I mean, they made a poll. Every company was there. They chose EA as literally the worst. Multiple times.
Forget the specifics, I’m stating that the gaming community as a whole LOVES a dogpile. It loves having a nemesis they can dunk on based on one or two tropes they picked up along the way.
It’s not just EA, it cycles. Ubi is in the hotseat at the moment (for reasons I suspect most can’t even properly articulate, incidentally). Epic is up there, too, particularly around these parts, where the Valve worship runs strong. But it’s definitely a pattern, it’s definitely not particularly rational or mature, and it’s definitely disproportionate.
Epic is up there mainly because Tim Sweeney is a fuckhead. The Epic exclusives don’t help my opinion of them either. I suspect I wouldn’t like Gabe Newell’s politics if he shared them, but he’s far too clever to do that.
He shared them a long while ago. I believe he said he was a libertarian at the time, and others have said the same thing about him. Who knows where he falls in the middle of the current postapocalypse, but he runs a major tech company and the few reports that leaked out from his bubble make it seem like he’s… you know, a techbro. A techbro with enough mental acuity to do long term planning, but a techbro after all. Could have told you from the fact that Steam is pretty much a gig economy app at the end of the day.
But also, I don’t need a politics purity test to buy shit. That can’t be how we operate society. There needs to be a better way than that handled at the public level, even if libertarians like Gabe don’t like it. That goes for Newell, Sweeny, Andrew Wilson and all the other tech CEOs. I don’t align with any of them, I just need a strong enough set of incentives for the government to keep them in check.
There is no gray, only black and white. EA can’t be a bad company because Nestlé is the worst. You’re either good or you’re bad. That’s how the world works 🤷
That’s crazy that people think ea is the worst company ever when nestle exists.
It truly speaks to their level of entitlement gamers have. What’s worse, a company that literally kills babies or one that closes down a studio?
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I mean, they made a poll. Every company was there. They chose EA as literally the worst. Multiple times.
Forget the specifics, I’m stating that the gaming community as a whole LOVES a dogpile. It loves having a nemesis they can dunk on based on one or two tropes they picked up along the way.
It’s not just EA, it cycles. Ubi is in the hotseat at the moment (for reasons I suspect most can’t even properly articulate, incidentally). Epic is up there, too, particularly around these parts, where the Valve worship runs strong. But it’s definitely a pattern, it’s definitely not particularly rational or mature, and it’s definitely disproportionate.
Epic is up there mainly because Tim Sweeney is a fuckhead. The Epic exclusives don’t help my opinion of them either. I suspect I wouldn’t like Gabe Newell’s politics if he shared them, but he’s far too clever to do that.
He shared them a long while ago. I believe he said he was a libertarian at the time, and others have said the same thing about him. Who knows where he falls in the middle of the current postapocalypse, but he runs a major tech company and the few reports that leaked out from his bubble make it seem like he’s… you know, a techbro. A techbro with enough mental acuity to do long term planning, but a techbro after all. Could have told you from the fact that Steam is pretty much a gig economy app at the end of the day.
But also, I don’t need a politics purity test to buy shit. That can’t be how we operate society. There needs to be a better way than that handled at the public level, even if libertarians like Gabe don’t like it. That goes for Newell, Sweeny, Andrew Wilson and all the other tech CEOs. I don’t align with any of them, I just need a strong enough set of incentives for the government to keep them in check.
There is no gray, only black and white. EA can’t be a bad company because Nestlé is the worst. You’re either good or you’re bad. That’s how the world works 🤷
Anti Commercial-AI license
When your target demographic hates you is a lot different than the slaves that source your palm oil hating you.