Adding to that, sometimes those lines are things you know of and would like to not cross, but are impossible to avoid.
Adding to that, sometimes those lines are things you know of and would like to not cross, but are impossible to avoid.
I have excellent news: you can also not buy games from those companies too.
The russian people still deserve to earn a wage, to pay for their necessities
While I can’t say that Saber for sure works this way, but every studio I know of pays a salary, and the sales of the game don’t factor in (with the exception of bonuses and maybe shady practices around contracted QA). The article even states they are busy working on their next game, so those people are currently being paid.
I don’t believe anyone is calling out the employees in this situation. I think the difference is agency. I can choose whether or not to spend money on the game, thereby choosing whether or not to send money to the Russian government. A Russian employee does not have that choice, much like people in the US don’t have a choice to pay taxes that fund a genocide. People buying leisure items do have that choice, though.
This is not about the politics of the company or whether or not the people support the government. Influence is not the point. This is about material support to the Russian government. Money spent on the game goes to the Russian government in the form of taxes. This blurb says it in plain text:
To put it crudely, an average gamer, who buys Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 for $59.99, helps the company to fund the Russian army with almost $12
I don’t know if I would call it horror, but Dredge is fantastic with creeping dread
We have that he was banned from twitch. When somebody bringing in that much money for Twitch, you know what they did was bad. Keep defending a shitass though. I’m sure that’ll go great for you
Unknown reason that have not been stated. I was 100% speculating, but that does not make it not super gross and creepy.
He went to either Rumble or Kick. Not sure which, but both are pretty heavy into low moderation.
Edit: Never mind, he is on YouTube but without monetization
He was DMing a minor on twitch and there were sexual messages involved. From what I understand Twitch’s law enforcement consultant did not refer it to law enforcement for unknown reasons and they just banned him instead. Probably just creep behavior and nothing technically illegal. Still fucked up, but nothing that would get him arrested. He did not end up meeting with the victim AFAIK.
Not sure if I am reading this wrong, but I think it is just the one that did the cheating and game owner that get banned
If a family member gets banned for cheating while playing your copy of a game, you (the game owner) will also be banned in that game. Other family members are not impacted.
Emphasis mine
You can choose your IRL family too, just takes a little more work to drop the shitty people.
Huh, I never thought of it as obscure. I wonder if it is just the fact that I have weird friends so was exposed to their tastes.
I thought it was very well loved?
Which they did. There is an update at the end of the article. Just a thoughtless move by that author
…your deadly traps?
Why is Fortnite not a real game? It’s fine to not like things, and good to criticize Epic for their terrible practices in and out of Fortnite, but saying it isn’t a real game smells gatekeepy to me.
What constitutes a real game?
The difference for me is that while I do try to avoid those things, it is not possible a lot of times. I can avoid buying a game 100% of the time. They are essentially a luxury item.