fenynro@lemmy.worldtoDiablo@lemmy.world•The Diablo clickbait is unreal, is the enshitification of the internet reaching the gaming communities now?
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1 year agoConversely, not every aspect of society needs to be monetized and capitalized.
There existed a time when players made guides because they were passionate about the game, not because they were trying to hit engagement metrics or ad revenue breakpoints. The website GameFAQs, for example, holds thousands of user created guides, and many of them are extremely high quality.
Obviously this is not to say that we should expect all creators to work for free, especially if they’re trying to make a career of it, but there’s decades of precedent for passion-driven user created content and I don’t think it’s right to label it as entitlement when talking about the loss of those elements in a shift towards icy veins/maxroll paid guides.
It almost assuredly was not escalated to global. I received the same canned answer from them earlier and asked to be put in contact with a person from the European company.
Their response was to send me here: https://www.haier-europe.com/en_GB/technical-assistance/contact-us/
If you poke around, you’ll find that there is no effective way to contact anyone by email unless you’ve got a specific support question with a model number attached, so I sent an email directly to support.ecommerce@haier-europe.com
Will it matter for anything? Probably not. Will at least one guy have to read some stern words about an attack on open source development? Yep, and that’s good enough for me I guess :P