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[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

lemmy seems to have a hard on for painting Nintendo particularly as this awful terrible corporation. Most likely because they are bitter they won't lower their game prices. And they turn it into this weird moral issue and compare them to Steam as if Steam is the 'good guy' and Nintendo is the 'bad guy'. it's basically virtue signalling over consumer choice or something, instead of political issues. because only bad stupid people would ever own a switch or something.

I mean, cool. I don't buy a lot of shit from a lot of companies because I also don't find their pricing and business model appealing. But it's not a moral issue in any way. There are far worse examples of course, too. Jeep makes objectively shitty cars for decades, but people keep buying them, and complaining about how they are shitty, for the lifestyle image/cool club they think owning a Jeep puts them in.

But you're 100% right and basically no company is giving customers refunds over any of this because it's already enough of a clusterfuck as it is to get their own refunds. But hey, let's not let complex and costly reality get in the way of idealistic consumer entitlement over like $20 bucks, which even if they could give people the refunds, it probably would among to very little money.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"GUYS I DONT LIKE PEOPLE STANDING UP FOR THEMSELVES, WHY NINTENDO CUSTOMERS NOT BE LIKE OTHER CUSTOMERS AND NOT STAND UP FOR THEMSELVES!!!11!!!1!!"

[–] KRAW@linux.community 2 points 10 hours ago

The best way to "stand up for yourself" when a company that sells a luxury product is to not buy said product. In which case this tariff nonsense doesn't affect you. More people were affect by the increase in the cost of groceries and gas than the cost of a Switch 2.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

yeah, your human rights are being violated, clearly.

meanwhile pharma companies are murdering people with drug costs, but this is where you draw the line. very brave and strong and smart!

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Yes, because multiple things can't be fought at once.

Big brain moment for you with that laughably pathetic attempt at a gotcha.