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by MisterTea 1116 days ago
Either they hold their ground and boycott playing the game or they don't. If something being fun is enough to tempt you to compromise your moral beliefs then you have a problem.
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> If something being fun is enough to tempt you to compromise your moral beliefs then you have a problem.

My take might be naive, but isn’t pleasure in general — fun in this specific case — the chief reason that people compromise their moral beliefs?

Though I don’t particularly understand the moral judgment about online multiplayer. But I am sympathetic to judgments about “always-online” single player functionality.

If it's fun, that's great. Adding multiplayer elements to otherwise single-player games or franchises usually just shits them up, though.
I don’t think it’s a compromise of your moral beliefs to play a fun multiplayer game

Or at least it ought not to be