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  • still expect to do to a rug pull once people’s attention are elsewhere. Oh look, Microsoft is doing a thing now.

    Corporations being corporations and trying to rip off the customer to make the stockholder happy is a constant thing (unfortunately). “Viva Capitalism!”, and all that.

    But ‘We the People Customers’ ultimately have the control, we control the purse strings. They need the money in our wallets, and we can decide to give them that money or not, based on how they treat us, as customers. They will try to psyop convince you otherwise of that fact, but that fact remains, and holds true.

    Its an endless battle/war, but its a good one to fight for. Then they try something the next time, we push back against it. Again.

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  • I’m saying there’s not really anything more I can do when it comes to EA.

    You are already doing your part. Thank you, citizen.

    But, you can also vocalize to others, especially the younger generation, that things like ads in games can be pushed back against successfully, as it has in the past. That they don’t have to put up with crap, or think they can’t push back against the monolithic corporation, because its been done before, successfully.

    Hell, EA was one of those companies that tried ads in games before, and had to retreat from the pushback from customers.

    The problem is that many people don’t have a similar spine for actual principles like this, and the majority of people simply don’t even care.

    I always thought that they cared, especially if they are being taken advantaged of, but that it doesn’t rise to a high enough threshold to actually do something about it (they triage it lower on their problem list), and that they feel that they are alone in doing it, so why bother.

    What past events have shown though is that if we all do it together, even in a non-coordinated sort of way (organically), then the burden is not that hard individually, and the effort/pushback works well/enough.

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