Have any of you actually boycotted a video game company?
Every time /v/ boycotts a game, they end up buying it anyway, so despite all the hate for many big companies I doubt most of /v/ would be able to boycott a company. I know YB boycotted Sega and continues to do so.
>>318769148
>YB
You mean TB?
ea games since after bfbc2 and still to this day.
A lot of the games I boycott are games I'd never play anyway (Mighty No. 9, Naughty Dog games, 343's Halo games).
I want to boycott the new Xenoblade because of the censorship, but I don't know if I can hold out.
I haven't bought an ea game since mirrors edge
>>318769148
Nah
Couldn't care less. Ultimately our opinions have no value whatsoever, so there's never a reason to make a fuzz over anything.
I have to avoid games exclusive to Origin because the service is fucking garbage though.
Only recently took Nintendo off my boycott list
I have been actively boycotting gearbox since the release of Alien: Colonial Marines though. In a fair world, Randy Pitchford would be sent to an electric chair
>>318769148
No, people don't care about the real issues. That's why feminism is so huge.
>>318769148
Nintendo.
>>318769148
Yep. I don't buy Electronic Arts games if I can help it. There have been times when I didn't see the EA tag on it and bought it, but otherwise if I do I go get something else instead.
>>318769148
Nintendo after they went super anti consumer with their horrendous DLC practices.
To think this company once said they prided themselves in giving a customer the full experience.
>>318769148
I haven't bought an EA or Ubisoft game in a good few years. But I'm not actively boycotting them. They just keep releasing the same garbage.
Not a company, but I still have not bought Mass Effect 3 for many reasons
I still haven't bought or played Left 4 Dead 2
I just don't buy shit I don't agree with and pirate companies who offend me as a consumer. No expectations that I'll change anything.
No amiibo and no DLC jewery for me. First day or even pre-order DLC? I'm going to pirate it, not giving it any money.
I usually only boycott certain products. I haven't bought an Activision game in years now and I tend to stay away from EA now that they secluded themselves on that horror story called origin.
>>318769994
Pretty much this. Haven't bought anything from EA in years. Might consider it if they released something I wanted though.
No because I'm not a nu-fag memer.
>>318769148
Boycotting Blizzard and EA since ... I don't really remember.
5 Years maybe?
I boycott sony when I heard they removed backwards compatability and Other-OS from PS3. That was just when I was through with their shit and killed my desire to own the system.
Still going strong and PSP is the last Sony product I've bought
Haven't bought NISA games in awhile over their recent bullshit
Might support Disgaea PC, but that is only if I know it won't blow up my machine, and if they don't piss me off with another censored criminal girls release
>>318770098
>>318770329
Go away, Goldstein
>>318769539
I hadnt bought an ea game since need for speed underground, but i caved in for Ssx2012 still aside from that im doing great
Valve. Nintendo. Sony. Microsoft.
>>318770397
Nah man. Next time just say that you pirate because you're too cheap to pay for games. It's okay, half of the site live in third world countries after all.
>>318769148
i boycotted beth by pirating and not buying
i will continue to habitually pirate all AAA titles till they give demos again
>>318769148
A boycott is only effective if it's large and organized and you have to people who can enforce it. A few people from /v/ "boycotting" doesn't do shit.
Boycotting games is nothing more than a handful of fagots posting the same shit over and over so you actually think its more than just 10 fagots.
>>318770505
But I'm sure companies will listen to newly registered twitter accounts with anime faces and the 100 people on 4chan.
Nintendo, EA & Ubisoft. EA hasnt seen my money since Dead Space 3 and ubi/Nintendo haven't seen it in over 10.
>>318770505
Obviously - and even then sometimes it's not enough.
Sometimes you just do it as a matter of principles anyway.
Ubisoft and EA basically.
>>318769194
he means cancer biscuit
I honestly don't give a shit about Internet drama.
>>318770479
Sure thing, Goldstein
don't know if this counts but after ME3 I dropped bioware and never looked back.
I tell myself I'm boycotting EA but really they just haven't made a good game since dead space 2.
I don't buy any nintendo games translated by treehouse
I haven't bought a Bethesda game since fallout 4
EA after Sims 4
Bethesda after Fallout 4
>>318770829
Stop supporting jews and calling people "fedoras" for being good consumers
>>318769148
i don't buy games that i don't like
Haven't bought an EA game in almost forever
(Most of my boxed games are EA games, I have the complete The Sims 2 + C&C3)
>>318770503
That's not boycotting, that's throwing a fit ofver things not being free, you child.
>>318769148
I haven't bought an EA game in 6 years. Don't think I've played them either. I outright refuse to play or even purchase the COD series any longer.
>>318771016
So, just like devs?
>>318770920
If it isn't worth your money, it isn't worth your time.
I simply don't buy their games, smartass.
SEGA and TWI
>>318769148
Haven't bought any Action games since they removed dedicated servers from MW2. Haven't bought any EA games since they killed pandemic. It helps that they've released nothing remotely interesting since I stopped buying from them.
>>318769148
Yes.
Right now, I'm boycotting GameStop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhM1rDTwvY8
You can join me.
