PC gamer hatred of MW2 is laughably AWFUL!

[richardhutnik]

Mudface said:

richardhutnik said:

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.

Yes, clearly keeping quiet about it will bring the publisher to their knees.

Nothing scares publishers more than apathy towards their product.  Well, outright bans selling are worse, but beyond that, the world not caring one bit about a game is what scares them.  They will do just about anything to not have their product ignored, including staging fake protests, as was seen with Dante's Inferno.  Large scale stealth lack of sales, and a game bombing without a clue as to what happened is what the publishers are most concerned about.  When you decide to do large scale boycotts and hope the world knows it, and others spread the word, you give publishers free publicity for their game, and have the game rise above the normal level of white noise that prevents them from standing out.

In the end, what counts is the game selling or not selling.  If you explain to the publisher why you aren't buying, you are doing them a favor.  In regards to Modern Warfare 2, what do you think most of the world thinks of the game?  How about, "Wow, it must be something.  It broke sales records on the first day!"  Go ahead and try to stage a protest against that and tell the world you aren't going to buy it due to a lack of dedicated servers.  The world will go, "Dedicated what?" and "Don't you have other things better to do with you life, like find a job?  Or take up another hobby?"