It’s quite laughable when someone does this, and even more laughable when someone publicly announces it. A prime example is when people protest against EA by either refusing to buy Battlefront 2 or threaten to quit playing. Lmao ok nobody cares bye we’ll have fun playing without you 👋🏼 You’d swear it damages these companies if you do stop playing anyway..I’m sure the likes of EA couldn’t give 2 shits whether you play or not. They already have thousands of people playing anyway...you are irrelevant.
[b]Edit:[/b] We will never get enough people to boycott ever. No matter what there will always be a huge majority on SWBF2 or the likes of FIFA 18. Yeah sure they’d lose out on a bit of money, but EA aren’t dumb. They’ll realise that the people who are boycotting are most likely doing it against their own will, and actually want to play the game. So all EA has to do is wait and they’ll crawl onto their servers. People seem to think I’m backing EA here. I’m not. I’m just stating the truth. Time is EA’s weapon of defence, and with the gaming industry continuing to grow, it is only going to remain this way.
My cousin is a prime example. He is a huge Star Wars fan but always voices his negative opinion on EA. He claimed he wasn’t getting SWB2 after he heard of things such as pay to win, but guess what? He gave in and bought it eventually. Just like most boycotters do.
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I remember there was somebody who boycotted Shadow Complex because the guy who wrote the tie-in novel was anti-gay.
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If you don’t like something, you don’t buy it. Calling it a boycott is stupid and so is refusing to play a game you already bought is equally stupid.
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Editado por Kone19ps: 11/27/2017 3:15:26 PMNot purchasing is one of the clearest things you can do to voice your opinion. Announcing it is something else entirely. But you're not going to drag me further under your bridge so have a good one. If people give in whatever that's their will power. If you assume anyone who announces it caves then you are just wrong
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Hey if the game does badly enough, I can play it for free on Origin access like they did with mass effect andromeda so I'm not complaining
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Yep that's why sales aren't lower than projected. Stocks haven't dropped. Disney didn't have words with ea and the whole micrtransaction system didn't get pulled from swbf2.
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1 RespuestaSome people are beyond getting through to. No matter how hard you try, it's like talking to a wall. Even with logic, facts, and reasoning. I've seen my fair share of idiots, but people here bring it to a level I never thought I'd see. It's like choosing between pain or joy, and some people choose pain. Why? You be the judge as to whom I'm speaking to. Which side of the argument I'm referring to.
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2 RespuestasI'm more concerned that people were planning on buying the game before the news about about the micro transactions came out.
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1 RespuestaYup, having a large number of people publicly denouncing SWB2 definitely didn't play a role in them temporarily disabling micro-transactions.
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8 RespuestasA single person boycotting? Yeah, that won’t do much. A large amount of people boycotting? Now they’re losing money, and you can bet they care about that.
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Editado por weirdboy99: 11/24/2017 11:30:40 AMLast I heard that retail SWBF2 sold 60% of the amount of retail copies as SWBF1 in the same time. Yes they care, they care a lot, it is hurting sales.
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You are backing EA though, unless you pirated the game? Seriously though, all you will accomplish with these posts is making the majority of #Gaming pissed at you for being a corporate shill (which probably is your intention) , it won't make your precious game any better.
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4 RespuestasThis dude is just seriously butthurt that his beloved Battlefront 2 is getting hated on. Calm down Smeagol, you can still have your precious all to yourself.
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All these people whined about loot boxes in a game they probably wouldn't buy. Yet these same people also ask "what's net neutrality?"
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1 RespuestaYea. The consumers definitely have no impact. That's why EA's stock value dropped, that's why they were reprimanded by Disney. That's why they removed Microtransactions entirely. All because the consumers have no impact. For sure.
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2 RespuestasI wouldn't call not buying a game laughable. If people don't like what devs have done to a game they are free not to buy it, if anyone has a problem with that you are more than welcome to buy the game for those people. As for publicly announcing your intentions, that is laughable. The gaming community isn't united enough to make a big impact, but if we were the industry would be eating out of our paws.
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You claim that people don’t have an effect, but EA’s dropped stock prices and admonishing from Disney says differently.
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Yeah, boycotting only really works when you get a large, organized group to work together. Look at what happened with For Honor. People got annoyed, took to Reddit and organized a boycott, where no one would play until their changes were implemented. I'm pretty sure Ubisoft made several changes before the day the boycott was planned for even came around. Now on the other hand, if you have just a few people boycotting, then the devs/publishers will not notice. Let's say it's a new game at $60. Every time they bring in $60 in micros, one boycotter is made completely irrelevant. EA made roughly $1.3billion in 'extra content' sales last year alone, so you can imagine the number of boycotters it would take to send them a message...
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If one person boycotts, it does nothing. If a million people boycotted, the message would be received loud and clear. Of course that many people would never boycott so we will continue the trend of games sucking more and more because people are eating this crap up like crazy.
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For me it's how it doesn't effect sales much if people just buy micros anyway.
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2 RespuestasThey do care when they lose money. You might think that boycotting does nothing, but if people aren’t buying the game, then that means no excessive amount of money for EA. They planned to sell micro transactions, but once the community boycotted, that means EA’s stocks when down by a lot. Not to mention they lost all copies to sell in Belgium recently, maybe even all of Europe. That will send them into a crisis.
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2 RespuestasYa you’re right. What gaming publisher cares about selling a few hundred thousand copies instead of a few million. Moron. How many times did EA tweak the loot boxes before they outright put them on hold?
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Editado por TreeMan_X: 11/23/2017 6:15:32 PMCorporate shill
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6 RespuestasHope you know when EA, or any game for the matter, doesn't meet a certain sales quota, they suffer quite greatly financially and corporately.
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7 Respuestas[quote]I’m sure the likes of EA couldn’t give 2 shits whether you play or not.[/quote] Yeahlol! It's like, why would a games publisher care whether or not people are playing their games? Lol