>>318769978
>With their horrendous DLC practices
Anon, why are you posting on a video game board when you just admitted you play zero video games?
>>318769148
>Have any of you actually boycotted a video game company?
EA hasn't gotten a dime of my money since they ruined pic related.
>>318769148
I'm boycotting Bioware after they went full sjw. Plus their horrible animations, complete lack of professional mocap, and other shit that aggravates me.
>>318769148
I haven't bought an EA game since spore. I don't think I'm hurting them or consider it a statement. I just know it'll be shit and full of micro jewactions no matter how much hype and how good the trailers look.
I make it a point to pirate and immediately delete games when i wish to express disapproval. Not making a purchase can be interpreted in many ways, like not being aware of the game's release, but piracy only gives one connotation: your game is not worth the money.
Not as efficient and gives the mistaken impression that i wanted to play the game, but it's he best insult i have as a consumer.
>>318771016
no, it's the smart option because they no longer supply demos
i pirate to see if I like the gameplay enough to warrant a purchase
this is the non-retarded course of action, which i will follow until they start giving demos again
calm down anon you're hysterical
>>318771061
you're lowering yourself to those levels?
I've been on a Nintendo boycott ever since I got burned by the Gamecube.
I feel like I havent missed a thing since Nintendo just keeps churning out the same five games over and over.
I've been boycotting EA Since Mass Effect 3 (which I pirated). So I guess I haven't bought anything from them since BF3. Not that it's been hard, I haven't even been tempted by anything EA has made in years.
>>318769717
reminder he stole segas money to finish memelands 2
>>318771234
>but piracy only gives one connotation
>We have to make better anti-piracy software and people want this game enough to steal it.
Gearbox and EA
>>318769148
I haven't given EA any money in probably 7 or 8 years
I do try to boycott certain products where I can.
Most of the shit I boycott normally turns out to be garbage anyway.
On a side note, what is everyone's biggest reason for a boycott? Mine is out of principle of the individual being a complete fuckhead, you don't need many guesses to suss out who I mean.
>>318771324
how exactly did you get burned with the gamecube
or are you one of those memermen
I don't even remember the last EA game I purchased. They've been releasing trash for a long time, but the point where they released an official annoucement titled "We can do better" which was about how they don't actually have any problems and people just hate on them due to "homophobia" and because they're popular was the breaking point. I mean shit, how the fuck do you start press release with a "We can do better" and end it with "We stand proud and unbowed".
>>318771016
>>318771284
In an age where the game working in the first place isn't guaranteed I don't see how pirating to try it out first is a bad thing.
Most of the time, when a dev or publisher is shit, they don't (or no longer) make games I'm interested in. Saying that I'm boycotting them is just redundant. In the event that they have lucky fluke and make an interesting game or I want to play an old game that they own rights to, I pirate.
Ubisoft
>>318771535
To add, I'm pretty sure that this is the same sentiment with most of /v/ but they usually fail to put it into words.
>>318769148
riot games
bethesda
ea
>>318769148
I haven't bought or played a single EA game since dead space 3, and the same can be said about ubishit after ass creed 3.
>my phone now auto corrects ubisoft to ubishit
Fucking lel.
NFL2K series fanboy here. Been boycotting Madden for like 10-11 years. Fuck the exclusivity NFL deal.
No competition for Madden = yearly $60 roster updates.
EA, since they killed Bullfrog.
Each time I'm realy close for purchasing an EA game, I remember how they killed off Dungeon Keeper 3 and the shit they did to C&C4.
Works every time.
>>318771128
nintendo is innovative for popularizing physical dlc on happy meal toys
I don't remember why I'm upset at Capcom, all I know is I decided never to buy anything from them.
>>318771064
Who says so? You? Who the fuck are you?
>>318769148
I wanted DAI to be good but it felt boring and empty. I did enjoy it for 30 hours but I won't be fooled anymore. Bioware is a shadow of its past and I will never buy a game from them ever again.
>>318769148
I haven't bought a capcom game since they cancelled Megaman Legends 3. And it really wasn't that hard since everything they released afterwards has been shit.
>>318769148
Most of /v/ boycotts non pc developers.
>>318769148
didn't buy crypt of the necrodancer because of Silverstring media involvement
>>318769148
343I
I haven't bought a single EA game since Sims 3, it's the only thing stopping me from the new Battlefront
I've also stopped with most Ubisoft games
>>318771128
Oh, are you one of those anons who thinks locking characters, skins, stages, etc behind toys, or locking new characters behind "legends editions" isn't bad or something?
I'd take 4 season passes at launch over amiibo. It'd be cheaper, too.
Bethesda since Zenimax sued Carmack
>>318772149
>Silverstring media involvement
who? educate me anon
>>318771501
I got memed into buying boringlands. I hated it.
Then they ruined duke nukem
Then they intentionally ruined aliens to pump money into memelands 2
After hearing about borderlands 2's season pass shit and memes there was no way I was getting that shit or anything from gearbox ever again
>>318769148
I never get anything from EA.
>>318772097
If you think otherwise, you're not a man. Simple enough for you, kiddo?
