John2290 said:
Games are an expensive medium and the player has mpre power than most realize. It might just be a few hundred euro but it's a few hundred these companies don't get to invest back into making terrible industry standards and ruining my favourite hobby. A few dozen people decide not to pay them? That's a few thousands. A few hundred gamers? That's tens of thousands. A few thousands gamers? Hundreds of thousands. Plus eliminating the potential for microtransactions which adds up to more. I don't give care much if others contribute to shitty practices, that's on them but I won't and thankfully have found two pf the games I want used and have them ordered. None of my money goes back into the schemes that rip on hardcore players, kids and their parents and the industry as a whole in the long run. If you asked ten years ago would we be paying full price for the right to buy further content all the while microtransactions (Destiny) often open the real balanced game (Ass oddessy) or forced to buy teo games of three digitally when you purchase phyiscally (spyro). You wouldn't belive it so what do you think it'll be like in 10 more? The only way to stop it is to not support it and they will change based on the money. If gamer outrage and talk of boycotts among a small few gamers can cause a company to drop stock by billions a real boycott can actually have clear effect in the direction the company takes. At least it's a few hundred euro that I don't give to them at the very least. |
I get what you're saying, but blanket boycotts still aren't particularly useful. Be it on a single person basis, or as a mass movement. Reason being simply that all games released by a given publisher aren't treated the same. Not in marketing, business model, investment, design philosophy, etc. As such, if you boycott a company as a whole, without any regard as to what they're actually doing with specific products, you're taking some money out of their pocket, yes, but you're also telling them that some of their projects which maybe would line up much more closely with your desires as a consumer, are not worth your dime. And they won't be looking at from a standpoint of, "oh the reason this underperformed, is because outside of this product, we also do some other things that really rub the consumer the wrong way." No. They'll be looking at it from a standpoint of, "well...this project underachieved, so we need to either scrap this moving forward, or bring it more in line with other projects which are seeing healthy returns."
So assess games on an individual basis, to decided whether they're worth your money. That game, if it's the kind of experience you're looking for, isn't going to be made any better or worse by the name of the publisher on the box. Maybe it's DLC, if there is to be any, will be worse. Maybe the eventual sequel, should it get one, will be worse. Perhaps this publisher has just released a bunch of other games, which you feel are harmful to the industry. That could all well be the case….but that doesn't change whatever that one individual game is that you think looks awesome, and are foregoing only because of the name on the box. Vote with your wallet, always, but don't vote no on B simply because it was released by the same umbrella corp. responsible for A. Vote based on whether or not you think that's a quality product.
