Companies You are Currently Boycotting
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I'm in a similar boat. Because our public transport system suck balls, I need to drive to get to work / visit friends.Tears of Blood said:
I'm so very glad you didn't ***** about your petrol prices too because it really makes my teeth itch when Americans do that. Your fuel is dirt cheap compared to most places! Here regular unleaded is approx. £1.15 ($1.82) a litre ("liter" to you)...last time I was in the States (last October) I saw many places selling regular at around $2.75 a GALLON. That said I think European petrol has a higher octane than US gas...could be wrong though.
I don't blame oil companies for high prices though...for every pound I spend at the pump, around 65p of that is tax levied by the government. They tax you for the fuel duty, charge VAT (17.5%) on the fuel AND charge VAT on the fuel duty too! Thank fuck the theiving, robbing, New Labour scum are out of power now! That said, I can't see Cameron bringing fuel prices down any time soon seeing as he's inherited a country with a massive deficit!
Anyway - rant over!
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I don't see any problem. They pay the developers so they can develop exclusive content, or content that will be exclusive for a while. What's wrong with that? They don't HAVE to. It's like, if you're in the music business, and you want to give money to a band to make music for you, but the deal is that the music can only be bought from you and nobody else, that's totally fair. Otherwise you're just giving them money for no reason.mr_pants66 said:
Also, they bought the rights to Halo. I still don't see the problem there. They wanted it, they bought it. They didn't steal it, the other people didn't want it. Nobody would care that they did this if Halo was a flop on the first game.
A friend of mine found grass in a burger. Like grass from a field. Atleast it looked like field grass.GrammarLad said:Found a black hair in my milkshake, so, no more McDonalds for a while
OT: I am boycotting Activision/IW for what they did to the PC version of MW2. So that means I have not played it or pirated it or bought or bought it preowned as all of which defeat the purpose of a boycott especially the purchase of said product.
Em welcome to the Escapist but by defition a boycott is not buying something but making a statement about it because you don't agree with something that is being done by them. So a boycott is a perfectly valid thing just some people forget that it involves not buying it. Also I think with what they are doing regarding the next CoD that the boycott did have an impact. Considering what has happened to IW I think it was much more of an Activision based decision to cut said content myself.Lunatitch said:I don't boycott any company, it's useless... All remember the big "MW2 Boycott"?
Eventually, you will be tempted to purchase some product from said company. And like 88chaz88 said; if you don't like the game (or product) then don't buy that game/product.
Also, Hi
No, I think Capitalism is the only way to go. The only problem is that Wal-Mart beats the system and is altogether just terrible in pretty much every way.Cassita said:
If Wal-mart were a player on a football team, he'd be the guy who breaks the rules when nobody is looking, take steroids from the coach, finds every conceivable way to win no matter what the cost is to the other team or even the other players on his team, and do it all with a big happy, friendly smile on his face that fans love.
No, free-market and Capitalism are great. Plenty of places succeed with it because the people and culture can handle it. However, thanks to the few who are greedy and and evil, you get companies like Wal-Mart which hurt the economy more than they help it.
EDIT: Also, absolute free-market would be a terrible, terrible horrible thing that would be more in alignment with anarchy than capitalism.
first off I have to say well put Arachon, no for my list of companies
1. Walmart-they are unethical, they promote white males over all other demographics(im a white male), they move into small communities and destroy all small businesses in the area.
2 Best Buy- Their customer service sucks, Their business practices are morally and ethically sketchy ie the PS3 firmware upgrade for $30
3 Frito-lay- they are discontinuing the 100% biodegradable bags because consumers are not buying them because the bags are too loud.........herpderp
4.Google and Verison- I dont agree with their steps towards privatizing and making tiered levels of the internet. I don't use the Google search engine and I don't call friends who use Verison phones.
5. Target- I don't approve of their funding of political candidates in the US. Its bullshit flat out. course this just doesn't apply to target but most stores that fund politics in the US as well.