>>318771515
>In an age where the game working in the first place isn't guaranteed I don't see how pirating to try it out first is a bad thing.
Because /v/ are MASSIVE corporate cocksuckers.
>>318771501
Anti
>>318771926
>roman from romania
>chad from chad
everytime
Valve since the paid mods fiasco
>>318769148
Boycotting Xenoblade Chronicles X right now.
We'll see how long it'll last because I kinda want to play that at some point.
>>318769148
Yeah, I boycott EA because I'm poor.
>>318772258
So you're no one?
>>318769148
Nintendo. Region locking and absolute garbage third party support in recent years is the main reason.
NoA and their lazy meme filled localization keeps me from coming back.
>>318769148
EA
battlefront 3 was the last straw I will never buy another one of their games
I haven't bought an Ubisoft or EA game in the last 5 years.
And it looks like I'll keep it this way desu senpai.
>>318769148
EA
Ubisoft
Nintendo
I really should boycott Bethesda MADE games. Their publishing wing is decent though, if not dicks.
For a while Namco, but they've gotten back into my good graces.
NISA
Uhhh, that's off the top of my head.
I suppose the obvious as well, like Nexxon or companies that make mostly phone games.
>>318769148
EA, for so long that I don't even remember the initial reason anymore.
I did falter and buy the ME trilogy for 10$ on psn.
I haven't bought an EA game new since Dead Space 1. I'll likely never purchase an EA new ever again.
Ubisoft. I wouldn't even pirate their shit.
>liked The Settlers 6
>download Settlers 7 demo
>it has always-online DRM
>have to register an account to play campaign
>in a free demo
>mfw
I didn't even sign up. Uninstalled right then and there and haven't touched an Ubishit "product" since.
>>318772381
Buy it used, bruh.
Play theneuteredgame and stick it to Nintendo at the same time.
Nintendo
>censorship
>awful treatment of fans
>worst DLC per cost in the industry
>>318772531
Oh, gearbox. Them too.
>>318772201
basically a pr group that is advised by anita and is generally extreme leftist
involved with Digra too
were involved with all the 'gamers are dead' stuff that got posted
>>318772381
you really only have to boycott it until it pops up in a pawn shop near you or you can buy it used from fuckstop
>>318772640
>Leftist
Like real leftist or when /v/ thinks "all left is SJW" shit?
I don't buy EA or Ubisoft games anymore but I wouldn't call it a boycott. They just don't make good games.
>>318772585
>loved the shit out of The Settlers 2 on my shitbox running a Pentium 2
>decided to relive the dream in a VM enviroment
>game is fucking shit
This is probably the only game where I have nostalgia goggles.
Nintendo for fascist jap propaganda (aryan race of their characters)
Sony after telling more lies than Todd Hodward
>>318769148
EA after what happened to SimCity 2013 and Sims 4.
Bethesda after TESO.
Ubisoft after AC Unity and that new ANNO bullshit.
CH since, like always?
Also carpe fulgur, if you also count independent group because fuck that emo gay shit and being responsible delaying TiTS SC release down the drain until it turned stale.
>>318772712
i cant go too much into explanation because it borders on 'that thing we're not allowed to talk about for some reason' but if you do a little research you'll see what i mean.
I'm sure Sargon did a vid on them at some point, or was somehow involved. Regardless, i don't want anything they've supported having my money
Also ignoring the leftism they have been linked to ddosing sites and stuff
>>318769148
>Kingdom Hearts series after KH2: FM+ wasn't brought over back in the 6th gen
>DmC
Yes, I have fucking integrity unlike most other 'gamers'. I swear most of them are fucking stupid as fuck. They always talk about boycotting this, boycotting that. "[x company] isn't getting any of my money." But then they turn right around and buy said game or continue to buy shit from said company anyway.
Gamers literally have no integrity and allow companies to dick around with them.
>>318769148
Nintendo.
I haven't bought a Wii U, and won't buy an NX unless they bring F-Zero back.
They had Nintendo Land F-Zero, but that was half assed as hell, so I half assed and bought a 2DS when it was on 75% off super sale. I ended up selling it later.
>>318771910
You're stronger than me anon.
>>318772138
>everything they released afterwords has been shit
Ultra was pretty good m8. Strider was fucking amazing. You're missing out.
Nintendo for using poisonous to the environment plastic in their console and rare metals from child workers
I haven't bought a PC game with DRM in it since I pirated Spore.
>>318769148
I boycott EA because they make shit games
>>318772712
Not real leftist. Like "Check your privlige, hot women trigger me" leftist.
>>318772927
Also before anyone says shit, I don't even really buy S-E games anymore and I only buy Capcom games that interest me and to tell them that I'm interested in a certain series or whatever. Essentially voting with my wallet.
And I don't give EA, Ubishit, Activision, or most Western AAA devs my money either.
>>318773000
It's not a joke
>>318772924
I'm just trying to figure out if we're talking actual leftists or SJWs, because /v/ is retarded and thinks anyone liberal or on the left is an SJW, and it's hard for me to tell if you're retarded or if they really are SJWs.
