“one should never a corporation on principle”

First of all, this hardly qualifies as theft if you read the article. Secondly, corporations steal from and exploit consumers regularly, it's usually legally permissable but not morally permissable. Only corporate sympathizers would equate corporate and consumer theft.

If you are referring to the behavior referenced in the article, I absolutely agree, society has no place for misogyny. The person I replied to seems to be directed at toxic behavior in general. I agree that it’s a problem for the gaming community regardless and there is no real excuse for being an asshole, ever.

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As far as I know they pretty much have only refunded digital purchases of CP 2077 for being faulty ever. Since it’s the same digital product, if they gave a refund to someone on that ground then they would have to refund anyone who wanted to. This move nearly killed CDPR and I doubt House marque could take the hit.

If it’s consensual it’s fine though. Lots of people enjoy being roasted. It can be a lot of fun if it’s a private party and everyone knows and trusts each other. Twitch streamers should try to avoid personally insulting viewers if at all possible but the frustration with trolls in the chat is understandable.

The taken out of context defense is so weak. If he was literally quoting someone else and then going on to criticize it would be the one context that would redeem him.

Except a ton of people on kotaku are actually demanding this game has hard saves. I understand you don’t agree with these people, I certainly don’t, but its kind of gaslighting to say they don’t exist. There are 500+ comments on the original article about returnal saves. Ari didn’t make himself super clear in the…

Factually, it’s your problem in this case because the game doesn’t have a difficulty slider. The developers decided to have no difficulty sliders and no hard saves, probably against the wishes of sony execs mind you. I am not a returnal developer nor am I a fan of the company in general, I just enjoy the game and the…

I agree that certain viewpoints are not worthy of respect, so not calling you a hypocrite there. I think its very silly to personally attack anyone over their view on video game development (assuming it has purely to do with game mechanics and not gamergate shit.)

First of all, I wasn’t calling you mean- spirited for criticizing a video game, don’t be ridiculous. You are mean spirited for saying people who like challenges are living a poor life. I thank you for clarifying that you meant video games because initially you left it very broadly applicable to everything . Feel free…

Your first post ended with you saying it’s about ego, not art is a little disrespectful to those you disagree with, I think you are open-minded enough to see why.

Those are some mean-spirited comments. It’s funny you complain about getting bullied and then go on to attack the character of a broad group of gamers. Im not denying there are elitist hardcore gamer douchebags, we’ve seen one on this thread. However saying people who seek extra challenge in their free time are only…

Calling people names after being repeatedly asked to stop is harassment. You continued even after I told you my identity. This kind of behavior would get you fired from any humane workplace.  Obviously criticizing arguments doesn't have to include name calling, a point that I have repeatedly brought up and you have…

That wasn’t the point and I think you know it. The point is you are harassing oppressed identities. I only said minority because you did but it’s an offensive term for obvious reasons and I apologize to anyone who is reading this awful thread for using it. Im sure im not the only BIPOC that feels unsafe on kinja…

Jesus, I am a minority. You didn't even answer my question. If it was only a harassment campaign then it had nothing to do with video games by your own admission. Read your own words and stop being such a bully.

Why do you insist on personally insulting anyone who disagrees with you? I don't even think I disagree with you on anything crucial here but after you challenged my literacy I read your words extra carefully. You did say video games lead to a mass uprising of misogyny, not toxic video games, just video games. Saying…

Correlation does not equal causation. Soldiers of the US are more likely to pick up First Person Shooters but that doesn't necessarily mean playing cod will make you more likely to be a marine. Similarly Genshin Impact attracts a lot of creeps to play but it doesn't necessarily mean it's turning gamers into creeps.

What? Are you saying video games actually CAUSED these misogynistic assholes to be the way they are? That’s just as silly as saying a mass murderer played GTA and therefore blame rockstar.

I don’t see a single comment in the thread about advocating not getting vaccinated. Maybe they already did that or maybe you are equating wanting to open up too soon (wrong but understandable)with vaccine skepticism (dangerous).