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Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions
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I dont buy these games, nor do I verbally defend such practices in them. I understand your point, but the real issue is them existing, not the form in which they exist in this case.
The whole "first world problem" is always hilarious when brought up. You can discuss or argue over anything you want, everyone experiences life differently. Just because there's people starving, that doesnt mean you cant talk about capitalist issues either. Its such a shitty dismissal everytime.
You're free to call it what you wish. Complaining about voluntary purchases in a video game you also don't need to buy is a vapid pursuit only engaged in by those with an excess of time and money and a lack of real world problems. If you want to waste your time debating the ethics of such a system existing then be my guest but don't pretend you're engaging in some lofty moral exercise. You're just bored and looking for something to occupy your time so you chose to bitch about something inconsequential on the internet.
Yet here you are doing the same thing. Pot calling the kettle black.
Making up something dumb to complain about is not the same as telling you to shut up about said dumb thing but I know you don't really believe that anyway. You're just trying to get a smug jab in and that's the best you can come up with.
You are complaining about people complaining, talking down on people to get a feeling of superiority. If you dont like a conversation just move on with your life. Or is it that you have nothing better to do, so you choose to bitch about something inconsequential on the internet?
Upvoting your own comments too :)
I wont engage any further with this, its just gonna go in circles. Have a good one.
I don't have anything better to do. I happily acknowledge that. My life is going pretty great all things considered, but then I'm not the one pretending to be an oppressed victim fighting a corrupt system via complaints about stuff I don't need to buy. That's what you're doing.
Also, Lemmy defaults to upvoting posts you make. That's something you should probably know before you criticize people for not going out of their way to downvote themselves. It makes you look kind of dumb to say stuff like that since you could have figured that out for yourself if you thought about it for more than two seconds, which now that I think about it is a pretty good summary of the rest of the things that you've said in this conversation.