why is it always us who’s entitled? why is it never blizzard, who is obviously () entitled to our good will and blind faith as consumers, why is it not streamers who fancy themselves entertaining enough to warrant gifts and donations?
why are we entitled for wanting to spend our money how we see fit?
lmao are you serious? This is the most reaching argument I’ve seen in a while. First of all, huge swaths of the playerbase are adults, but second how does ANY child even get money in the first place? From adults. No child even owns the game without first getting money from, most likely, their parents.
Blizzard isn’t entitled to your good will and blind faith. I’ve been pretty harsh on them for a variety of topics in the past. It’s not blind faith to not hate them once in a while or deride an entitled doomer.
Whether or not a streamer is entitled varies from streamer to streamer. Some are douchebags, but some are pretty nice people. But either way, they entertain people for money, and people give them money because they know if they don’t said streamer won’t stream. It’s a transaction. They’re not entitled to anything. If they’re not entertaining to enough people they won’t get money out of it and will have to find a living elsewhere.
You’re not entilted for wanting to spend your money how you see fit. If you don’t like any of the streamers? Don’t spend your money. That’s fine. But thinking that any streamer should be available for this, even Joe Blow whose lucky to have more than 1 viewer because he’s your buddy, or some dude who can’t land twitch partner because not enough people know who they are isn’t helpful to Blizzard in the immediate. Expecting them to cater to your whims specifically because you don’t like how they’re handling it is entitlement.
you were the one who made an appeal to ethics and you brought up the breast milk incident.
would we rather support the downtrodden (little guy) or the treader? (big guy), right? i don’t think they’re that different, functionally.
does supporting the little guy make that much of a difference when they still work to fulfil the big guy’s vision? when they promote blizzard’s IP? when they work to drive user engagement up? when they don’t rock the boat because they’ll lose our on their benefits?
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The game is rated T for Teen, no one under 13 should be playing the game anyway.
But again, children can’t acquire their own money unless an adult gives it to them. Why is THIS the hill you’re dying on? It’s the stupidest point I’ve seen so far.
He also made videos mocking and making fun of me and many other forumers who were pro-brig during the Brig-hate/harass her VA crisis . No way in hell I’m supporting him
Like him or not he was BIG part of the community that overwatch has today, the man literally breathed overwatch for years. And if OW2 makes a comeback on launch he will be a big part of its success, you dont have to like him but the dude pulls viewers like no other
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which isn’t untrue - he’s the CEO, of course an ungodly amount of profit goes to him. and he’s obviously done nothing to help the work “enviroment” at ABK. faust refers to him as the “breast milk bandit” - i’m not going that far because i don’t want another tempban, but we can agree that he most likely was complicit in the covering up of abuse against women at ABK.
as bad as he is, as terrible as this institution is, the “female/trans/otherwise small and kind strangers” work to fulfil his goals for OW, if they don’t work already for ABK (e.g. soe and the league) - all in all it’s not a stretch to say they work for him.
but they don’t have to. they could stream games made by studios without histories of abuse, they could
even if we donate to them directly, they still work for this abusive and misogynistic hellhole and/or work to keep its IPs relevant/profitable.
nope, but i don’t see it as any better in terms of ethics. the only saving grace is that the money goes to them, but they still uphold blizzard’s hegemony (even by a little bit)
Faust was pointing out the irony of people wanting to pay Blizzard directly instead of streamers because of their moral resistance to said streamers. A combination of “these streamers are all bad people, and I want to support the little guys, can I pay Blizzard instead?” That was the irony that Faust was pointing out. They weren’t trying to make some grandiose ethics call. I still don’t really understand your point.