You've now taken the stance that these other companies did scummy things so it's okay for Microsoft to do scummy anti consumer things. This will also not find purchase.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude, my personal stance is irrelevant here.

I'm not saying that that's my stance. I'm saying Microsoft is one of the largest companies in the world. You're not going to change their mind by saying "I don't like it".

All I'm saying is "this is how businesses work". If we don't like it, we need to protest, vote with our wallets.

If you must know, my personal stance is the same as everyone else's: it sucks that they're forcing us to pay for first party/verified third party hardware which usually comes with a price rise.

But I thought I'd inform people what Microsoft's position is in all this. They're not going to stop taking massive losses just because some people on Lemmy said "that's not nice". Reality is that every company wants to make a profit and retain a positive brand image, especially now that Microsoft spent 69 billion dollars on Activision -Blizzard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes yes we all know that big companies are going to do bad things, you aren't revealing new information here. And we know that leaving a comment on lemmy isn't going to change anything, this is not new information.

We don't really like this whole "big companies do bad things and we should expect that and not say anything about it" thing. should we just never talk about anything because big companies are big, so do what they want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes yes we all know that big companies are going to do bad things, you aren't revealing new information here.

You're finding it extremely hard to understand the concepts of this conversation and still have the gall to be sarcastic and patronising. It's surprising when you're clearly misinformed.

We don't really like this whole "big companies do bad things and we should expect that and not say anything about it" thing. should we just never talk about anything because big companies are big, so do what they want.

No one's said you can't talk about it? How are you so confused? I'll break it down for you since you're obviously struggling:

Companies sell products. Companies like Sony have a tighter control on their third party hardware. Companies like Microsoft are much more lenient, but it causes cheap knockoffs to flood the market and reduce their brand value and first-party profits. Microsoft will now implement a check to control third party hardware. People on Lemmy get upset. It's hypocrisy.

You're either upset with the whole system or none of it. Getting upset the moment Microsoft does it makes no sense. At no point is anyone saying that you can't talk about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

do you really think people are just upset now? and aren't upset when other companies do bad things?