Game companies just don't get it!

This is a 3-panel comic meme using the popular boardroom meeting suggestion format to satirize how video game companies handle piracy and competition from platforms like Steam. In the first panel, a panicked executive asks the team how to deal with Steam and game pirates. In the second panel, three team members give suggestions: the first two suggest aggressive, punitive measures (lawsuits and strict anti-piracy measures), while the third suggests the obvious solution: improving the company's own services to be good enough that people don't want to pirate or use other platforms. In the final panel, the executive reacts angrily to the sensible suggestion, and the person who gave the good suggestion is thrown out of a high-rise office window, illustrating that game companies refuse to accept the obvious correct solution and instead cling to ineffective, customer-hostile anti-piracy tactics.

Dialogue

How do we deal with Steam and game pirates?
Lawsuits!
Anti-Piracy!
Make our services not suck!

Overview

This is a 3-panel comic meme using the popular boardroom meeting suggestion format to satirize how video game companies handle piracy and competition from platforms like Steam. In the first panel, a panicked executive asks the team how to deal with Steam and game pirates. In the second panel, three team members give suggestions: the first two suggest aggressive, punitive measures (lawsuits and strict anti-piracy measures), while the third suggests the obvious solution: improving the company's own services to be good enough that people don't want to pirate or use other platforms. In the final panel, the executive reacts angrily to the sensible suggestion, and the person who gave the good suggestion is thrown out of a high-rise office window, illustrating that game companies refuse to accept the obvious correct solution and instead cling to ineffective, customer-hostile anti-piracy tactics.

Origin notes

This meme originates as a Reddit meme as noted in the source information. It uses the well-known 'boardroom suggestion' meme template, which is commonly used to show management rejecting a common-sense suggestion that they dislike by throwing the speaker out of an office window. It jokes about a widespread criticism of the video game industry: that game publishers prioritize fighting piracy over improving their own products and customer experience.

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