Are you boycotting activision

[Shepard's Shadow]

No. Should I be? They don't really make games I like. I'm not boycotting them, I'm just not buying their games. If they made a game I'd liked, I'd buy without a second thought.

 

[MrGalactus]

I am. I've been a good boy, too, I didn't buy Blood Stone. Someone really needs to take the James Bond licence out of Activision's hands.

 

[Sebenko]

I suppose I am, by virtue of not wanting to buy any of their games.

 

[hutchy27]

Well I not buying anymore Call of Duty's but that's because I don't like them and they fail to impress me every time.

 

[hazabaza1]

I will never boycott a company. If they have a game I want, I'll get it. Simple as that.

 

[Continuity]

Why should I be boycotting Activision? If they have a game I don't want to buy I don't buy it, the same with all other publishers.

I'll boycott Activision when they stop making games I enjoy, thankyou very much.

I like Call Of Duty.

I will never boycott a company. If they have a game I want, I'll get it. Simple as that.

I buy games I want to buy. I've been inadvertently (mostly)boycotting activision for a while.

No. Should I be? They don't really make games I like. I'm not boycotting them, I'm just not buying their games. If they made a game I'd liked, I'd buy without a second thought.

Why the heck would I boycott them? Ya, I don't like Bobby Kotick or a lot of the things they do, but they provide me with decent games and therefore I'm going to continue to buy their games.

What?? No. If there is a good game I want, then I will buy it. Intentionally withholding products you want from yourself doesn't seem like a very good plan...

I'd like to say that I'd boycott Activision for their actions, but I'm willing to admit now that if they publish a game that I really want I'd cave and buy it.

I could really care less what Activision does. If a game is awesome Im buying it. If a game doesn't look like it will shape up be a 9/10 in my books Im not buying it. the publisher and/or developer of a game is honestly the last thing i care about when it comes to my purchasing choices.

And this sums up why gamers have no power over the games industry... we're only driven by one thing, and that's what we want to play. Organising a gamer boycott of a popular title would be like trying to get water to run up hill.
Bottom line, gamers are arse-hats who can't see long term consequences past the length of their nose, they are also entitled dicks (just to be clear, I include myself in this summation).

P.S. sorry if your ass-hattery isn't quoted above but I got tired of quoting, the above is just from two pages of this thread

 

[Kenko]

I'm not exactly boycotting it, I just don't buy their games because I'm rarely interested in their games. I'm more of a Square Enix guy myself when it comes to publishers.

Used to like both of these. Activision and Square Enix. Now they just release garbage. So im pretty much avoiding both of their games. With the excemption of Deus Ex.

 

[Calcium]

Why should I be boycotting Activision? If they have a game I don't want to buy I don't buy it, the same with all other publishers.

And this sums up why gamers have no power over the games industry... we're only driven by one thing, and that's what we want to play. Organising a gamer boycott of a popular title would be like trying to get water to run up hill.
Bottom line, gamers are arse-hats who can't see long term consequences past the length of their nose, they are also entitled dicks.

I don't see how boycotting existing titles would do much. They'd save money from being able to run less servers surely.

I also fail to see how being driven by what we want to play is a bad motivator. I thought the problem was that there are so many people who are driven by publicity and the herd mentality of "I'm getting the new CoD cause everyone else is."

I didn't want Black Ops so I didn't buy it. I was motivated by what I wanted not what a crowd said. Perhaps if people were motivated by what they wanted instead of what they're told they want Activision would have to make better decisions.

 

[Strife17O7]

I'm a rather wary of them lately...though not yet aggravated..much. Regarding B. Kotick..I'm not particularly well versed in his own brand of douchebaggery, but the mention of his name does strangely cause the skin to crawl.../: I'm mostly just worried about what they might do to Bungie...

Activision's kindof become what I used to think more of EA until the success of Mass Effect 2 and Dead Space & such...

On that note...I am admittedly nervous about ME3...It feels like there's a lot that could go wrong there.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

In everything save for Blizzard titles (Fucking Diablo III, can't boycott them completely on that merit alone), yes.

EA has my money currently, until further notice (Dragon Age 2, Crysis 2, SWTOR, Mass Effect, etc). Though I don't like some of their marketing fiasco's, I do enjoy the games that come from their subsidiaries.

 

[Continuity]

I don't see how boycotting existing titles would do much. They'd save money from being able to run less servers surely.

