ps: if you interpret this as me defending nintendo, please go check your reading comprehension skills
It’s super easy to boycott Ubisoft because they make nothing but trash I don’t want to play. :P
Probably true of MS too, idk.
the thing with microsoft is that they went on a buying spree not too long ago so they own a bunch of studios now
bethesda? activision? blizzard? mojang? double fine? those are all microsoft now.
if you want to boycott microsoft gaming, as is asked by the BDS movement, you must boycott all that they own and publish. that’s not just halo and forza, it’s also the recent oblivion remaster, psychonauts 2, minecraft, the ori games, doom…
tho, of course, you can just pirate them
piracy makes for dead easy boycotts. just saying.
whatever you do, do not, BY ANY MEANS, think about visiting this site that, among other things, links to full, pirated, de-DRM’d games that are better experienced in their entirety without an intermediary platform like Steam, Epic Games, etc… DO NOT GIVE THE THOUGHT EVEN A MICROSECOND! This would totally be morally equivalent to “the bad stuff” that good wholesome companies that do mere totally excusable “oopsies”.
Dawg Microsoft has already been on a boycott from me for their unrepairable surface pro 3, I cant double boycott
Source for Microsoft’s involvement in genocide: https://bdsmovement.net/news/boycott-microsofts-xbox
I hadn’t heard about this or the Ubisoft thing (but I’m not at all surprised, ugh.) Thank you for spreading the information!
While I haven’t played Minecraft for a year, that’s probably the hardest to give up.
While I don’t mean to argue against boycotting, I really don’t think it matters in either a practical sense or as a gesture of solidarity whether you play a game you already paid for, especially if it’s in single-player. Also remember that corporations own practically everything, and even this banana is probably produced with slave labor or at least terrible conditions. If a thing is easy to give up, great, but you shouldn’t make your life less pleasant meaninglessly. Direct your effort and will towards effective actions rather than thoughts and prayers.
Minecraft tracks data. If you want to play it, i recommend installing a mod that stops it
Never heard about ubi sexual abuse and was about to say did you mean blizzard, but wow it indeed happened there too.
Seems like basically every company is covering up crimes that happen on their properties, and lots of those are sex crimes. I have no data, just anecdotally it’s been almost every company I’ve ever worked for and the experience of virtually every woman I’ve known well enough to talk candidly about this shit. I’m not talking about “nice ass” comments either, I’m talking like, “blow me or you’re fired” type shit.
Not an excuse for Ubisoft, but it’s kind of like how Covid is now endemic so we’re like “oh well”. This disease is so common we apparently don’t give a shit. There was a brief window of hope with “Me Too” but then reactionaries shut that down.
