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Hence the analogy to cabinet making v.s. all of carpentry, he's been banned from something he's heavily specialized in. But I think that misses the point, 20 y
by avar 7y ago
Hence the analogy to cabinet making v.s. all of carpentry, he's been banned from something he's heavily specialized in.
But I think that misses the point, 20 years ago nobody would have been able to ban anyone from Quake III, because running the servers was distributed, today you have major game companies like Sony, Microsoft etc. that can ban you from entire game ecosystems.
In another 20 the whimsy of one company might be enough to ban you from all of gaming for all practical purposes.
- erikpukinskis 7y agoHow narrow would the exile have to be for you to be comfortable with it? Or, put another way, how big can my business get before I have to forgo my right to make my own decisions about who I collaborate with?
- avar 7y agoYou don't have to forgo any rights. I'm not saying a mob should get between you and a customer, but that customers should be more picky about who they deal with. A lot of people in this thread are calling for a boycott of Blizzard, I'm pointing out that this isn't a productive way to solve the problem at large while those people continue to subject themselves to the whims of other companies.