Lous1210 said:
I understand what you're saying entirely, however the company isn't going to lose any sleep over 1 purchase, or even just a few. As I said, it's perfectly reasonable to not purchase a game due to a lacking in the merit of the game itself, but viewing the business dealings of any number of companies, regardless of how scummy they may be, as a personal attack of some sort, is something I would take with a few grains of salt. EA's monopoly on their various sports licenses, while it clearly pissed off more than a few people (you and I just to name two) must have proven to be more lucrative than harmful to the company in the long run, otherwise they would've stopped doing it. The point i'm trying to make is that boycotts don't hurt the Triple-A industries, and you may very well be missing out on a game you could have thoroughly enjoyed due to a grudge you held against a given company. I can understand the need to protest against something you view as unjust, but in the long run you may only be hurting yourself.
I understand what you're saying as well, and i do appreciate your more reasoning approach opposed to comments just saying: That's just stupid.
However I took a lil offense on labeling boycott against developers/publishers as childish in general.
That's just counterproductive even if it does have very little to no impact at all on triple-A industries.
Because at least they're aware of it...even if they couldn't care less...
but EA did loose a chunk of their Sports-Game monopoly(nba entirely- fifa to some extend)
and if there was an uproar of some sort...maybe their taking some of these things into consideration.
Because if they felt like there wouldn't even be minor consequences from the consumer....
sky's the limit on screwing everbody (like project Ten dollar is NOTHING compared to what I could think of off the top of my head what they Could do if they felt like there are no consequences from the consumer-side whatsoever)
Or in the PES/german bundesliga example...The DFB(german soccer association) received quite a load of hate for their agreement with EA...not that it really matters now...
but maybe...just maybe they take that into account in some way as well before signing such deals in the future.
And if that just adds up to 0,000000000000001% a chance of changing at least the direction they're going...at least it's something
And in the case of FIFA they now at least really try to improve it gameplay-wise
I know i'm not making the best point with those examples but putting boycott in general as childish (even only within the gaming industry)...it's just not helping anybody
That being said...boycott is thrown out there way to easily-
If they can't take a single Game-Boycott seriously - how could they take a whole Label-boycott serious....
but that doesn't mean that the idea itself is entirely in vain in principle
as for me....it's EA...so i don't miss out on anything
(although i'm lucky they lost against 2k with NBA-games...not having those...would hurt yeah-
but EA still puts out mostly mediocre to ok-games....so i'm really not missing out on much)