Mudface said:
Tomayto, tomato. I really can't see how refusing to buy a game because you have to pay for online multiplayer is any different to refusing to buy a game that costs $10 more and has less features than its predecessor. Maybe if console owners made a stand and supported these sort of actions, instead of lapping up whatever publishers throw at them and criticisng what are basically pissed off customers, we wouldn't be in the situation where the biggest games company in the world wants you to pay to play. |
When you formally organize not buying and demand others do the same, it is a boycott. When you decide to pass on a product quietly, it isn't. What is generally more effective is if a bunch of people do the later, and sales tank a lot. Then developers/publishers may decide to change things. But, if they look at their bottom line and see more money can be added by the changes, they will ignore the protests.
