| flagstaad said: I think we can make a difference, but I do think it will not be easy, we can start by speaking in a more positive way, lets stop calling Wii U ports "shitty" and tell that they are flawed or imperfect. Recomend the games anyway, most of them you can get very cheap at the moment and some Wii U owners don't know about their existence, you will not believe the surprise faces I get when I mention that you can play Assassin's Creed IV on Wii U. Word of mouth is still important, very important indeed, we don't have to make the environment more hostile that is already is for publishers, let's stop calling for boycotts that help no-one and don't ignore the Wii U ports right away, as customers in a first world country you are used to be always right but think about us third world people who cannot afford a second console and will have to decide between buying a Wii U with the franchises that we love and forget about all other games or ignore the console and go for the competition and miss all the nintendo fun. Give your friends or family members the Wii U version of a game as their birthday gifts (or something along those lines) if they have the console, they may bother you because they wanted the PS3 or 360 version but is a gift and they should not complain too much. All those things feel like a small stuff, but if more people does it we can make a difference, I already have sold 11 copies of Deus Ex, 10 of Splinter cell, 9 of Assassin's Creed IV, 5 of Batman: Arkham Origins and a few more. |
I think publishers need to understand that the reason many of us don't want to buy these third party games is because they just don't stack up. Unfortunately that is a bit of a catch 22 with the fact that this spreads negative word of mouth, but I don't think us selling a few copies to a few people months after release is more important than communicating how we feel to publishers.
I agree that calling for boycotts is silly though. Theres no point in that. If someone wants to buy these games, more power to them, but when publishers act like they are surprised that some of these games don't sell, I can't keep quiet about that. They need to know that it is largely their own fault...
I also think the fact that few people know about AC on Wii U (and other 3rd party games) is because of the publisher's way of handling the games as second tier and not treating them as important as the other SKU in terms of marketing. This is a larger problem that should be fixed on the publisher end (we have seen how much of an impact the "pretend exclusive" marketing strategy has, but there is no reason to implement that if you aren't being paid off...).
