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Or just don’t buy it. 🤷♂️
Not that difficult to say no to an abusive company.
lol. Mister why bother with anything over here.
You can make decisions on what you support. You don’t have to be perfect and boycott literally every company to make a difference.
People don’t have control over every choice but enough to matter. Especially in regards to entertainment.
Yes literally every screen, console and movie player is built on abuse, so let’s not do anything about the companies that do openly abuse their employees and customers. It’s all bad anyways so might as well do nothing with your thumb up your ass.
Nestle does horrible things and literally has killed children but let’s do nothing and buy their products anyways. Not like there are multiple nestle boycott groups all over the internet spreading awareness. No they are just wasting their time.
You can stand up against abuse from one company while being unable to do much about another.
Doing nothing gets you nowhere. I’m not saying choosing to support a company or not is the end all be all but it is the damn minimum you can do. Unions and laws against monopolies is what we need.
I can understand this comment for something like an abusive mineral miner in Africa selling electronics parts, or a food corporation that makes shared ingredients. Video games, though, are much more of a finished product, and easy to find competition for.
I was disappointed to hear allegations of toxic work environments in Moon Studios, the people who made indie darling Ori and the Blind Forest. So while abusive employers are certainly an important issue, it doesn't appear to be one that's specific to large companies. Furthermore, it was never going to get solved under the supervision of Bobby Kotick - a man who was never going to leave unless something like the Microsoft deal happened.
There's lots of horrible companies in the world, and I salute anyone's efforts to boycott the ones doing horrible shit. Part of the reason I'm ambivalent about the merger is, I don't even buy (or care about the success of) Activision games. But I don't see that as a topic directly relevant to corporate merging/growth. Two publishers merge, that hasn't added to the amount of employee abuse going on in each of their studios.