God of War Ragnarok Steam reviews are ‘mixed’ right now, as players criticize the PC version due to account linking, just like Helldivers 2. - eviltoast
  • ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “boycotts don’t work” lmao

    The gaming community is incapable of executing an effective boycott because they cannot go 5 minutes without the thing they like. So they’ll pre-order garbage, never learn their lesson, and complain the whole time while paying a premium, instead of exercising restraint and playing something else - like one of their 4,000 unplayed games in their bought library.

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      2 months ago

      Boycotts only work when the group boycotting is large enough to impact the bottom line.

      Most gamers just don’t care enough about accounts and launchers to boycott a game or company. They just want to come home from work and play games.

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        It’s less about most gamers caring and more about people failing to advertise the boycott and act effectively. I just think the gaming community is much larger than people realize and even if everyone in a subreddit about the game agrees to boycott it, that’s nothing compared to the number of people who play that game and aren’t in the subreddit and don’t know to boycott.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, they left off the rest of that lesson, which is “boycotts don’t work if you don’t fucking do them”. Boycotts work when they happen, and it’s still a good thing to personally boycott a game you feel isn’t up to your standards even if the broader community isn’t, but it’s been consistently shown nonetheless that gamers are horrible at wide-scale boycotts.

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        What do you think I meant by people won’t refrain from buying. People not buying products they weren’t going to buy anyways isn’t a boycott. Do you trust the gaming community to actually not buy something they want?

        People are misunderstanding that boycotts won’t work in this case means a boycott isn’t going to happen.

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      If people don’t refrain from buying then boycotts won’t work. Gaming community is more effective at creating noise than not buying a product they want.

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      2 months ago

      The gaming community is incapable of executing an effective boycott

      If that’s the case, then explain exactly why Sony backed off of the account requirement for Helldivers 2

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          2 months ago

          So, literally the same strategy that gamers are going for here. And you said their methods never work, yet here we are with an example of it working

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            2 months ago

            And you said their methods never work

            Where? You need to read more carefully, it’s causing you to write nonsense.