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Ljink96 on 15 October 2022
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sc94597 said:
Ljink96 said:

I couldn't care less about Platinum games but the amount of virtue signaling/boycotting going on is just weird. She turned down the offer. Yeah, the offer sucked. That's why she turned it down. You want me to not buy something because a grown woman turned down a poor offer? Get the hell outta here. I've seen dudes examine the entire Activision Blizzard situation and still decide to buy, play and cover their games. But this is where you draw the line? Holy hell.

Eh, having labor-solidarity seems like a better reason to boycott a game than consumer-friendliness trends, in my opinion. Video games are luxury goods, something a person doesn't need to have to live a decent life. If the video game industry becomes marginally consumer unfriendly, nobody is going to starve from it. If I couldn't afford video games I'd partake in the dozen other hobbies I have.

Comparitively, a person needs to work to live  and to get a decent pay check to live a good life in most societies. 

If labor-solidarity is "virtue signaling" then virtue signaling is often a good thing, and is as old as wealth stratification itself (roughly 8000 years old, with the first agricultural revolution give or take.) 

Someone took their own life due to what transpired at Activision Blizzard. And yet, people didn't bat an eye and bought up Call of Duty, Diablo, Overwatch, etc.

My main point in my response (please read and comprehend the entire post) is that there are industries that have it way worse concerning labor solidarity but nobody boycotts those products. So I just found it really strange that for some products we can excuse how they're made. Who they hurt. But for others we can't. 

My main issue is with hypocrisy. I'm not going to boycott a work made by other talented people who need money, just because one person didn't get what they wanted. That's life. Unfortunately it's a feature of capitalism. You are replaceable. Should it change? Yes. Will it change? Probably not, because even if VAs unionize they are still replaceable or they'll just keep the Japanese VAs and sub it. 

It's a shame that the offer she received was low. I acknowledged that people should earn a living wage. Especially experienced talent. But the virtue signaling I'm talking about is coming from those who selectively virtue signal. If you're going to boycott this, then we all would probably be living in grass huts and sending messenger pigeons to communicate. Most of our working class is criminally underpaid. We chose capitalism and by extension, greed, as our way of life and that's how things will stay until this Earth burns.