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[–] li10@feddit.uk 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A lot of “reasonable” points about how they’ll be moderating, but with a clear undertone of their true objective being to silence criticism imo.

Maybe just don’t do stuff that causes people to heavily criticise and boycott your game?

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Silencing critique is authoritarian bullshit. BUT, tw “fans” also say some heinous shit to CA’s employees all the time that is over the line.

Calling for boycotts due to decline in product quality isn’t unreasonable, especially after price hikes, but the players need to realize also that the business needs to raise prices every few decades to account for increased costs (wages, benefits, rent, etc). Both sides need to meet in the middle but gamers are notoriously unreasonable as a group