>>2564410Y'know I've heard this point echoed a bunch of times before, sometimes accompanied by that "I can't believe we lost gamers to the right!" tweet but here's the thing: There's a less than zero requirement to "like" lootboxes or "games as a service" on "the right". You've got shit like Asmongold mocking the sheer greed of Activision-Blizzard's Bobby Kotick into a meme. Like at no point was there some understanding "Humm, yes, because of the class composition and the material forces at play I shall support lootboxes to own the feminists" or whatever. It was a battle that, as
>>2564736 said, people lost.
I remember when it was controversial to release a game unfinished then patch it later, now we've got early access. Horse Armor DLC was mocked but now every AAA game with multiplayer makes a killing selling skins. Like, no offense, it seems like you're implying "you're only allowed to dislike one thing."
Like let me use another example: the music industry. You had shit like Tipper Gore going after bands who hit the mainstream but had "inappropriate" lyrics. Now the record industry as a whole is shit, it often completely fleeces artists, its extremely litigious and obsessed with copyright. Are people suddenly not supposed to be upset that a couple of dumbass politicians were trying to act as moral arbiters over the whole genre? What do you personally think gets talked about more and gets more people outraged: corporations being money-grubbing assholes, which is a constant, or the local moral police howling "Won't somebody please THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!"
Ditto for comicbooks: everyone talks about the bad old days of the Comic Code Authority, you've got Garth Ennis whose made it his
whole fucking career to express the resentment he feels for the CCA turning Superheroes into the primary genre of western comics. How many people talk about comic book publishers choosing to move away from the old model of selling comic books in super markets and towards specialty retailers? Even people who aren't into comics broadly know about the CCA, they don't often know how, for example, Bill Finger was fucked over by Bob Kane who took sole credit for Batman for years.
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