Could be me being paranoid fuck ,who trust noone and assumes everyones is a prick by default , I think If went the bolded way globally i would probably never really buy anything and go live as a forest person as i am crazy overthinker.
( For example after all the indipocalypse whining i kinda stopped buying games completely for a while as i didnt want to support the whiningg - took me few days AFK and less time spent on twatter , i just get what i find cool )
And overall i kinda reached the point where i value product by the product itself and not by other factors related to the product ... my life is sooo "roses and butterfiles" as it is right now... that i just dont want to waste my life away by thinking and researching what evil is hidden behind products i consume.
These days i just go by with the lets do what you like , consume what you enjoy and dont trust anyone.
PS: Humanity doesnt deserve to live anyway so let the world burn the meantime
I mean that's fine, that's what I the majority of people do - but also, don't let that lead you into defending these companies when people call them out. I personally "know too much" I guess, and I refuse to have fun or luxury at the cost of other people's well being. In my own life I am constantly suffering due to idiotic, anti-scientific "feelings" about how office work should be done, and it's 100% avoidable suffering (in fact, it would be better for the entire company and our work and our customers if they properly addressed this shit) but instead they just say "no, that doesn't sound right" and carry on doing things the way they've been done, arbitrarily and incorrectly, for decades. In my case, nobody is actually benefiting - it's purely a net loss, all around, and people are too unconcerned about what "could be" to notice. There's countless examples of this across the world, in all fields.
I am not OK with employees being treated as disposable, I'm not OK with people being abused, I'm not OK with the multiple avenues of functionally slave labor that have been reintroduced (if it ever truly was gone) via these big corporations and social stigmas around changing the status quo. That is my own personal stance, and I won't judge someone for not getting invested or learning about what goes on behind every single purchase - but that also means they should not be in a place to defend those things either. It's fine if someone really fucking loves Nike shoes, and doesn't know about what goes in to getting those shoes to the store - but they also have no knowledge to defend Nike's practices, either. You can say "it's a good shoe" and condemn the company, those are not contrary facts.
This has gotten pretty broad as far as conversations go. To relate it back to games, I personally buy very few big company games, but I do buy them. I have drawn the line with Epic (they are actively hurting the entire platform, so it's an easy line to see) and I buy mostly indie games but I'm sure some of the people involved in some of them have skeletons aplenty. I rail against loot boxes now but I did previously spend money on some in various places. No company is perfect, no person can ever meet the ideals of another truly, but as more and more big money has poured into gaming and taken over a lot of the market, it is important for consumers to remind them that at the end of the day, we still matter, and people still matter, more than raw profits. A scarce few companies have acknowledged that so far, but maybe more will some day.
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