I believe that’s called “Pay to Win” in gamer culture.

Nobody ever hurt a company or made them reconsider their decisions by giving them money, no matter how little it was.

Unless they’re actively losing money in their deal, they’re not gonna care if the sale comes immediately or years later. If Epic exclusive + late “hold outs” = $$$, they’re just gonna do that until the equation changes.

I’m not sure why you’re trying to convince me about it. I’m not the one deciding to sell out to Epic.

You care about downvotes?

Not my intention on your comment. More so commenting everyone else’s reaction to my comments pointing to the same thing.

Presumably they think the money they get from Epic is more than the money they’ll lose in sales

Congrats on getting the point.

I’m aware of what an actual boycott is.

In what way is it not? They get Epic’s money for exclusivity and know they’ll still get sales after it ends from people that “boycott” them for doing that.

Buying the game later doesn’t hurt them, it just reinforces the same behavior later.

If that was actually a concern, why would companies do it at all?

And? It’s still profit. If it weren’t, it wouldn’t be listed.

In what way does that matter outside of driving sales? Which people like op happily still gave them?

Yes, we should reward decisions we dislike. That’ll show 'em.

So they still got your money eventually. That’s a double win, in their eyes.

That’s great. I’m glad to hear it is having at least some positive impact despite my reservations.

SED also uses the clickbait tactics, so I wouldn’t exactly consider them an ubiased source. They’re also all profiting from these tactics. Let’s not pretend it’s just some virtuous sacrifice to “teach the kids”.

LDS former NASA engineer that makes silly devices and gadgets. Some interesting videos, though he’s big into the clickbait game. Seems at least relatively sincere in his push for encouraging interest in STEM with children, though he can be a bit “flash over substance” for my tastes. But he is better then a lot of others I’ve seen in that regard.

Too cute. I typically don’t like squishy keys, but I’d make an exception here.

*Didn’t hear the audio at first. That…is a bit too much, lol.

You’re missing or ignoring my point. If the energy is provided by carbon neutral sources, then the amount used is irrelevant. That should be our goal. And I don’t know where you’re getting the notion that water resources are " boiled dry" or that gpu heat has any meaningful impact on the climate, but those aren’t actual issues.

And for the record, I’m not defending LLMs or generative images here. That bubble would be better off bursting, but the energy use isn’t why. Hell, it may be the only good aspect of the whole thing. With MS booting up old nuclear reactors, maybe it will revitalize interest so can make some use of that technology.

No, in this case I’m referring to the electric grid and what powers it.