>>720720175
"Just vote with your wallet!" is the warcry of people who know they'll win. If meth was legal, every tweaker would say "just vote with your wallet and don't buy it, and there'll be less rampaging junkies!" because they know they can't lose. The material is too predatory, the money pumped in is already too big for it to fail. It's often labeled as a platitude, but it's worse than one, because at least those indicate someone means well. Telling someone to vote with their wallet is directly antagonistic, where at best the person saying it is totally unaware and somewhat naive, and in most cases, it's a convenient cover to shift the blame onto you and deflect from the game itself because they're rats with electrodes in their brain.
They might point to one or two things that sucked and died, and say "look, they voted with their wallets against Brink! you don't hear much about Heroes of the Storm anymore, do you?" with a smug finger-wag as though those exceptions to the rule prove their point, instead of looking at the reality: the people behind those games saw those failures, got way greedier and way more evil, and are now making money hand-over-fist because there is no effective way for a consumer to protest the Fucking Retard demographic, in anything. But those people will never point to something they like, like WoW or FF14 or Borderlands or Diablo Immortal or whatever the fuck dopamine blackmail delivery service they sink 72 hours into a week, and say "well, it must be good, because lots of people vote for it". That would give away their argument for what it is.
You are never talking to someone in good faith when they tell you to vote with your wallet. Rarely, it might be someone deeply out of touch, but most often you're talking to fucking junkie. They do not care about legitimate criticisms or flow-on effects. They care about getting their fix, and they see your argument as a threat to it. They're gloating that you can't take their crack pipe away.
