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Man, you're missing out. EA Originals published a bunch of stuff worth playing that people mostly ignored. If you like HazeLight stuff, Unraveled 2 was a cute 2D platformer take on coop puzzling. Zau is a decent metroidvania, although not the best of last year. Lost in Random was so underrated.
And the main internal studios make cool stuff, too. Squadrons is great if you like Tie Fighter, the Dead Space remake is up there with Silent Hill 2 and Resident Evil 2, the Jedi games are decent soulslikes... They aren't particularly adventurous outside their sports and shooter franchises, but I feel in general they also don't ship too much outright bad stuff, looking at it with some neutrality.
Yeah, there's absolutely no reason people hate EA. They are an insane force for good in this world and there's reason to ever look past the shiny veneer. After all, everything shiny must be good. I mean, why vote with your wallet when you could just open the wallet and give money to whatever you like without any fore or afterthought. Money doesn't give corporations any power, that's just an illusion. Keep consuming and all will be fine.
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I'll say this: there is absolutely no reason to "hate" a videogame company.
Like, Amazon and Meta, maybe? But certainly not for the videogame parts.
But also, voting with your wallet is late capitalist brain rot. You don't vote with your wallet, you vote with your votes. Voting with your wallet just means people with a bigger wallet get a bigger say and people who need things from companies breaking the rules appear to be supporting them when they don't. It's extremely ironic to be given a dressing down about the ills of consumption while 100% buying into US-style anarchocapitalist "money is speech" bullshit.
If something is genuinely pernicious, get it banned through political action.
You can very much vote with both.
No you can't.
I mean, maybe you can. You can have enough disposable income to give yourself a bit of self-congratulatory, masturbatory dopamine by buying organic toast and telling yourself you're saving the planet or something. I don't care how you get off.
But if you're taking political action you can either start an organized boycott (and then you better do more than just not buy things the Internet told you are evil) or you're not taking political action with your money.
I keep trying to explain this to people. Boycotts aren't grassroots, spontaneous consumer flows. They are consumer-side strikes. They need organization and enforcement. If you're substituting the free market for democracy you end up with neither.
Get over yourself lmao.
Games aren't food and you don't have to buy them.
Oh, absolutely.
But that also means we're not talking about "voting with your wallet", then. You're talking about free market purchases of entertainment as a commodity and then I don't give a crap what you do and there is zero reason to base your purchases on any sort of moral high horse. Just buy what you want to play and let the market do capitalism at you.