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  • NIB@lemmy.worldtoGames@sh.itjust.works•Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countriesEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It is free. But they can gather data, get you into their ecosystem, hopefully making it more likely you buy a playstation or other playstation published games. Eventually maybe they want to have cross progress between pc and playstation or have playstation achievements on pc, maybe their own steam like client.

    Ultimately these countries are probably responsible for less than 5% of their total sales. Most of them are either tiny or poor or both. It does have countries like Egypt, Albania, Serbia, Morocco and Algeria but most of the banned countries are irrelevant in terms of sales.

  • NIB@lemmy.worldtoGeneral Discussion@lemmy.world•Does this plan make sense? v3
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    1 year ago

    Here it’s a small fine

    People will call it a cashgrab, that will mostly affect poor people(since the rich people both vote and also dont care about small fines).

    it’s also a day off

    Greek elections are always on Sunday and people can be given a day off if their voting location is far away(especially back in the day, when moving your voting location was hard).

    Greece is a pretty failed state from what I’ve seen

    I have been shitting on Greece for my entire life, but it aint cool when non greeks do it. Yes, Greece is fucked but i wouldnt really call it a failed state. It is a shithole but only greeks get to call it a shithole. It also relatively shitholey, in comparison to western european countries.

    It just happens to be the worst “western” country. And yes, it is in the East, but the West/East thing was a Cold War thing and Greece was with the “West”. Nowadays, many “eastern european” countries have reached and surpassed Greece.

    In any case, take a look at the wikipedia map, which countries have compulsory voting

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting

    If you exclude Australia, all other countries are shitholes. And i am sure australians will be the first to tell you that Australia is also a shithole and politically fucked.

    As for why compulsory voting, it helps moderate extremism and represents most of society as a whole.

    It doesnt. If anything, it might do exactly the opposite. When a greek neonazi party was popular, a lot of “apolitic” greeks supported it not because they supported neonazism but because “fuck the system, at least they will go in and smash some heads”. When clueless people are forced to vote, they might be clueless about what they are voting.

    America’s issue is the first past the post, winner takes all system. If the US had a more representative system, that allowed third parties and coalitions(like almost all other democratic countries have), things would have been better.