>EA (shits)
>Ubisoft (every game is a buggy mess)
>Larian (after Divinity censorship, didn't buy it and won't)
>Bioware (pirated ME, won't even touch everything else)
>>318771501
>On a side note, what is everyone's biggest reason for a boycott?
Dicking around with the fanbase, making shit games that only appeal to plebs and casuals, bullshit DLC and DRM.
Gearbox after that clusterfuck that was Borderlands 2 endgame
why does everyone hate EA so much
consoles after being underpowered PCs
>>318769148
havent bought a square-enix game since 10
>>318773327
How long do you have?
>>318773213
Someone who agrees with you here: they're straight SJW. It's pretty retarded to say you're boycotting them though because the odds of you wanting to play any game they were involved with is pretty low to say the least.
>>318773327
They killed some devs. Most of those devs stopped making games in the mid 90's, so it doesn't really add up as most of /v/ was not born yet
Yeah sure, I'm not buying anything that requires Uplay or Origin.
Steam, while not anyhow more amazing, was the first one to make such thing. Ubisoft and EA are just greedy jews trying to start their own money-making machine.
Also Steam isn't spyware.
>Implying /v/ is a hivemind
Only thing we are in agreement in is that SJWs are scum that need to be dealth with.
>>318773387
Okay then.
>>318773213
well i try not to buy into that. I'm one of the liberals who wont call himself one due to the fucking insanity that is modern day liberalism
they're definitely SJWs though. Put it this way, they supported ZQ, they are advised by Anita and have been involved in ddosing (allegedly) sites related to (that subject) so draw your own conclusions
I consider the vast majority of the extreme left to not really be leftists since they're becoming absurdly authoritarian which kind of goes against what the left is about (liberty)
but if you're so desperate to find out if i'm retarded or not do some fucking research and draw your own conclusions
>>318773481
/v/ kind of IS a hive mind. There are numerous topics and opinions where only one mindset is allowed and ANY other mindset will get you shouted down until you conform. Politics are the biggest one, probably. Specific fetishes you will also get attacked if you dislike/like specific ones.
Games as well. /v/ thinks there's a hivemind on games we're allowed to like.
>>318773385
A w-while
>>318773481
>dealt with
I think you're a teenaged edgelord and no matter how much I may dislike SJWs this personal army shit can fuck off.
>>318773327
The only problem I have with them is they liquidated blackbox killing off any chance of skate 4
>>318773682
I bet you like NTR faggot.
>>318773525
It's not modern day liberalism, though. It's a few extremists. It isn't as if conservative extremism wasn't prevalent for 50 years or something.
>>318769148
ubisoft and bethesda.
haven't bought a game from ubi since 2012, bethesda since 2008.
>>318769148
I don't buy any games.
>>318773759
I do, it's pretty good. Hard to find the good stuff though. I also hate furshit.
>>318773682
An angry faction of people determined to ignore opposing views does not a hivemind make
>>318769148
I have no doubt everyone on /v/ has boycotted EA at the very least.
I don't buy Bethesda games anymore out of principle. They're lazy and money grubbing.
>>318769994
This. The only EA game that I might consider buying is Mirror's Edge if it isn't total garbage, and every time I think about buying a Ubisoft game I remember that time I couldn't install a game because the uplay servers were down.
>>318773481
Nah, the anti's on /v/ are as bad as the SJWs now.
>>318773859
It sure does a groupthink make.
Try reading this then telling me with a straight face NONE of this applies to /v/. Almost all of it does. Every single fucking part.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_think
>>318773712
>ruined Dragon Age with 2, set character with no roleplaying
>ruined Mass Effect with 3, Prothean character locked behind preorder paywall
>horrendous DLC practices well before the rest of the industry had cottoned on
>use their support of LGBT groups as a shield to protect them from criticism
>countless other things I can't recall at the moment
There's a reason they won The Economist's worst company in the world 2 years in a row.
>>318773682
I always thought that picture was more to do with the beauty of anonimity
You can post something incredibly stupid but after the mini shit-storm dies down, everyone forgets entirely about it and there's nothing tying you to that post so you can feel free to post other things without worrying about ridicule.
>>318773869
I haven't. I don't really have a problem with EA.
>>318773869
10:1 there are people posting here who still buy every madden game
I haven't bought an EA game since Battlefield 3. Yanking out dedicated servers for fuckking consoles and trying to pass the buck on to the consumers through rental services was pretty shitty. Then they tried their damnedest to segregate the community between normal sensible people and Premium members with unique weapons, dogtags and an obnoxious P symbol next to their name.
It was just horseshit after horseshit with all their other IPs from there on in.
>>318773856
>likes NTR
>hates furshit
I'm conflicted.
Bethesda after the royalties fiasco with Obsidian
EA because of what they did to Spore
Blizzard after Mists of Pandaria
I don't play many games. I just gorge on Mount and Blade. This is my life.
>>318774030
You can, but it doesn't work that way because it doesn't overwrite the human brains instinct. People want to fit in, being anonymous does not change this. You can find many studies on this.
>>318769148
I've sworn off any microsoft console after that crap they tried to pull with the one. When your parents work a manufacturing job in smalltown U.S.A. used games are your lifeblood in this hobby. I ain't supporting that, even if they backed out.
