The real action is offline. Maybe it’s time to go there.
A lot of people, myself included, REALLY need to pay attention to that line. I think there is real value in online discourse, honestly, but it should come after helping people in a visible and noticeable way. People notice who offers a helping hand and who has nothing to say but scolding remarks, and that cuts both left and right.
They're not gonna stop until well past the point where it stops making sense. That's the nature of this, the higher ups are always slow to react, but determined to chase what they perceive as a trend. Throw money at things in the hope of striking rich like fortnite, (honestly it's little better than gambling) they have no understanding, or will to understand, the reasons why some games take off and others fail. So they mindlessly push thinking that's it purely a matter of luck or timing.
so nobody feels ‘trapped’ in an unfun game.
I think this is an understated problem. It's simply awful to be in a slowly losing multiplayer game that you feel you have no control over, and when you also simultaneously feel that you aren't playing with people you care about. It's pretty easy to start not caring about monitoring your behavior. After all, who cares if everyone in this lobby thinks you're annoying or awful to deal with, you will never see them again, and if you do they won't recognize you, so act out your frustration without fear of real consequences. I also don't think bans for "bad behavior" actually address the reason people behave this way, it just encourages them to hide it in more subtle ways that automated scripts can't detect, or that give them some plausible deniability.
This is me on the weekends for sure. I feel like I'm wasting time even after I've cleaned my room, washed the dishes, done the laundry etc etc. Journaling, and keeping a to do list helps a bit, just lets my brain remember 'oh yeah I've done all the important stuff'.
Time to find out if they've learned the right lessons. I won't be holding my breath.
This isn't going to stop, just have to hope enough consumers have the wherewithal to say no to this sort of thing.
I can't tell you why, I mean I REALLY can't, but I'm kinda lookin' forward to this.
I hope we can do a little more at some point, but at least it's something. I hope it doesn't get treated as "enough".
Yeah that one hits a little close to home for sure.
I have waited so long for this.
Extremely gross that they're putting this much effort into protecting only the rich, But completely unsurprising. I don't understand why SO MANY Americans are just completely accepting of this obvious favoritism.