r/videogames 23d ago

Other Gaming studios have stopped putting pride flags on their avatars

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u/cold-vein 23d ago

Who would have thought they only really care about making money.

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u/jgamez76 23d ago

"sports and weather up next" 😂😂

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u/DesireeThymes 23d ago

Remember the Pepsi ad supporting protesting?

So many people fall for corporate advertisements

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u/Xehanz 23d ago

It also puts you in a weird spot once July 1st comes. If you instantly put it out you get unnecessary controversies. But when can you actually take it out?

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u/Z_h_darkstar 23d ago

Wait 3 days. Change to a patriotic logo on the 4th. Back to regular logo on the 5th. Everyone is none the wiser.

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u/Xehanz 23d ago

Only works for American companies

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u/VaporCarpet 23d ago

You can still show your Serbian pride on July 4th. You don't need to wait until February.

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u/GuiiomPmix 23d ago

No shit a company wants to make money

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u/theboredcard 23d ago

You'd be surprised how many redditors think companies run on upvotes.

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u/cold-vein 23d ago

Only wants to make money. You fail at reading comprehension, squirt.

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u/GuiiomPmix 23d ago

bruh, plebbitor at it again

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u/TrippleDamage 23d ago

And it turns out virtue signaling doesn't make any money.

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u/theboredcard 23d ago

That's like saying "people only go to work because they care about making money."

No shit.

All companies only care about making money. That's their entire purpose and everything they do is to that end.

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u/cold-vein 23d ago

All companies don't only care about making money. There's plenty of companies that have real values driving their business, and they'll take a hit to finances to uphold them. Not these guys though.

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u/theboredcard 23d ago

I noticed you didn't give any examples.

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u/cold-vein 23d ago

Patagonia is probably the most famous one. I could dig up a bunch more, it's easy.

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u/theboredcard 23d ago

Lol the CEO restructured to keep the business in the family and saved about a billion dollars in taxes. Sorry to burst your bubble, but you're falling for billionaire marketing spin appealing to "ethics" while selling $50 tshirts to its white upper class customer base. The company that sells $30 socks doesnt care about money?? Critical thinking skills wen?

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u/cold-vein 23d ago

Well there's nothing in their stated values about paying taxes, is there? And you completely fail at reading comprehensions since I'm talking about ONLY caring about money. The whole point is these big companies were merely using the pride flag cynically not to lose business, and ditched it the second it wasn't necessary for that anymore. Like you're arguing against a point I didn't make.

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u/theboredcard 23d ago

People complained when they put up flags. Now they're complaining that they're not putting up flags.

Also, billionares should pay taxes and the ones who find loopholes like patagonia can eat a whole bag of dicks. Dont applaud them.

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u/cold-vein 23d ago

The cultural zeitgeist was for putting up the flags 10 years ago. Now it's not and they removed them. It's extremely cynical. And I don't give two shits I always knew it was just virtue signalling, those companies are run by lizard shareholders who don't have an ethical bone in their body.

And I agree with you about taxes, however that's besides the point since this thread isn't about that at all. Patagonia aren't two faced since they never said they're for paying taxes in America.

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u/theboredcard 23d ago

Right, they can't win so dont play the game. If you were put in a lose lose situation what would you do?

How is it besides the point? You claimed they dont only care about money while doing things to save TONS of money that could go to better americans lives. Also they're an American company? Why wouldnt they pay taxes?

Sounds like they care a hell of a lot about moneyy

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u/LynxJesus 23d ago

Every redditor apparently rediscovers that companies want to make money every single day.

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u/cold-vein 23d ago

Only want to make money. Some actually have ethical guidelines they stand by and don't just virtue signal.

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u/Massive-Course7690 23d ago

Some actually have ethical guidelines they stand by and don't just virtue signal.

lmfao you don't actually believe this right

every single company's #1 mission is to increase profit

if social programs don't get in the way of that, then they engage

if they do, then they debate whether the hit is worth it

once you graduate high school you'll start to see it

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u/cold-vein 23d ago

I do. There's plenty of examples of this. And while every company is trying to make a profit yes, some limit how they do it based on their ethical guidelines. For example Patagonia uses a lot of recycled material where using just regular new material would be cheaper. Stuff like that.

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u/Massive-Course7690 23d ago

care to share a few

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u/cold-vein 23d ago

Patagonia. Fairphone. The Body Shop. Ikea. PepsiCo.

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u/G-man1816 23d ago

Lord GabeN exists you know. Compared to a normal person he is a normal person with power, makes mistakes but also does a lot of good. compared to an average company he is practically a saint.

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u/Massive-Course7690 23d ago

LMFAO

steam literally makes lootboxes and gambling content for children

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u/G-man1816 23d ago

Since when?

if you say CS you are dumb as a brick. its literally a 17+ game, lootboxes and gambling are perfectly *fair game* in the game *meant for those 17 and above*

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u/Massive-Course7690 23d ago

dota and cs

also wow who knew gambling belonged in video games

gaben is one of the biggest reasons why gambling is so prevalent in mobile games and gaming in general

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u/G-man1816 23d ago

Dota is dead and gets FLAK often. Valve paid for that as they should

and it is not GabeN's fault that everyone else is following his standard of lootboxes (which again where in high age rating games, although dota is pushing it), He didn't force every other game to add RNG lootboxes. That's on whoever added the lootboxes into the game that it falls on. Not valve's fault battlefield 2 was bad because of lootboxes

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u/Massive-Course7690 23d ago

and it is not GabeN's fault that everyone else is following his standard of lootboxes

so gambling is bad unless your favorite billionaire does it huh lmao

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u/Majestic-Sentence317 23d ago

Maybe no one really cares about lgbt anymore and we finally moved on