I haven't even pirated an EA or Ubisoft game in I don't know how many years and I don't plan to anytime soon. Most everyone else is a case-by-case thing, but those two aren't even going to get my attention, much less my money.
I'm really close to adding Nintendo to that list, too. They've done nothing but stumble over themselves and alienate fans since the release of the Wii U.
>>318773973
The sheer contrarianism that now infests modern /v/ ensures that someone will always hold the opposite opinion in any given discussion.
Yes it's obvious that group think is present but characterizing the whole community that way is not only doing /v/ a disfavor but also yourself as part of that community.
>>318773771
exactly
i spent my early years listening to right wing religious nut jobs censoring things like marilyn manson, and earlier having tried to fucking bring judas priest to trial for muhh satanism
When they went away i thought great, these new guys will be so much better but theyre being just as authoritarian and censorship heavy just from a different perspective
Also 'it's a few extremists' is a dumb argument. first of all because they're having clear effects on society at large (protein world posters being banned is the first example i can think of but there's hundreds of others) and also because extremists are the ones who do things, and create change.
Brigitte Gabriel btfo some woman who used the muhh extreme minority argument, YT it
>>318774019
Because we stuffed the ballot. Which is fine, mind you, because they deserved to be shit on, but really. EA is pretty shitty but they've got nothing on some of the other companies that were in the running.
>>318774278
Long as you admit that yes, there is a sort of group consensus here that people are expected to adhere to.
>>318773327
>why does everyone hate EA so much
Killed a lot of devs.
Main pushers of always online DRM.
Horrible DLC and micro-transaction practices.
Hid the unsubscribe button from TOR's website just before the end of free month.
They actively tried to hide behind "we are actually perfect and people hate us because they're homophobes" excuse.
>>318774426
The other companies don't take the PR hit seriously though, but EA sure as hell did.
>>318774351
Sorry dude but if you actually think SJWs represernt liberalism then I don't have a high opinion on your intelligence. There are still religious nutjobs running the republican party, and racists, but if I generalize the right as a ideology of racism and hate, I'd be called out for it, wouldn't I?
>It's a few extremists is a dumb argument
No, it isn't, because basing an entire group over the actions of a few extremists is purely retarded.
>>318773327
Absorb companies and release sequels to there games that are vastly off the mark of the originals, then destroying these companies when games don't sell like some kind of money consuming shoggoth. rumored to be crap to employees,and ruining Dead Space.
>>318774460
I have never seen a community where that was not the case. Also those standards shift over time. Ten years ago this site was staunchly South Park liberal, now it looks like a GOP rally at times.
>>318769148
I don't really boycott. If the game is good, I buy it, regardless of company. Stuff like ubisoft, on the other hand, I usually pirate because I hate dealing with their Uplay shit.
>>318774584
Yeah hence the "it's fine". I don't think Comcast or whoever would even have acknowledged it.
>>318774687
And you are expected to adhere to those challenges as well. Try saying you're liberal here, or you like a game /v/ hates.
>I have never seen a community not like that
And? That is irrelevant.
>>318774469
Other companies do worse and don't get that shit.
>>318770167
>>318774103
>Blizzard after MoP
What the fuck, you didn't boycott those retards after CATA?
>>318774886
This is about video game companies you twat.
>>318774351
So you're an SJW?
>>318774908
I thought /v/ loved MoP because yiff?
>>318769148
Bioware/EA - Mass Effect 2
Ubisoft - I don't remember, but I hate that niggerbitch they use at E3 so I wasn't actually boycotting until then
Bethesda - I don't actually buy their games but after Fallout 3 I'm never buying or pirating them again
Square Enix until recently. Technically still haven't bought any SE games but I no longer object to it since they're bringing DQ games to the west again.
I don't actually boycott Activision games but I nonetheless haven't bought any since WotLK
Blizzard.
I do not support faggots who actively cultivate and support toxic communities. Even their fucking CMs are celebrated faggotry on parade.
It is AMAZING the number of bullshit elements in the modern gaming era that can be traced directly back to this single company.
I just buy the game used off some guy on ebay if the company pulls some bullshit. Still get to play the game while not supporting the people involved. A win-win I guess.
>>318774962
There are other video game companies that do the exact same things you listed or worse and don't get shit on.
>>318774019
I'll add to that
>Milked the IPs of several studios dry as quick as they could then shut their doors
>Forced Co-op into Dead Space 3 (a fucking survival horror series set in deep space)
>Microtransactions
>Ruined Dungeon Keeper and made a pay to win single player mobile game
>Released Battlefront with 4 maps at launch but with a $50 season pass
> This shit right here with BF3 and 4 >>318774091
To what extent it was Bioware and to what extent it was EA, I don't know but Mass Effect 3. The game wasn't just underwhelming. It was the opposite of what they promised. They claimed you wouldn't have an A B or C sort of ending scenario. But it was exactly that. Also using a stock image as the face for Tali (a character who spent the last two games hidden behind a mask) was a slap in the face to the people who had come to like her character. I'm sure there's more.
