Then I'm obligated to keep pirating.
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And i'm not obligated to buy anything from them in the future!
I mean... They're not. And that's the problem.
I remember the AIG debacle and how Obama went ape shit to get the money back even though the payouts were contractual obligations to AIGs employees.
Why would Donnie ever intervene in trying to get the people their money back... He's been screwing us over for over a year now. Ain't going to stop now.
Funny how customers are not obligated to purchase further products.
Did anyone actually expect them to?
Honestly this seems an easy win for them in court, even if it's a PR nightmare.
Consoles are not essential goods, so if you were willing to pay the inflated price, it doesn't matter if it was inflated because the manufacturer wanted a bigger margin or because your president is an idiot.
Companies set the prices to maximize profit, so it's not like the previous price was lower because they love us, it was the price where they thought sales×margins were bigger given the circumstances.
I don’t blame companies for this at all. The republicans did this.
That's kind of understandable as they were also the ones who paid the taxes directly while importing the products.
If they kept prices low and ate the tariffs, I agree with you.
If they raised prices to include the tariffs, screw them.
lol They paid it directly, then raised the prices of every good effected by the tariffs. So then they got paid back directly by customers. Now they get the tariff refund, and the extra profits from raising their prices in the first place. But sure- it's understandable that they wouldn't do the moral thing. They gotta make sure their bottom line go up, regardless of it being the obviously wrong decision for their customers.
Well not to disagree with you, but this is how tariffs are supposed to work. They make foreign products more expensive so consumers pick a US product instead.
The price is the price and everyone is free not to buy a luxury product like a PlayStation. If you did buy it after all, that means you agreed to the price.
So close! Tariffs SHOULD be used to create incentive to buy local and invest in your local economy. However Microsoft is a US company- so that kinda negates your entire point. Since they are included in the group of corps not paying forward the refunds to the ones that actually deserve the money back. Why are you simping for multi-billion dollar corps?
Microsoft is a US company but Xbox is an imported product, being manufactured in China. Therefore it was subject to the tariffs.
Let me ask you a question.
Say you export bananas to the European Union. Then the people in the EU vote to prioritize Europe above every other country (MEGA) and thanks to them you suddenly have to pay import tariffs on every banana. You are forced to raise sales prices to compensate which reduces the number of sales and lowers your turnover. Now it turns out the tariffs were unlawful and you get money back from the EU. Would you feel that that money belongs to the people in the EU?
Yes, because I'm not an amoral psycho that runs a multi-billion dollar corp, or one of their brainless sycophants that goes through social media simping for them to make more money.
Well, at least we agree there. I too have no idea why people like to suck corporate d.
If you hate a company, don't buy stuff from them. Don't go whining that they owe you money after you voluntarily spent hundreds of dollars on them, that's a weak move.
Also if you don't want tariffs, talk to the brain dead people around you that vote for people like Trump instead of blaming companies that aren't even from the US for having to deal with tariffs.
Legal tariffs work this way.
Supreme Court strikes down tariffs | SCOTUSblog https://share.google/1k0UC2WvKVJUprCTr
These tariffs are such a great way to filter more tax money to the rich.
They can also hide price increases in there. During times of inflation and shortages, companies make record profits.
Of course it is! You'd be hard pressed to find a Trump policy that isn't designed specifically to enrich some obscenely wealthy person or another.
The public had to pay the illegal tariffs themselves and then had to pay again to bail the corporations out from them!
Then I'm not obligated to pay for games for a while.
Another visitor! Pirate a while. Pirate forever!
There are decades of great games I've never played and the steamdeck is more than capable of most that I want to play. I'm satisfied to wait it out.
But then the potential viruses. How would someone go about locking down their ship?
Edit: I guess a separate hard drive would do.
But any file could say "FitGirl" and its not like some person or organization will vouch for them due to fear of being caught?
It is important for anyone reading this to realize two things:
- If you haven’t torrented or similar since 2010, it’s different than you remember. Much more organized.
- most Fortune 500 companies are more predatory and invasive than most pirate sites anymore. It’s good to be on your guard, but by and large the the communities where you find stuff self regulate really well.
Of course they are not obligated to. That's not the issue here.
It would have been the morally right thing to do and these companies just show (once again) they do not follow any morals.
I've never bought anything from Nintendo or Microsoft, so saying I won't in the future will be of no consequence, but at least Sony was on the table for me in regards to a new phone maybe.
WHY ARE THEY GETTING REFUNDS!?
its too complicated to give refunds unless its a big company. trump made a huge huge fucking mess
I have a Sony Bravia TV. The next TV won't be Sony. I have Windows 10. The next operating system won't be Microsoft. See what you're doing Sony and Microsoft?
Why the hell do you still have windows at this point? The TV is hardware, I get that. But windows? Just change it.
Believe it or not there are things you simply cannot run on Linux.
Why would they refund the money? They know that their customers are so addicted that they will continue buying. Same with not owning digital games; the buyers will keep on buying. Complaining, yes, but buying none the less.
That's great! Keep buying (pay a subscription) for all their overpriced stuff guys! 😃👍
I got a tariff bill of 30$ for a fucking hockey trading card from Canada..good luck getting me to pay that shit
We all know that when a new game comes out, people are going to bend right over and take it hard.
Principles and self respect is a thing of the past.
People planning on buying their games anyway have found this comment I see...
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