up on my indie game library, I also play open source games and AAA title abandonware.

Moving from "patient gamer" to "gamer with a strong stance against Nintendo's and EA's bullshit" honestly wasn't a huge deal. And it continues to be easy on my wallet.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

More and more lately, but not exclusively. I have an increasingly long list of things that are deal-breakers for me, and I haven't run out of stuff to play.

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