At this point I think it's safe to assume all large companies are evil and so piracy of any software/media/etc created by a large company is the moral thing to do.

I swear even after staring at it for 30s that said "ESL FACESIT GROUP".

Rockstar should be added to this list.

I feel like maybe I need to read more about the whole "stop killing games" thing. It's awesome and fine if they expect at some point the game will be able to be played through a free multiplayer tool that enables someone to host and pay for private games.

It's quite another if they think companies should have to shell money out of pocket indefinitely to run infrastructure for multiplayer games after x years of release and/or once player base passes a certain threshold number.

I'm admitting my ignorance here but I do think it's fair to at least question both sides some

I read this as stop PLAYING games and was like "no, fuck you."

Why ESL is bad ? They don't make any games. They just do esports that promote gaming.

Why Sega is bad ? What did Bandai Namco ?

Only one Chinese company but no explicitly Tencent who owns Supercell and have 1/3 Epic Games, 1/3 Ubisoft it is just it's brand name Level Infinite that means nothing.

No Scopely who owns Monopoly Go that alone makes $200M per month on gambling.

Any mobile gambling companies with micro transactions that are in fact casinos should be there instead of companies that just make AAA flops.

I agree with the thrust of this, but I have no faith in the resolve of the average consumer to make a difference.

I love steam, but it needs to be in this image.

It is not self-explanatory. You needed to explain it. On its face, it sounds like it's saying to just pirate. I can get behind the message, but these three words aren't it. I know that coming up with effective, catchy slogans is hard, but this one's not going to do well.

Most of those are ones i already hate.

My childhood friend and a common acquaintance work at Supercell. I once asked them what they think about the moral issue of putting paid loot boxes in games for children.

They had never heard of such a controversy and didn't understand why a fun and profitable feature would be somehow wrong.

Should I feel bad for assuming any company's name that ends in "group" probably do some heinous shit

I've been doing this for about 15 years and it hasn't made a difference. Let's not kid ourselves that it's going to change anything except keeping ourselves from getting burned

joke on you im playing retro games!!!!

EDIT: but no seriously playing retro games is a great alternative then playing what's new

Buy from GoG

This is pretty much every company that publishes games. So we just don’t buy / play games ? We want real change we need to push for more physical releases with game on disc. On top of that we need to push for more single player experiences. This way no matter the licenses agreement I can still boot the games

Going back as far as the mid 90s I recall seeing verbiage in the software agreement that I didn’t own the software. And they had the right to refuse my access without notice But because the software is on the disc I can still boot it to this day

I don’t expect companies to hold servers for the rest of time so I can redownload my game. What I ask for is a physical copy.

Kinda telling that Valve aren't on here. They also only sell a license to play a game, not the game.

We were barely 1.3 million that bothered to sign a petition, and you want to convince a meaningful amount of people to give up games from 95% of publishers? Good luck lol.

I figure this battle is lost so I started hoarding and archiving everything i come across that works/can work offline