Personally, I think I'd rather not even give them the word of mouth of having played their game. There's so much out there to play, and plenty of it doesn't come from a company doing lousy stuff like this, even if it's second hand.

[–] KRAW@linux.community 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

plenty of it doesn’t come from a company doing lousy stuff like this

So you only play indie games? Because that's basically the only way you avoid "companies doing lousy stuff."

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If there's any time playing only indie games is viable it's now. We've had high quality indie releases outpacing how fast you can play them for a few years now.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Especially on PC. Also, people forget that Indie doesn't necessarily mean "made by a small team/low budget". It just means it was produced by a studio that isn't at the behest of some massive corperation/faceless number crunching shareholders. CD Projekt Red is an independant studio, as is Valve.

Also, some games are developed independently by small studios, but then marketed and published by a larger company. Devolver is an example of a publishing house with an excellent track record of just letting the indie dev teams they work with do whatever they want.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

CD Projekt is publicly traded.

[–] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Yup. I tend to like Annapurna published games.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Steam Deck and other Linux handhelds make it super easy to play indies.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

So you only play indie games?

Pretty much.

More specifically, I only play new games that I can verify the author is receiving a fair wage. That tends to be pretty indie.

In the rare case that I'm somehow caught up on my indie game library, I also play open source games and AAA title abandonware.

Moving from "patient gamer" to "gamer with a strong stance against Nintendo's and EA's bullshit" honestly wasn't a huge deal. And it continues to be easy on my wallet.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

More and more lately, but not exclusively. I have an increasingly long list of things that are deal-breakers for me, and I haven't run out of stuff to play.