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    That’s the loud ones. I haven’t bought a single game from a Microsoft studio nor any game from Ubisoft. My library is nearly entire made up of games from indie studios.

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      It also suggests that boycotts are binary.

      I’m sure you can see a noticeable decline in player retention for games from all 3 publishers vs the rest of the industry. And this goes for all of them.

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    Why would the demographic of gamers prioritize games?

    Also i know over a dozen people personally that stopped playing all activision/blizzard games after that controversy.

    If people quitting WoW isn’t dedication to the cause I don’t know what is.

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    This is expected. Only one affects the gamers in the immediate short term. I’d be shocked if this wasn’t the case

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      They provide Azure services and, like every single applicable American institution without exception, provide specialized assistance to help Israel maintain apartheid and (more recently) carry out genocide

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        How though? How and why? Why do Microsoft have a vested interest in carrying out a genocide against Palestine? Or conversely, why do they want to help Israel carry out genocides?

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          Money. it is all just business. as long as israel pays for services companies will deliver. the only thing stopping them from delivering, is an embargo. but since microsoft is an american company, i dont think chances for that are high.

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            Money. it is all just business.

            Brother, eww. Money ruins everything. The end of a restaurant visit. A nation. Yuck.

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    Why do we care about what gamers think anyway? The rhetoric that comes from the video game subculture is just the most heinous garbage and they’re fucking losers.