Why do gamer boycotts never work?
Why do gamer boycotts never work?
Elijah White
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Christopher Hill
85%
Eli Jackson
Owen Price
Because boycotts almost never reach the masses
Asher Wright
because there are millions of flies that will eat any type of shit
John Kelly
because people can't fathom the concept that if they didn't buy the game as a form of contestation, they may get a better game next time
they have to fulfill their consumer habit and the dopamine rush from spending money
Julian Jones
because the majority of people in the world consume media without remotely trying to inform themselves on it
I literally knew people who bought sword and shield because it carried the pokemon name alone
i mean fuck man, you know the amount of people who upgrade their phone to the next version whenever it comes out when theres next to no difference in how they use it, just to show they have the latest and greatest?
Charles Clark
They don't work for other things like movies or tv shows if they're big enough with the normie crowd who doesn't pay attention to new releases as closely as die-hard hobbyists. Just try to boycott Disney for trying too hard to become a monopoly and ruining franchises, good luck because the majority just pays to watch their movies and TV shows and doesn't care beyond that. Boycotting a niche game franchise could work though
Kayden Hill
Because most people don't know or care about whatever the controversy is that time and just buy the stuff they find attractive.
Aaron Moore
Completely normal
> GTA V: -83%
> Dark Souls 3: -80%
> Fallout 4: -80%
> Uncharted 4: A Thief's End: -78%
> Halo 5: Guardians: -78%
> Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: -78%
Wyatt Ross
Rockstar re-enabled openIV after negative review bombing on steam
Elijah Hughes
Someone deciding not to buy a game is not a boycott
Michael Bell
Normies don't care about dexit or trannies
Evan Sanchez
or maybe, just maybe, people aren't infantile enough to let minor nitpicks ruin their entire perception of the product to impress a couple losers on the internet? it's like you fucks don't even like videogames
William Fisher
Because Zig Forums is a VERY vocal minority
Luis Barnes
Because both games were actually good
Chase Harris
Because gamer 'boycotts' are just childish tantrums with no substance or staying power.
Isaac Evans
have you ever played pokemon
Lincoln Cruz
Who is the vocal majority? Reddit? Twitter? Resetera? All 3 of these communities absolutely and universally hate the game
Elijah Foster
is that tlou 2 pic unedited? I thought the big nose was an exaggerated meme but holy shit that shnoz is huge
Jonathan Wood
Because most people are retards and NPC's; dont know how to be critical with the things they buy or don't learn from the experiences they have.
Companies are also retarded, because if they made good games, not only retards would buy them (because they don't think and buy everything), but as a bonus, people who wants good games would give them money aswell.
And good games dont cost more money usually, most of the times is sorting assets in a non retarded way and having a producer in the game that isn't brainless.
Luis Powell
It is also sharper than the original face model's.
Robert Hughes
Everyone everywhere got out-of-context spoilers, not just here
Josiah Robinson
they dont waste their time with nerdy shit like that. They played tlou love it and bought the sequel when marketing told them that a sequel was coming.
Carson Clark
What out of context? The entire fucking games cutscenes got leaked lol
Benjamin Murphy
whats supposed to be wrong about the top picture
Mason Adams
Zig Forums and facebook/twitter zoomers don't make up the audience that developers are going for. millennials have money and are adults so your petty grievances mean literally nothing lol
Ayden Thompson
Are you implying that tlou2 is a financial success?
That game was in development hell for 7 years, rebooted multiple times, had over 400 devs working on it all the time, marketing and sony cut and it still sold barely over four million units.
It will take several years for it to break even.
Hunter Howard
b-b-but Troy Baker told me it shouldn't matter because ND have a lot of awards under their belt.
Luis Smith
Play Soul Silver, play Sword, and tell me again that they have the same quality and love in them.
You can even see the decline objectively, with the changes of producers and directors with the games, the death of Iwata, the changes with the mobile games, etc etc.
At this moment is just swimming countercurrent, because you have to be the center of attention and be "woke" because you have an opinion different of everyone else. Stop it.
Nathan Harris
And most people just got shitty word-of-mouth spoilers
Eli Bennett
Because only a minority boycott.
Bentley Richardson
because you're trying to boycott something that's too popular and ingrained in people's lives. Boycotting Pokemon and TLOU, some of the most well received and popular games of recent is akin to boycotting Coke or Domino's Pizza
Sebastian Taylor
tlos2 had double the budget of dead space 3
Evan Smith
"voting with your wallet" is a shit meme that has never worked ever
Connor Morgan
Soul Silver is a remake using the diamond/pearl engine. Nostalgia masks it's laziness
Cooper Gonzalez
Because most of the time it's just a very loud minority that's chimping out
Elijah Cruz
Pretty simple. It's just a very loud, small group of people that seem like a large group calling for boycotts which inevitably fail when the majority literally don't give a fuck about the babies screaming in the corner.
Landon Taylor
It depends on the industry. Nothing to do with video games but people voting with their wallets really fucked up Kat von D after she said she wouldn't vaccinate her baby son and her reputation will never recover from that so she sold her shares of the company to the other shareholders.
James Ross
Because gaming as a hobby has been co opted by trannies, because it's honestly the easiest hobby to get into. The gaming community as a whole is constituted of literal trannies and normies, and trannies and normies are contrarians, being part of a "revolution" — that is, being contrarian to common beliefs and common sense — provides then the adrenaline rush of of belonging to a group which is — supposedly — fighting for an ideal; not being part of the "system". That's why they'll fight to defend the most absurd practices and concepts; because these concepts defy common sense.
Austin Diaz
>record success
>sold barely 4million copies (With 85% dips every single week afterwards)
>dead space 3 had to sell 5million to survive on a 250mil budget
>meanwhile tlos2 couldnt even sell 5million on a 500mil budget
>record success
Its jewish nature to lie through their teeth to save face
Ryan Taylor
cause the average consumer is a fucking retard
Juan Bailey
>instant gratification
>usually hard to take people's word on games without playing it yourself
>AAA games take minimum 3 years to make now. Who knows if I'll live to see the next installment. Might as well enjoy myself.
Ian Mitchell
This. The game sold well by conventional standards, but they expected it to do prime COD numbers for some reason. Fittingly, they dumped so much money into it that it probably needed twice as much as what it earned. Nevermind that it's overstocked to hell and physical retailers are already marking it doen to get rid of it.
It didn't sell "0" copies, but all the bad press definitely hurt it, and hurt it significantly.
There'll be rereleases and definitive editions pissed out next year to try and break even by exploiting a handful of idiots, but there won't be a third game and I'd be surprised if Sony ever funded another ND game.