6. Dell Computers- they make crap systems that are designed to break. and you cant overclock them for jack.
that's my list
1. Walmart-they are unethical, they promote white males over all other demographics(im a white male), they move into small communities and destroy all small businesses in the area.
2 Best Buy- Their customer service sucks, Their business practices are morally and ethically sketchy ie the PS3 firmware upgrade for $30
3 Frito-lay- they are discontinuing the 100% biodegradable bags because consumers are not buying them because the bags are too loud.........herpderp
4.Google and Verison- I dont agree with their steps towards privatizing and making tiered levels of the internet. I don't use the Google search engine and I don't call friends who use Verison phones.
5. Target- I don't approve of their funding of political candidates in the US. Its bullshit flat out. course this just doesn't apply to target but most stores that fund politics in the US as well.
6. Dell Computers- they make crap systems that are designed to break. and you cant overclock them for jack.
that's my list
I'm well aware, you're just crazy for thinking that absolute free-market is a good thing.Cassita said:
Who in the world would want absolute free-market? Regulations are a good thing. They keep you from getting ripped off. Not everyone is capable of it themselves, indeed I doubt anyone is capable of avoiding getting ripped off completely.
Either way, Wal-Mart does not even somewhat embody free-market, despite having lower prices than everyone else. Nothing does, anywhere, because it'd never work.
I don't choose to boycott a company for a couple of reasons. One missed sale is not going to affect them. And if they make something I want, I'm not gonna say "no I'm not buying that cause their CEO kicks puppies" or something.
I will boycott a company if I don't want anything of theirs... I haven't bought anything from Apple. I have been meaning to get a massive iPod though. But Mac's suck for what I do with computers, don't care about the iPad/iPhone. Can't afford 160GB iPod right now. So I guess I'm boycotting Apple, but it's nothing personal.
I will boycott a company if I don't want anything of theirs... I haven't bought anything from Apple. I have been meaning to get a massive iPod though. But Mac's suck for what I do with computers, don't care about the iPad/iPhone. Can't afford 160GB iPod right now. So I guess I'm boycotting Apple, but it's nothing personal.
I'm not completely sure how it works in the US, but anyone in Australia living with the misconception that we have a free market is either functionally retarded or willfully ignorant.Cassita said:
That said, protecting small business, to me, makes economic sense. I do not believe ethics to be the reasoning behind protective economic legislation.
BP. Come off it, I hated them before they fked up in the Gulf.
Sears. They ruined my family's credit rating for not using their store credit card.
Other than that, I do my best to weigh products on their own merits (or lack thereof), instead of the people who make it. "Even a blind mouse finds some cheese once in awhile".
Sears. They ruined my family's credit rating for not using their store credit card.
Other than that, I do my best to weigh products on their own merits (or lack thereof), instead of the people who make it. "Even a blind mouse finds some cheese once in awhile".
A boycott is not an apathy toward a company's products, is the absolute refusal to give money to, purchase from, trade with, or otherwise support an entity, such as a person, company, product, or service.brunothepig said:
Eh...only company that I'll actively "boycott" is Wal-Mart. Used to work for them, got fired after a manager baited me and I (foolishly) bit. They've become a very "anti-anything that isn't putting money in our pockets", actively firing people (especially if that person has been with the company for quite a while) for the most frivolous things. Recently, they've been refusing to hire people to replace the vacant spots. They expect their employees to take on more and more work, until they eventually burn out (as I did) in a matter so spectacular that the company has no choice but to terminate - and save themselves whatever wage per diem they've been paying.
Eh, I'm just being petty, I guess. I generally dislike the whole "corporate captialism" and "entitlement by money" thing anyway.
Eh, I'm just being petty, I guess. I generally dislike the whole "corporate captialism" and "entitlement by money" thing anyway.
I am pretty much boycotting the same things as the first post (give or take Apple)
Activision I'll be boycotting until they do something about Kotick. Though that will suck when the new GoldenEye is released...
