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What do you consider when shopping for a new video game console? The games available for the console? How much it will cost you? What about the ethical impact of your choices? Do you weigh what the creation of that console does to the environment, whether it was built in sweat shops or contains supplies sold to fund wars?(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); The notion of “ethical consumerism” is an increasing concern among shoppers of all types, including gamers, according to Jordan Louviere, professor of marketing at University of Technology Sydney and executive director of the Centre for the Study of Choice. Louviere, an internationally recognized expert in consumer choice modeling, said that while many of today’s consumers aren’t aware of or educated about สล็อต such issues, that seems to be changing. “It is likely that these issues will play ever larger roles going forward over time,” Louviere told Kotaku, “and those companies that are smart enough and strategically on the ball will see that there are potentially huge returns to product changes/innovations and associated sales and marketing from doing this.” While examining where consumer electronics, like the PS3, Wii and Xbox 360, come from and where the money you spend on them goes may sound strange to some, Louviere points out that it’s just one more feature set that consumers can look at. But is balancing the global impact of your gaming habits a reasonable expectation? “‘Reasonableness’ depends entirely an a person’s individual value system,” he said. “All products and services have tangible, functional and other features. The choices that people make involve taking the features into account to try to get a product that best suits them for a price level that they are willing to pay to get them.” And for those interested, there are plenty of ethical issues to consider, topics to wade p31 เครดิตฟรี 188 through. Each year Greenpeace releases a guide that rates how “green” different consumer electronics, including video game consoles, and their parent companies are, based on, among other things, the chemicals used in the products and the energy consumption of an item. “Gamers who are concerned about toxics leaching to water supplies and causing troubled pregnancies and other health defects should care,” said Daniel Kessler, communications manager for Greenpeace International. “We believe that manufacturers of electronic goods, who have benefited from sales of their products, should take responsibility for them from production through to the end of their lives. To prevent an e-waste crisis, manufacturers must design clean electronics with longer lifespan, that are safe and easy to recycle and will not expose workers and the environment to hazardous chemicals.” https://kotaku.com/guest-op-ed-toxics-electronics-and-why-consoles-matte-5345196 Kessler says that Nintendo remains in last place in their annual guide, though the company has shown some improvements https://kotaku.com/greenpeace-still-says-nintendo-is-bad-for-the-environme-5549072 Enough: The Project to End Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity tracks the use of certain minerals, like tin, tatalum, tungsten and gold, that can be mined in สล็อต

the Congo and used to help fund the war there. Some of these minerals are found in a variety electronics including video game consoles. https://kotaku.com/did-buying-your-gaming-console-help-fund-war-atrocities-5574360 “We’re accustomed to not asking too many questions about where our video games and other belongings come from,” said David Sullivan, policy manager for Enough. “But given that we could be indirectly financing some of the worst human rights abuses in the world via our purchases of these products, I think most consumers would want to be able to choose not to support those kinds of things.” The issue with tracking the use of these minerals, though, is that they are processed at facilities, mostly located in Asia, where they blend together with minerals from u31.com เข้าสู่ระบบ all around the world. So Enough is asking companies to try and keep these minerals out of their products. “Microsoft and Sony are both part of an industry group that is working to create a system to deal with conflict tantalum,” Sullivan said. “Nintendo is not part of this group.” Nintendo didn’t provide a comment for this article, but has said in the past that they ask that their supplies comply with the company’s corporate social responsibility guidelines. Professor Louviere says that international research conducted by his center found that “many consumers are willing to pay small, but significant premiums to choose products that are not environmentally harmful and/or that have environmental benefits.” p31 เครดิตฟรี 188

“The middle ground is for all consumers to understand that climate change and environmental degradation are real, they are not going to go away, and unless we all do something about it, they will only get worse going forward,” Louviere said. While many of the most vocal gamers express disinterest at best about topics like green gaming or conflict minerals, these passionate gamers are also the ones most likely to participate in a different type of ethical consumerism, perhaps without even realizing it. They are the ones often quick to sign petitions and call for boycotts of companies perceived to be mistreating developers or over-working employees, another ethical concern http://kotaku.com/026800/ea-promises-changes-in-leaked-internal-memo It may not be recognized as such, it may not yet be the first thing a gamer thinks about, but it seems that socially responsible gaming is coming. Well Played is a weekly news and opinion column about the big stories of the week in the gaming industry and its bigger impact on things to come. Feel free u31.com เข้าสู่ระบบ

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