Quiotu said:
There really is an easy way to do this, though it's already been said many times before. Simply let publishers know with your wallet what you'll accept and not accept. I buy EA games when they don't screw me over. I bought ME3 used, but I bought SSX new... because one had DLC practices I liked and the other didn't. I don't buy Ubisoft games on the PC period. I haven't bought a Final Fantasy game since 12, but I bought Sleeping Dogs and Deus Ex: HR because those were good games that Squeenix had other developers make. Capcom is virtually dead to me, but I'll buy Okami HD just so they know that's the last thing decent they published. And I haven't bought anything from Sega since Valkyria Chronicles since they've shown they can't make and keep an IP to save their life save perhaps Total War, and a dev they own makes that instead.
Again, never say you'll boycot... because hardly anyone ever perseveres enough to stick to it. Buy what's good, buy what's fair, and let everything else fester as a signal to all publishers concerning what you're willing to put up with.
"Voting with your wallet" will never accomplish anything. Why? It's because for every 1 person that wises up and stops buying from a company, they're replaced by 10 more idiots that will buy anything without bothering to see if they should just coming into some disposable income *COUGHcausalsCOUGHandCOUGHblindfanboysCOUGH*. The video game industry is so prevalent at this point that they can just screw everybody over as much as they want and there's nothing anybody can do about it.
MortisLegio said:
I honestly don't understand why companies want to nickle and dime their customers. All it does is make the customer not like you and make it so they are less likely to buy the next game. If it's straight up greed, then wouldn't it make more sense to keep your customers as happy as possible and earn their loyalty? I just don't get it. Are companies so short sighted that they no longer care?
As I said above, video game companies are so powerful, so rich, and have an endless stream of
morons customers to lead like lambs to the slaughter that they don't need to give a rat's ass about being fair to their
walking moneybags customers. They not only
blatantly ripoff nickle and dime their
victims customers, but they flaunt the fact that they cheat their
lemmings customers at every turn. Other industries also rip off their customers constantly, but they at least TRY to hide the fact that they're doing it. You're right though Mortis, the video game industry somehow gets a free pass to rip off their customers all the time, and they actually profit from it, while in any other industry, similar practices would get the company that did it to die out, quickly.