you’ll give up eventually so why not...

Just saying, the poll is giving you the middle finger.

You should never boycott. Play whats good to you. Buisness practices will always be buisness practices. Lifes too short to worry about that kind of stuff.

Darksiders III is coming... too soon? It's been 6 years since Darksiders II xD

I'm definately gonna get Spyro, next year.

This. And I would argue that Darksiders is unique enough to not be more of the same.

oh and yeah. Second hand games if you dont want to support them.

If you see a game you want to play, buy the game. Who cares who published it? You are only hurting yourself more than your single purchase will ever hurt them.

Imho Ubisoft has long redeemed themselves.

Can’t share your resentment about Darksiders 3.. Other than it somehow looks uninspired and is not developed by the same team.

In general I’d differentiate more on a game by game basis. If it contains intrusive MTXs, don’t buy, but I see no reason to not buy Sekiro, just because it’s published by Activision.

I agree. I support the idea of boycott. But if you call it boycott and you end up working around it to get the publisher's games, it doesn't feel right in my opinion. It feels a bit like communists going to McDonnald's ordering their food on iPhones. Or communist dictators that hate the West but they end up travelling to an European hospital to get a treatment when they need some capitalist/western fix.

Sure, you can boycott EA and not buy their games, but why? In many cases the company you are boycotting is worlds apart from the developers who actually made the game. Also, you are going to miss out on playing great games. Gaming corporations are all money-hungry and prone to the same dirty tactics. This is because a corporation is not a person, and as such, does not have dignity. Any illusion of dignity is strategically in place to gain favor from gamers.

There was a time when I would consider not buying a game because of these things, but not anymore. It's impossible to know for certain how crooked these companies are because the reports we hear about them may be biased or exaggerated. And for those that *are* in good standing, there may be devious things they are getting away with that we don't know about yet.

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.