When you say internal politics I'm gonna guess that means internal struggles and such within a company, if so think back people to the stuff related to Konami and Kojima, can you honestly say that all that bad PR didn't in some ways sour you to the thought of future purchases of your Pachinko machines from Konami?
For me as long as the internal politics doesn't spill over and damage the games development then I'll mostly try to ignore it, but say for example the things going on in the background of Mighty Number 9 were hard to overlook when the backstage politics were clearly having an impact on the games direction and stiffling the original image that the Kickstarter put forward, going from being the 2016 version of Megaman.... to instead being Megaperson so as to be more PC, that was painful to watch and it did make me just turn off to the concept of buying the game before it launched. (did get it from psn+ a year later, glad I didn't pay for that)
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