Walmart I try not to go to because it kills small business and has more recently been buying up huge plots of land (Ie, malls that aren't perfect in small towns), tearing them down, and building huge Walmart structures - putting the small stores that were once in the mall in the outskirts of the parking lot. This kills the local grocers in the area, and plunges the small town further into corporate bullhoggery to feed a multi-billion dollar business. Hate it.
Similarly, while I do not boycott against CocaCola as a whole, I refuse to drink Mr Pibb on principle.
Activision I'll be boycotting until they do something about Kotick. Though that will suck when the new GoldenEye is released...
Walmart I try not to go to because it kills small business and has more recently been buying up huge plots of land (Ie, malls that aren't perfect in small towns), tearing them down, and building huge Walmart structures - putting the small stores that were once in the mall in the outskirts of the parking lot. This kills the local grocers in the area, and plunges the small town further into corporate bullhoggery to feed a multi-billion dollar business. Hate it.
Similarly, while I do not boycott against CocaCola as a whole, I refuse to drink Mr Pibb on principle.
I'm going to say UbiSoft and EA, in terms of gameland. UbiSoft's atrocious new copy protection's pissed me off royally, and even though losing my business won't matter one tiny bloody little bit to 'em, I'm still not buying anything off those bastards until the protection's revoked. I just wish others would too.
EA: Pretty much the same reason, only I feel even more strongly about it. Why? Here's the brief paraphrased summary of their "no more DRM" shoutout for C&C4 (a game which in itself was also a good reason to boycott, given the atrocious quality):
"C&C4 will feature NO DRM! We listen to our customers, and have removed DRM from our games from now on! However, in order to play you must be online 100% of the time, if your internet goes out, you're buggered, if our servers go out, you're buggered. You must also link your CD key to an EA user account in order to bind it to our system for ever and ever and ever.
BUT IT'S NOT DRM!"
Yes it bloody well is you miserable wankers. At least Ubi had the decency to CALL it a DRM.
Oh, and I'd add Activision to the list, but I suppose being an overactive WoW player and a StarCraft II fanatic might disqualify me there. Still bloody hate Kotick though.
(Yes, I know SC2 and WoW are technically not Activision's products, but given ActiBlizzard, Kotick has definitely had his hand in SOME decisions)
EA: Pretty much the same reason, only I feel even more strongly about it. Why? Here's the brief paraphrased summary of their "no more DRM" shoutout for C&C4 (a game which in itself was also a good reason to boycott, given the atrocious quality):
"C&C4 will feature NO DRM! We listen to our customers, and have removed DRM from our games from now on! However, in order to play you must be online 100% of the time, if your internet goes out, you're buggered, if our servers go out, you're buggered. You must also link your CD key to an EA user account in order to bind it to our system for ever and ever and ever.
BUT IT'S NOT DRM!"
Yes it bloody well is you miserable wankers. At least Ubi had the decency to CALL it a DRM.
Oh, and I'd add Activision to the list, but I suppose being an overactive WoW player and a StarCraft II fanatic might disqualify me there. Still bloody hate Kotick though
.(Yes, I know SC2 and WoW are technically not Activision's products, but given ActiBlizzard, Kotick has definitely had his hand in SOME decisions)
Also, a few of the posts above this one give plenty more reasons why they suck.Cassita said:
Perhaps they employ a lot of people, but most of those people could easily find somewhere else to work, and even if they cannot Wal-Mart is not going to have any problem FIRING them, even if they've been working for them for a long time. Indeed, those are usually the people they get rid of first. There's a Wal-Mart right next to where I work (Home Depot, yes I realize that Home Depot has a similar policy in some areas, but I know for a fact that they don't kill small businesses, because we send our customers their way all the time when they can't get what they need at our store.) and I have heard countless stories about the terrible things they've done to their employees.
If you like Wal-Mart you can just say so, but you don't need to accuse me of being a socialist. Sheesh.