S.T.A.G.E. said:
Intentionally buying a game used is a buyer right but it also doesnt support the developer. Boycotting can be used to sabotage a company or product if they do not respond accordingly to your wishes. Capcom should've been given the finger from gamers for the DLC on MVC and their countless iterations of the same SF games for years. Buying a used game in no way goes back to a company, just to Gamestop and other used stores. Sabotaging a games user metacritic that has the highest reviewer score shows how childish a lot of gamers are. They need to cut those things off. I only buy used games I had no intention of buying at all in the past. |
Ok, going as far as to call all of this a boycott is a bit ludicrous. Capcom put forth a product to a target market that wasn't there with an massively inflated sales expectation; consumers from the old target market didn't want the product and DmC failed to find a new market since their target market didn't exist in the first place; and so the product didn't sell anywhere near sales expectations. That's basic economics, not boycotting. Yes, there were small pockets of the fanbase that took all of this THAT seriously, but for most it was "Call me when they give us Devil May Cry 5" upon which they promptly ignored the game, as is their right.
Besides, boycotting is completely legal so it doesn't matter either way. Fans told Capcom they wouldn't support them if they went ahead with the reboot and Capcom didn't listen. So some fans encouraged others not to buy the game MOSTLY through using Capcom and NInja Theory's horrid PR campaign against them. If Capcom and NInja Theory had handled their PR with the slightest bit of competence, this wouldn't have been an issue.
Everyone knows Metacritic's user score is a joke. That site is full of trolls.
I don't get what you mean by "Highest reviewer score". DmC ranked lower than Devil May Cry 1 and Devil May Cry 3 SE.
Metascore bombing, trolling, flaiming, etc. are merely symptoms of a broader issue at this point. EVERYBODY handled this poorly: Capcom didn't have a plan outside "provoke fans" for the first 2 years and near the end just kinda gave up on marketing their own damn game; Ninja Theory wasn't used to such antagonism and understandably, but still unprofessionally, lashed back at fans; the Devil May Cry fanbase literally tore itself to shreds like a bunch of crazed Orangutans and created such a toxic environment that people just wanted the game to ship and be done and over with; and journalists, professional or not, misconstrued several things that both parties said, thus creating a further rift between the fanbase and the developers. DmC exposed just how much animosity there is between consumers and developers; how poor communication between the two are; and kinda showed that, for all the strides that the video game industry has made, it is still an immature industry. Hell, SEVERAL titles have been showing this recently. This entire fiasco has been an embarrassment for the entire gaming community and unless everyone learns from this experience and grows up, DmC 2/Devil May Cry 5 and other games down the line will create yet another embarrasing fiasco.
They can't be stopped...