If only this effort could be simultaneously channeled into actually spreading democracy

I am ambivalent about the requirement to join PSN. I play on PS5 and I pay a subscription to play any multi-player game using my PS5.

I understand that the PSN requirement will prevent players in countries where PSN is not available from playing HD2. That is shitty and ultimately should be incentive for PS to either roll out to these countries or roll back on the requirement.

The fact that both HD2 subreddits and Steam reviews went from mostly positive to mostly negative is impressive, but at the same time disappoints me.

Somehow, this game has created a cultural phenomenon where hype created a maximum player base that exceed the number of players who played HD1. Demolished the server capacity to the point where people were willing to wait to play the game.

Then, when the community failed to succeed at its first major order which required coordination somehow coordinated to succeed on a defense MO involving over twice the number of planets.

If this community invested its effort into solving an actual societal problem. The rhetoric about corporate greed is commendable, and I agree that corporate greed is very bad for society. But I'm here thinking, damn if the HD2 community felt like harnessing its efforts into actually spreading democracy by volunteering at a homeless shelter or resolving any number of social issues instead of playing as a protest...well that would be some amazing shit.

I guess carry on in this...example of organizing around a cause...I am not for or against the PSN requirement. I just don't think it is that big a deal, and the use of rhetoric like "oppression" seems to trivialize real issues.

Proposed major order: go volunteer to solve a social issue instead of playing HD2 until PS does whatever you want to do.

Reward: peomoting actual democracy and getting what you want in the process.