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A lot of “reasonable” points about how they’ll be moderating, but with a clear undertone of their true objective being to silence criticism imo.
Maybe just don’t do stuff that causes people to heavily criticise and boycott your game?
Silencing critique is authoritarian bullshit. BUT, tw “fans” also say some heinous shit to CA’s employees all the time that is over the line.
Calling for boycotts due to decline in product quality isn’t unreasonable, especially after price hikes, but the players need to realize also that the business needs to raise prices every few decades to account for increased costs (wages, benefits, rent, etc). Both sides need to meet in the middle but gamers are notoriously unreasonable as a group
It’s worse than raising prices, it’s offering less content for higher prices. Total war pharoahs is a prime example, because it was clearly designed as a saga game(a cheaper, smaller scale total war title essentially) and then sold at full price when they realized the wildly unpopular, nobody-asked-for game Hyenas was getting shitcanned and they needed to trade what little faith the playerbase had for any cash possible.