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History suggests so. The community always caves.
Yeah that's true, I've been frustrated by that before. I just think including ourselves in that is admitting defeat immediately; we can each in this thread decide that we've reached our line! I sold my PS5 a few weeks ago, and am selling my TV at the moment. I'm back to a PS2 and will be buying a cheap small TV to play it. I don't agree with the way the gaming industry is going, and has been going since horse armour tbh.
Could but won't. Your argument is the same as always. Is it a good idea? Yes. Would it help us affect change? Yes. Will people do it? No.
Everyone is good at either not caring or accepting an excuse they can live with so they don't have to make a sacrifice. They would follow the majority if the majority actually did something but that is very likely impossible. Any movement to boycott AI games would have to compete with literally billions of dollars invested in marketing, advertising and social engineering that coerce us to buy in. At some point you just have to decide how you will delay with the reality that the majority really isn't an ally in waiting, its your biggest opposition, content to do whatever is easiest for themselves, even if you can see clearly how unwise it is.
Much more significant ethical and moral issues have arisen that have also been crushed by the selfishness of the herd. If you boycott, you cut yourself off, diverging from the majority culture, in which most of our collective resources are invested. The majority is what makes being a minority, of any kind, a risk because it moves us in a direction with little regard for who it leaves behind or why.