#StopPayingGames

2026-06-27 12:41 UTC

This is self explanatory; to all who do not support the idea of ownership, there shall be no more funding, regardless of their game’s quality. Advice: buy from GOG, avoid single player games which require internet connection or 3 party launchers. Repost from reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/StopKillingGames/comments/1ugzirg/stoppayinggames/

Replies (12)

@titanicx@lemmy.zip 2026-06-28 03:07

Online games cannot last forever. Just a fact.

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@LePoisson@lemmy.world 2026-06-27 23:50

I feel like maybe I need to read more about the whole “stop killing games” thing. It’s awesome and fine if they expect at some point the game will be able to be played through a free multiplayer tool that enables someone to host and pay for private games. It’s quite another if they think companies should have to shell money out of pocket indefinitely to run infrastructure for multiplayer games after x years of release and/or once player base passes a certain threshold number. I’m admitting my ignorance here but I do think it’s fair to at least question both sides some

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@ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2026-06-27 12:53

It is not self-explanatory. You needed to explain it. On its face, it sounds like it’s saying to just pirate. I can get behind the message, but these three words aren’t it. I know that coming up with effective, catchy slogans is hard, but this one’s not going to do well.

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@Abyssian@lemmy.world 2026-06-27 23:37

At this point I think it’s safe to assume all large companies are evil and so piracy of any software/media/etc created by a large company is the moral thing to do.

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@flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 2026-06-27 18:47

I agree with the thrust of this, but I have no faith in the resolve of the average consumer to make a difference.

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@absquatulate@lemmy.world 2026-06-27 18:20

We were barely 1.3 million that bothered to sign a petition, and you want to convince a meaningful amount of people to give up games from 95% of publishers? Good luck lol. I figure this battle is lost so I started hoarding and archiving everything i come across that works/can work offline

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@oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 2026-06-28 00:06

I swear even after staring at it for 30s that said “ESL FACESIT GROUP”.

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@vane@lemmy.world 2026-06-27 18:24

Why ESL is bad ? They don’t make any games. They just do esports that promote gaming. Why Sega is bad ? What did Bandai Namco ? Only one Chinese company but no explicitly Tencent who owns Supercell and have 1/3 Epic Games, 1/3 Ubisoft it is just it’s brand name Level Infinite that means nothing. No Scopely who owns Monopoly Go that alone makes $200M per month on gambling. Any mobile gambling companies with micro transactions that are in fact casinos should be there instead of companies that just make AAA flops.

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@libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 2026-06-28 06:24

all corporations are bad

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@ysjet@lemmy.world 2026-06-28 06:25

I’m going to be honest, this sounds like an astroturf campaign trying to reduce SKG into absurdity to harm it’s credibility.

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@super_user_do@feddit.it 2026-06-28 22:51

Are the companies shown in the picture selected on what basis? Are they sorted for anti consumer practices or what? Bc like what did SEGA do

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@grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 2026-06-28 13:27

This is pretty much impossible. I don’t think y’all realize how much space those corporations control. It’s like trying to boycott Nestle.

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