A proper boycott would put Activision out of business inside 2 years, and send a very clear warning message to the games industry as a whole. Who wants to go with a publisher who is under boycott and 90% of your games wont sell?

I also fail to see how being driven by what we want to play is a bad motivator. I thought the problem was that there are so many people who are driven by publicity and the herd mentality of "I'm getting the new CoD cause everyone else is."

Thats the same thing, my point is we shouldn't just be driven by what we want to play, for whatever reason we want to play it, we should also look at the ethics and practices of the companies involved... otherwise we're just giving them free licence to arse rape us with a big fat knife.

 

[Strife17O7]

If It isn't Gran Turismo, fly super-awesome aircraft, or drive really fast, I don't care who makes it. Anyone heard the latest on Ace Combat 7?

Ace Combat.....Baffling to me how an arcade flier such as that could possibly regurgitate itself as many as 7 times... If it's not realism, it's an insult to the aircraft and any who have ever flown them.

But that's my opinion and rather OT...on-topic however, I feel that it's a somewhat ignorant statement. Not entirely, mind you....if Ace Combat happens to be sh*t you are really into...by all means, pay the rich corporation more money for their excrement. Your funds, not mine.

 

[Calcium]

I don't see how boycotting existing titles would do much. They'd save money from being able to run less servers surely.

A proper boycott would put Activision out of business inside 2 years, and send a very clear warning message to the games industry as a whole. Who wants to go with a publisher who is under boycott and 90% of your games wont sell?

You want to bring Activion down? ... Seriously? Naturally this would cripple the developers owned/funded by Activision. I assume that the reason to boycott them is because of their treatment to developers, so I really can't agree.

I also fail to see how being driven by what we want to play is a bad motivator. I thought the problem was that there are so many people who are driven by publicity and the herd mentality of "I'm getting the new CoD cause everyone else is."

Thats the same thing, my point is we shouldn't just be driven by what we want to play, for whatever reason we want to play it, we should also look at the ethics and practices of the companies involved... otherwise we're just giving them free licence to arse rape us with a big fat knife.

It's not the same thing. Picking up a game because you admire it's quality and picking up a game because it's popular are too different things. A developer that knows their game will sell by word-of-mouth can release the same game over and over again. A developer that doesn't have this to rely on needs to take extra care in releasing a game that appeals. Activision is a publicity engine for taking games and giving them selling power through the popular side. If people were less fickle and bought games on quality alone, then Activision would have to work with it's developers to encourage quality in order to sell.

Activision's ethics are business ethics used by many in the industry. They're not "evil" or of the standard employed by more morally questionable companies like Nestle.

 

[Continuity]

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look, I think you're maybe misinterpreting the nature of my post. I'm not advocating a boycott but just explaining why it would never work (gamers are ass-hats), I personally do not boycott specific publishers or developers (though I may avoid buying specific games).

My main point is, I guess, that as much as we may lament bullshit in the industry there is nothing we can do about it because we have no power.

 

[CoL0sS]

Hmmmm now that you mention it, I guess I do. It has less to do with them being considered "evil" and more with the fact their last few games games sucked.

 

[Specula]

Besides Modern Warfare 2, the last Activision game I purchased was... Mechwarrior 2 I believe, if any of you can remember back that far.

I suppose I semi-boycott them by virtue of being uninterested in their products. Blizzard now falls under the same roof and while I used to be an avid fan of Blizzard games, I can't help but feel they have completely sold out and pissed on all their fans Metallica style. So yeah, I am now uninterested completely in what Activision-Blizzard has to offer.

 

[Papadam]

I hate Activision because they lack any creativity and only pump out sequels..

They even ruined BLizzard, one of the best devs in gaming. Now they are just doing remakes of their own classics with shiny cartoony graphics (SC2 and D3)

When was the last time Blizzard did something creative?

 

[googleback]

Not really, I just haven't been interested in any of their games lately. I might as well then haha

 

[Akihiko]

I suppose I am somewhat boycotting their games. But I have to admit, I don't like their games to begin with, so it isn't hard for me to just not buy any. True crime might have been the only exception, but they decided to throw away that one.

 

[notyouraveragejoe]

I may have been accidentally boycotting them by not buying their games but its not something I've done conciously. Lemme just check (googles activision recent games releases)...Last Activision games I bought were Prototype and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. Thats not to say I don't want to...I've been eying the new Transformers game for a while now...