There is no company jewier than blizzard
No, not even EA. Call me when EA has a 2 day convention with nothing there, for more than a cost of a 4 day pass for PAX, anime expo and comicon combined.
>>318774793
I do those all the time though. And for games /v/ hates, have you not seen the Undertale threads? The Project M threads?
I also like how you're simultaneously claiming that the community enforces a singular opinion when you yourself clearly diverge from those opinions. You realize you are part of the community, yes?
I vowed never to buy any games developed by Just Add Water after the colossal turd that was the Oddboxx.
Stranger's Wrath and Munch's Oddysee launched horribly broken, Munch the worst as they'd farmed it out to another port house. It took them over a year to fix Strangers Wrath with the HD update, and we were also promised Munch HD which they ended up abandoning leaving the PC version of Munch's Oddysee is broken to this day.
>Have any of you actually boycotted a video game company?
EA I guess. At least I never bought anything from Origins, so it wasn't really hard for me to avoid their games.
>>318769148
I've boycotted every single game that has Denuvo on it and I've done so consistently.
In fact, I've never bought a game with Denuvo, Origin, or Uplay on it.
I haven't bought an EA or bethesda game in years. My life feels pretty good.
>>318775071
Like?
I don't buy anything that requires Origin or uPlay.
I've never bought any game from Bioware or EA. I didn't buy D3 until the auction house was gone.
>>318775203
Are you actually saying /v/ hates undertale? lol
No, a game /v/ hates is like life is strange and indivisible. Undertale is so popular it gets targetted by funposting, even by fellow fans. No game that /v/ actively helped beat SMW in a poll can be called hated
>>318769148
I never buy new releases from EA, Ubisoft, Activision, and most Western AAA companies for obvious reasons. If I'm interested in a game from one of them, I'll buy it used years down the line.
>>318775203
Are you stating you are not oppossing my alternative opinion? Are we not having an argument right this moment?
If /v/ was accepting to said things, why did you not ignore me? Why respond to say I am wrong or should not say that?
>>318775335
Nintendo is a good one, they just have a lot of fanboyism and cover it up enough people accept it.
>>318775008
People who think Overwatch is going to be a success are delusional. Blizzard killed any hype behind it with it's $40 price tag and godawful press Q to win game play.
CS:GO will stay the most played FPS on the market, and TF2 will continue to satisfy people looking for class based gameplay. Hell, even Dirty Bomb satisfies that.
If by boycott a video game company you mean simply stopped buying games from publishers I don't like, then yes. I've "boycotted" a few.
I have not puchased a single EA or Activion game in over 5 plus years because neither of them deserve my money and I'd rather install bloatware.exe on my PC than play games on Origin.
Not all of use are spineless retards with no self control thay support things they dislike because it's popular and heavily marketed.
>it uses origin
>it uses uplay
>its published by SEGA
These arent really boycoting, i just dont want to fight with the software.
>>318772183
>i'd take 4 season passes
Ah, so you are the worst of the cancers. Go fuck yourself.
>>318773973
I don't think group think can really exist among anonymous people because the entire idea revolves around wanting to remain part of a decision-making group that could ostracize you or be damaged by internal conflict. When your identity isn't attached to anything you say, you can say anything with total disregard for the consequences. There's no group cohesiveness to threaten by speaking up.
I think this is why people tend to use words like hive mind instead. Collective ignorance brought on by people sharing similar confirmation bias for sure, but group think is too specific an idea to easily attach to 4chan.
>>318775507
The fact that's constant contention over the game at the very least suggests opposing opinions, which is anti-hivemind.
Also I see people talk about how "surprisingly good" life is strange is all the fucking time. Indivisible has a thread up every day for god knows how long now despite not actually fucking existing. you're not being super convincing here.
>>318773682
>a lot of people tend to agree on a site where disagreement has no consequence and is encouraged if well thought out and makes sense
>GUYS CHECK IT OUT, A HIVEMIND. THEY'RE JUST LIKE US FAGGOTS IN NEOGAF WHERE WE PERMANENTLY BAN PEOPLE WHO DON'T AGREE OR REDDIT WHERE WE SILENCE THEM THROUGH DOWNVOTES
You're a dumb faggot.
I've thrown Take Two onto my shitlist after the mess known as GTAO. From now on, all future Take Two titles either get pirated or purchased used. Take Two also has to be one of the most insidious publishers in trying to hide themselves & their bullshit, foisting the limelight on the developers and hiding. Not anymore.
>>318775925
A single amiibo costs as much as a season pass when adjusting for scalping and scarcity
>>318776004
And yet it does exist. Symptoms exist for a reason, alls aid symptoms can be noted here.
>>318776007
>Also I see people talk about how "surprisingly good" life is strange is all the fucking time. Indivisible has a thread up every day for god knows how long now despite not actually fucking existing. you're not being super convincing here.
Are you baiting or are you just really new? Those games are unanimously shit on here newfriend.
