Comment by JohnMakin
14 days ago
You find it strange that people want something different than the wild west status quo (which is not the status quo everywhere, btw) that they may not even fully understand or be informed enough to understand how it works or what the consequences are? like you actually expect even a savvy user of this game to be like ‘oh, of course they would be using my labor to profit for this technology i dont understand, duh?’ what a strange statement and world view.
Wanting something to be a certain way is very different from believing that it is. And yes, I would expect any moderately informed and technically savvy user to assume that the company is doing anything they possibly can to profit off of user data.
But you don't expect people to also try to profit off whatever said company is doing?
Sure they can, but niantic offered a free game, I already got some profit out of playing it.
I want this, too. Desire is a very different concept than expectation.