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Forums - Gaming - Are you a sheep (mindless buyer)?

 

Do you buy shit products from lazy devs?

Yes, in droves, I'm a mindless sheep 31 20.39%
 
No, I'm a noble and smart owl 99 65.13%
 
I'm a rat that lend ever... 8 5.26%
 
I'm a cockroach pirate t... 14 9.21%
 
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DonFerrari on 13 November 2014
binary solo said:
DonFerrari said:

Every time a game like Parity or BF4 or even DC or Halo:MCC comes out with a shitload of glitches we promisse to boycott it and never again buy from that developer, yet we go there and buy the shitgame FW and preorder the sequel but keep complaining about how shit and greed the dev is.

 

Do you keep far from shit products or you are a sheep buying in droves?

 

Ps: this looks like politics, we protest like lions and vote like asses.

Add TES and Fallout to that list I think.

I don't think I'm a sheep. Pretty sure I dislike all of the most well known franchises that churn out buggy game after buggy broken game.

Yep could add them. I can't imagine why keep supporting bad pratices... buy some weeks after launch when bugs are corrected is kinda ok. But allow a company to yearly launch shit and buy it in droves is kinda strange.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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DonFerrari on 13 November 2014
Pemalite said:

I've boycotted all EA and Ubisoft games successfully for years, until they actually start making good games and stop trying to price gauge consumers.

Halo though... Despite the crap match making, terminals not working, crashes, skipping levels, achievements not unlocking, DLC not able to be redeemed, the 20 hour install time, variable framerates which proves to me that consoles are become more inconvenient than PC Gaming.

However I just can't give that one franchise up, I will continue to buy every release, I need an excuse to use my Xbox One more than a couple times a year, the sad part is, console gamers have more of that to look forward towards, this gen.


Halo is great game that unfortunately had some bugs that were concerning a part of the game (somewhat kinda DC) it isn't a broken a game.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 13 November 2014
naruball said:
Well, OP. I get what you're saying and I agree with you, but when was the last time you saw someone admitting that they're stupid, crazy, or on this case sheep? No one wants to see themselves as anything other than intelligent and better than the rest or at least better than the average.

And I agree with you. Complaining about every COD, AC, etc only to buy the next one day one and then say I can't believe this one sucks too, is sheep mentality. But I guess people can't control their urges and they have to have what they think they want RIGHT NOW.

Anyway, as for me, I stick to my word. If I boycott something (e.g. a magazine the editor of which made a homophobic comment), there is no way I'm going back no matter how much I used to love reading it. For me principles are more important than having some fun with a game, song, etc.

Then again, I hardly ever boycott anything because there's never a reason to when it comes to my favourite games. They usually have some or in some cases a lot of technical issues, but at the end of the day, I'd rather put up with them than not play a great game at all. The Walking Dead is a prime example. It plays terribly on the vita ( I died one too many time because the game was still loading when m zombie was attacking me- and yes its extremely frustrating) but it's such a good game that I'm definitely buying the second season when it's cheaper (and the Wolf Among us).


You got the OP, the other guy didn't.

I'm not criticizing anyone for any game they buy (even If I DON'T LIKE or think it's broken). Just about the mentality of complaining to death but keep supporting the pratice. If they don't mind the bugs and glitches and don't complain about then, ok buy as many as wanted. But to preorder yearly and keep complaining the game is shitty and hoping company will do better the next time they preorder is silly.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Uabit on 13 November 2014

Yes ma'am.



2008ProchargedGT on 13 November 2014
Wright said:

"We promisse to boycott it and never again buy from that developer"? Maybe that's your case. Not mine.

 

I still purchase Capcom games because I think they make awesome games, but a lot of people enjoy calling Capcom Crapcom.

 

Beauty is ipn the eye of the Beholder.

So if I call them Crapcom I have crap in my eye?



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JazzB1987 on 13 November 2014

I boycott most games by now. If I buy them then for like $5 on steam. Or preowned.

There is just a handful of games left that I buy within the first months/full price.

Thanks to all the crap that happened in the last generation normal games are worth like 15 bucks to me. But since I never buy stuff for the normal price I wait for price drops that go way below 15.

If a game gets exclusive content that has nothing to do with hardware specific features (e.g Kinect/WiiU Gamepad) but is purely exclusive because of $$$ (Ubi on Sony) reasons I boycott that game on all platforms.

If a game gets DLC announced before launch or a few months after launch I boycott that game.

If a game has insufficient framerates I boycott that game (20fps would be okay for a turnbased game but every game that has fast gameplay/action that drops to sub 30 gets boycotted)

Bug infested games get boycotted

Everything that requires a fee gets boycotted (online service or mmorpg etc)

Every game with microtransactions gets boycotted

Every game that is ONLINE ONLY gets boycotted.

If a game gets devalued by its own dev/publisher (fast price drops) I dont buy its successor unless it hit sub 10 price tag.

If a game gets DLC I wait for GOTY.


I still have way to many games   its indeed so many that I have no idea where to start. My backlog is huge.



sonicfan1373 on 13 November 2014

My boycotts over a company are very informal because I evaluate buying a game on a case by case basis. If a company that has disappointed me in the past really surprises me with a good product then I will consider purchasing that product. I usually also do not buy into the annual "AAA game" thing (I usually buy one or two from the franchises I enjoy the most and stick with them for the entire gen) or the games that advertise their budget more than the gameplay (I know that much of that budget is going to go to huge marketing campaigns to justify the huge financial risk, and I hypothesize the campaigns and hype will most likely cause reviewers to overrate the game). Thus, I do not consider myself a sheep, but there are probably factors that I am not aware of or choose to ignore affecting my purchasing behaviour; so I might be a sheep.



Wright on 13 November 2014
2008ProchargedGT said:

So if I call them Crapcom I have crap in my eye?


Nah, it'll probably means that Capcom is crap.



Intrinsic on 13 November 2014

Only time i made this mistake this gen was with BF4. But thats cause for some strange reason none of the reviewers talked about all the issues the game had. With Dc i didn't care cause I am primarily an offline gamer. Other than that, no; I never buy glitchy or substandard products.

And I feel gamers have no one but themselves to blame for all the crap publishers send our way. Cause trust me, if the game media can be remotely honest, and in their reviews point out how buggy a game is or how shameless their microtransactions tactics are then in turn games collectively refuse to buy that game and it goes on to sell only 300-500k copies.

Trust me, publishers the world over will learn from that and not do shit like that anymore. Its that simple. They keep on doing it, cause we keep letting them get away with it. Once upon a time, there was an unsaid agreement between publisher and consumer where they knew they had to do something good to earn our money. Now, its like they are doing us a favour collecting our money. After that DLC crap capcom pulled where the DLC was already on the disc, I have never bought any capcom product again.

Its like publishers go "hey, give me $60 so I can screw you over" and we gamers go "ok sounds good, here have some more and give me some of that DLC and stuff"



NintendoPie on 13 November 2014

My buying habits are none. I rarely buy games unless they intrigue me enough because I truthfully am too lazy to pre-order or go out and buy a game that I feel will be less than at least good.

So... uh... you can decide. (Although I do buy Nintendo HW be it Wii U bad or DS amazing.)