>>318769148
im boycotting the entire industry by not purchasing games anymore
>>318776245
>A 1950's car is worth Bill Gate's fortune when adjusting for scalping and scarcity
>>318776053
>shouts down a guy for disagreeing on /v/ not being a hivemind, just like everyone else is doing, accurately recreating the guys picture
Like pottery
I'm kinda boycotting Blizzard right now, they've just gone too far with their jewishness, but I don't do it because I wanna achieve something or think that it actually does something, I really don't care, I have accepted that there are just way too many fanboys that will blow money up blizzard's ass, but I just can't justify giving them any of my money anymore
>>318775203
/v/ doesn't hate undertale, the whole reason it's being hated now is because /v/ loved and pushed it too much.
>>318769148
I mean, I guess I'm boycotting EA, but they haven't made a game that's interested me in a long time, so I'm not sure that counts
>>318775059
Nope. Pirating is the only solution. By buying a game used, you've enabled the same idiot who bought it new from them to go do it again.
>>318776387
Who are you quoting? One is true, the other is you basically shitposting. A Lucina amiibo is 45 dollars, unlocks one thing.
How much is a season pass usually? 30? 40? You support cancer worse than dlc, brah. But it's nintendo so it's fiiiine!
>>318775632
Are you saying that literally any disagreement is groupthink? That'd be a pretty preposterous claim especially since I have already expressed a number of unpopular-on-/v/ opinions in this thread.
I boycott the games since they are shit.
CoD
Halo
TLoU
5NAF
MADDEN
FIFA
NBA
Fallout
Tomb Raider
Bayonetta
The list goes on and on and on...
TW3 and most likely CDPR's future games unless CP2077 is amazing. Which I don't see happening.
>>318769148
Activision (on my shit list but I still like Blizzard)
Dice (fuck them)
Nintendo (once upon a time)
Gearbox (is on my shit list but I still bought borderlands at sale price)
All infinity/amiibo genre games and toys.
EA, except for plants vs zombies which isn't really controlled by EA.
>>318771910
I boycotted all football association after 2005. The entire culture is nothing but a marxist shit fest of degenerates. The NFL is owned by shitty liberal filth posing as conservatives.
I was hoping Sega/2k would take an NHL game to the next level but didn't ;/
The hockey is the only decent pro sport left.
>>318776431
>discourse isn't allowed because that makes anything you do make me right
I see you're fresh from Tumblr.
>>318776431
And you've responded with a dissenting opinion.
Kiln-fired.
>>318770167
How well has that worked out for ya?
>>318776331
Considering the second part if your post, it's much more likely it's just your confirmation bias. You come in expecting /v/ to share one mind on a subject, and ignore all evidence to the contrary. You see what you want to see, just as almost everyone here does. You're part of the very problem you're trying to point out.
>>318769148
Ninja Theory and anything made by that kike Keiji Inafune for being responsible for it.
>>318776528
>You support cancer worse than DLC brah
First of all, assuming that I even have a WiiU. Second; it's irrelevant what some faggot one bay sells a Lucina figure for if I come along and sell one for 10 dollars. The arbitrary price made by scalpers does not determine the value of a mass produced item.
>>318769148
EA since Mass effect 3
Bethesda since Oblivion
Ubisoft since well forever
Activision since Diablo 3
>>318776632
I had that belt buckle when I was 15
>>318776478
Even the fanboys are recognizing Blizzards jewish ways and leaving in droves. WoW is down to numbers bellow vanilla numbers and all their games sans Hearthshit are dead.
LotV sold like shit, Overwatch is DoA like HotS, the ride is pretty much over for Blizzard. And it's all their own fault.
>>318775632
>Nintendo is a good one, they just have a lot of fanboyism and cover it up enough people accept it.
I dislike post-Wii Nintendo but comparing them to EA is sheer nonsense. Please point me to the studios they've bought and gutted or anything remotely comparable in the last decade to the time that EA literally hid the unsubscribe button for their MMO
and deleted links to it off their forums.
>>318776716
Pretty well. Most of their games have been total trash for several years now.
>>318769148
I have not boycotted one per se, I just refuse to buy a Nintendo system until it has an F-zero game on it.
>>318773000
Except Sony did that too and the PS2 was the main factor in those African wars.
Bethesda, Microsoft, and EA are on my shitlist, NoA soon depending on how Fates turns out. Tripwire might be, too, depending on how KF2 turns out.
I won't even consider a Double Fine game.
>>318769148
What's with OP and his assumption that /v/ is some sort of single entity?
>>318774638
>I would be called out for it
Not really because the evidence is in their voting habits.
>>318770242
I came to the conclusion sony was a jew when they announced Paid online and no one but me was sitting there saying "Uhm... what the fuck is this shit?"
The day of the announcement. Instead people were just cheering..
It was the same day I realized how highly autistic Sony fans were, I still bought my PS4 and have been avoiding the no gaems meme but its all true.
2 years and all we have is Bloodborne and favorite weeb shit wont be getting a localization until 6 years after its release.
My PC is arriving tomorrow finally can enjoy multiplats on the superior platform that doesnt make excuses for having shir FPS in the year of the lord 20 fucking 15
Shame on you who still support sony after their bullcrap and use the argument "they use the sub fees for better servers"
Only EA.
