Why do people keep trying to hold corporate entities to the same standards as governmental organizations. They should stop engaging with customers so much and just ignore the whining masses.
As if it would actually hurt their customers.
And it would likely improve their products, as no company who changes their game every time the 1% of streamers started a bitching campaign has ever stayed good for long. A game that changes in response to every customer impulse becomes awful fast because it has no consistency of artistic vision. Games by committee suck.
If corporations are abusing their employees, people should be lobbying their governments for appropriate regulations or proper enforcement of existing regulations, not being completely useless by review bombing or pirating. All that does is feed the ever rising prices and contribute to anti consumer mass DLC practices.
Ugh gamer activists piss me off. The same hypocrits who get apoplectic over female lead characters raging over the actions of corporate entities as if they were best friends caught talking behind their backs. Or getting indignant when said entity follows the laws in other nations for access to larger markets (like ubisoft and china) when in reality it'd be irresponsible of them -not- to access those markets in a fiduciary sense, ie in regards to their shareholders.
It's just annoying when people so far outside their comfort zone get so self righteous about a topic of which they clearly are epically poorly informed.
Though it's also highly naive to think that just because a country has a regulation that says crunch can only be a maximum of 8 hours weekly that a company is going to follow those regulations if they are leniently enforced.
In a capitalist market, the only bottom line is profit. If you think that sounds lame, you should be campaigning for market reform, not whinging about broken promises as if they were a friend hurting your friendship in a highschool drama. It's naive as hell to be all clutching your pearls over such things when a lax regulatory environment has already essentially preordained a race to the bottom of 'worst practices' as necessary cost saving measures in order to remain competitive.
As a publically shared corporate entity they have one responsibility, to make money for their shareholders. If people want them to be held responsible on basic moral grounds or for essentially being bad citizens, campaign for market reform