In this sense, Chet is right, the ‘democracy’ of consumers has prevailed, and the people have spoken. They said ‘digital.’ I myself have been a PC gamer for over a decade now and I can’t remember the last time I bought physical media.
“You as the consumer have forced the large corporations hand, and you’ve told them ‘Stop with retail.’”
But then Chet shows his entire rancid asshole by actively ignoring the power dynamics between corporation and customer. The corporation always has the upper hand because the customer CAN ONLY buy what the corporation is OFFERING to sell. The corporation is always, at all times, presenting the customer with a false choice. A customer who has shitty internet and has to purchase all physical media, they may be in the democratic minority but that doesn’t mean we feed them to the wolves. But an ex-Valve writer wouldn’t know shit about that, they haven’t shipped a physical game since Portal 2. What choice did you give consumers for Counterstrike, 2023? Half Life Alyx, 2020? Dota, 2013?
Once you, apparently, regretted your decision to invest almost entirely in digital, you didn’t start buying Crimson Desert discs while you could, nor did you abstain from making digital purchases altogether. Now it’s too late, says Faliszek.
But there are way more customers than there are corporations. What you’re saying it true only if the corporation is selling something no customers wants to buy. The existence of gaming whales more or less proves that is not the case. 90% of the customers can choose not to buy but as long as that last 10% covers the rest of 90% it doesn’t matter that the majority of the customers refuse to buy what is being sold.
On the other hand, the corpos don’t have the upper hand, they have to make a product we’re willing to buy. We always have the right not to buy it and should use it more often. If any brand makes a bad product or sells it with too high price, we should fully use our right not to buy it. Not accept it, begrudgingly, and buy it.
I have done it multiple times over and no corpo hit squad has shown up to force me to buy anything. Even much more easier for digital goods as we can always sail the high seas.
While yeah it hasn’t have had any effect on the overall market, at least i have a clear conscious and refuse to become a victim of corporations.
More people should use this right, we are not helpless victims of corporations.
“We constantly say voting with your wallet will make it so businesses will only create what you’re willing to buy. … Gaming is in the state it’s in currently because the vast majority of gamers are okay with it? Have the wallets already voted?”
In this sense, Chet is right, the ‘democracy’ of consumers has prevailed, and the people have spoken. They said ‘digital.’ I myself have been a PC gamer for over a decade now and I can’t remember the last time I bought physical media.
But then Chet shows his entire rancid asshole by actively ignoring the power dynamics between corporation and customer. The corporation always has the upper hand because the customer CAN ONLY buy what the corporation is OFFERING to sell. The corporation is always, at all times, presenting the customer with a false choice. A customer who has shitty internet and has to purchase all physical media, they may be in the democratic minority but that doesn’t mean we feed them to the wolves. But an ex-Valve writer wouldn’t know shit about that, they haven’t shipped a physical game since Portal 2. What choice did you give consumers for Counterstrike, 2023? Half Life Alyx, 2020? Dota, 2013?
Suck my dick, clown.
Absolutely not correct, because the opposite is also true. The corporation can only sell what the consumer is offering to buy.
But there are way more customers than there are corporations. What you’re saying it true only if the corporation is selling something no customers wants to buy. The existence of gaming whales more or less proves that is not the case. 90% of the customers can choose not to buy but as long as that last 10% covers the rest of 90% it doesn’t matter that the majority of the customers refuse to buy what is being sold.
Turns out the consumers will buy literal shit if it’s branded with a rockstar logo.
Consumerism being a democratic process is probably the most effective propaganda capitalists have fabricated.
On the other hand, the corpos don’t have the upper hand, they have to make a product we’re willing to buy. We always have the right not to buy it and should use it more often. If any brand makes a bad product or sells it with too high price, we should fully use our right not to buy it. Not accept it, begrudgingly, and buy it.
I have done it multiple times over and no corpo hit squad has shown up to force me to buy anything. Even much more easier for digital goods as we can always sail the high seas.
While yeah it hasn’t have had any effect on the overall market, at least i have a clear conscious and refuse to become a victim of corporations.
More people should use this right, we are not helpless victims of corporations.