>>318776832
For me, it's EA since DAII, Bethesda since Skyrim, Ubisoft since Uplay with the exception of the Rayman games, and Activision since forever
>>318769148
Sony because they decided to lower their standards and be greedy assholes instead of setting the bar higher for the industry.
EA after they murdered Pandemic.
Ubisoft after 2012 as it seems everything they released after that was a rushed piece of shit with no content.
after Nintendo went to shit (ie Wii era) I stopped buying their shit. I bought a 3ds last year for smash and am sorta cautiously looking forward to the nx, but they were/are pretty dead to me on the console side
also fuck amiibos
I don't buy anything EA or Activision publish new.
This isn't really a moral decision. It's more that neither company puts out anything I feel I "Must" own, and their business practices keep me from buying the less interesting things I might otherwise give a chance.
Also, Bethesda is on the list now. I didn't buy Fallout 4, but my brother did, and based on my experience with it, it's just absolutely disgusting that they could put out such a defective, unpolished product and think it was fine. I may just be a drop in the bucket, but they won't see a penny of my money until this trend changes. Skyrim had plenty of problems, but it wasn't nearly as bad as this fucked up mess.
>>318769148
I'm extremely reluctant to buy EA and Ubisoft games. In fact I haven't bought any at all since they started forcing Origin and Uplay on us.
So yes I suppose I do boycott some video game companies.
>>318769148
EA.
Fuck them.
I girlcott Sega because sonic's arms are NOT blue
>>318776331
I just went the archive, searched 'life is strange good' and saw many discussions between people with differing opinions on the first couple of pages, not even including the bait posts.
Seems >>318776746 is right, you're just ignoring anything that doesn't matchup with what you believe.
I only recently took Capcom off my boycott list because I'm still asshurt over MML3
I don't buy any games funded by major publishers.
>>318777097
Blog post
>Be me
>Have old PC and PS3
>Finally have cash to make new PC
>Make new PC, really powerful 1440p 96 fps machine.
>Play tons of games on emulator
>Play new releases I skipped that are 10 bucks now like The Evil Within with 60 fps, no black bars etc
>Really want to play Bloodborne
>Cave and get a PS4 for Disgaea and BB
>Didn't enjoy BB that much
>Disgaea was ok
>Nier 2 may be multiplatform, Disgaea coming to PC, can't play BB online unless I pay 60 dollars and don't want to import games for premium prices right now so nothing to play with it
I'm a fucking retard. I could of used that 450 dollars for a NVME hard drive instead. I fell for the fucking BB meme. It's even worse because I was playing things at 96 fps and then I get dropped to fucking 30 fps with dips. I want to die. Why did I spend that money? At least I got over 300 hours of game time on the Wii U I bought and now won't buy shit because of censorship.
I haven't particularly boycotted anyone completely or specifically but I have boycotted some things. Like Origin for example. I haven't actually given anything to EA for quite a while before that but I will never install Origin so effectively rules them out for me.
Blizzard, while I haven't boycotted them specifically I haven't given them a dime for 9-10 years simply because there hasn't been anything worthwhile. They did take a giant shit on D3 and that was the only thing I would have bought if it had been good. If they just made it run offline for single player and LAN mode and mods and PvP and I'd buy it.
it's a non issue unless you are a shit eater. good games deserve to be bought because they are good. shit games shoudln't. I mean you don't have to invent reasons to not buy garbage like fallout4. EA isn't infamous because of their rep, they are infamous for shitting shit yearly games.
>>318777097
> no one but me was sitting there saying "Uhm... what the fuck is this shit?"
Yeah anon, you sure were the only one. You were the only highly intellectual one to go for yet another platform that is even worse bound when it comes to videogames.
just never pay more than 20 bucks for a game.
>EA
Needs no explanation
>Ubisoft
Shows they just do not care anymore. Almost every game they've released within the past couple of years has been an unfinished, buggy mess. Also fuck UPlay.
>Nintendo
Refuses to get with the times and practices bullshit like physical DLC and rampant unnecessary censorship.
>Blizzard
Has churned out nothing but shit in over a decade and that doesn't look like it's gonna change anytime soon.
>>318769148
I don't buy any ubisoft, EA or activision games new, but I might get them pre-owned or play them for free if they are on games for gold or I can borrow them for a friend.
>>318778271
Wrong.
http://fineleatherjackets.net/monkeyinflation
>>318778018
I can't enjoy CoD but I can enjoy shitting around in Battlefield for a few hours once the games turn cheap but now I'll never buy another for this exact reason.
Ubisoft is worse. I will absolutely never even put traces of their disgusting trash on my PC by even pirating their games.
>>318769148
EA, bethesda.
Though bethesda is only somewhat a boycott. ill buy their game when its in the bargain bin for like 5$ and the modders have had the chance to fix all the glaring issues that dudebros are oblivious to. but only because im lazy as fuck and hate getting the correct official patches necessary for the mods to work on a pirated version.
>>318778390
Physical DLC is better than virtual DLC especially because it works game to game.
The censorship is ridiculous though so never ever for me too. And no, I don't own any Amiibos because I don't like buying DLC at all.
>>318778420
just never pay more than 36 bucks and 23 cents for a video game
