nicemarmut
Neo Member
I find it pretty frustrating that many of the people posting here can be so passionate about buying or not buying a fifteen dollar game. If you aim to do either of those things to affect the status of anyone's civil rights, I can pretty much guarantee that marching in a protest or writing your congressman or discussing your beliefs with people that will actually listen to them (i.e. people who interact with you outside of an internet forum) will have more affect than buying or not buying(?) even TWO copies of the game.
I mean, I get "voting with your dollar" as far as affecting matters within the video game industry, such as what sort of games are made, a game being entertainment that is usually made by a number of people; but tying your purchase to the outside popularity or effectiveness of the beliefs of one person involved in the production of a game (even if that person is a part of more powerful organizations) is really irritating. This sort of reminds me of some of my friends who disapprove of my buying used CDs because none of my money (instead of very little of my money?) goes to the artist, that sort of sycophantic attitude, but the converse. If you want to support or discourage the beliefs of the artist, especially beliefs whose methods do not so much as budge at any influence of the video games industry, you should do so by discussing THOSE BELIEFS DIRECTLY or affecting real and direct change, not discussing whether or not you are going to buy this game or the affect that your fifteen dollars will have once it is divided up into fractions of cents.
I mean, I get "voting with your dollar" as far as affecting matters within the video game industry, such as what sort of games are made, a game being entertainment that is usually made by a number of people; but tying your purchase to the outside popularity or effectiveness of the beliefs of one person involved in the production of a game (even if that person is a part of more powerful organizations) is really irritating. This sort of reminds me of some of my friends who disapprove of my buying used CDs because none of my money (instead of very little of my money?) goes to the artist, that sort of sycophantic attitude, but the converse. If you want to support or discourage the beliefs of the artist, especially beliefs whose methods do not so much as budge at any influence of the video games industry, you should do so by discussing THOSE BELIEFS DIRECTLY or affecting real and direct change, not discussing whether or not you are going to buy this game or the affect that your fifteen dollars will have once it is divided up into fractions of cents.