• P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    We’ve tried to educate, but the general public is just so fucking stupid and won’t learn any lessons at all. How many pre-orders does it take before they realize it’s a scam? Fuck, there are still idiots that buy the latest FIFA game at full price every single year.

    It’s not even victim blaming when they repeatedly don’t learn they are being shafted over and over again.

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      19 minutes ago

      General public is tired, mfs working minimum wage and want some joy out of their paycheck, they want to play the lastest sports game with their friends, doesn’t appeal to me but ik plenty of power users who still buy those games and play them too actually, honestly its not even expensive if you work and actually play those games all year every year?

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        17 minutes ago

        They charge what they want because the general public still likes it and cares enough to support it every year, they still get more than enough value out of it, blame the lack of comeptitors and ppl being hung up on needing licensing

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      1 hour ago

      I agree but it’s not even a point of education (for the most part) imo. It’s that a large amount of people are easily manipulated and are not properly equipped to fight it off.

      Societal peer pressure carries a lot of this stuff very far. If two friends but the latest game, a third will likely do so as well; and the sample size is rarely limited to three.