There's really nothing more to it. The average person simply isn't interested in it. We may not belong to that group, but large companies make most of their money from the mass market of ordinary consumers. It is a bad situation.
and there are some people (like EA fanboys) who seem to really love getting stepped on their crotches. this is not something ordinary people would ever be able to understand.
This is exactly why ad tiers on streaming services succeeded and became industry standard. People paid for the ad-free tier while others paid for the ad-tier
You have to get the kids on board. They will continue to buy whatever they think is popular and they don't really care about the prices because often someone else is paying.
Boycotts certainly are effective or they wouldn't have become a thing.
The bottom line is when it comes to stuff like this how we spend our money has much more of an effect than how we vote. All that matter to them is the profit and loss.
>Boycotts certainly are effective or they wouldn't have become a thing.
This is an incredibly simplistic view.
Boycotts can be effective, but that doesn’t mean they always ARE effective. The smaller the target, the more effective it can be because the level of organization and public buy-in needed for it to place sufficient pressure on the target is lower. There are also generally fewer ways to casually consume the content being boycotted, and so more avenues where leverage(eg picketers, signs, etc) can be used.
Larger companies can also wait things out really well. Target saw a significant abandonment by many of its core consumers after its various political flip-floppings for a solid year or so….it still managed to make enough money to survive to today where customers are slowly returning.
When discussing modern games in particular, the audience being targeted is typically so large and varied and wholly disconnected from online discussions about the games that boycotts at a consumer level are functionally impossible unless there’s something very obviously the matter with the content itself. At which point it’s less a boycott, and more just market forces reacting to a bad product.
It sucks too because we keep yelling into the ether about certain games and people keep buying them.
We would probably have way better NFL videogames but because all these asshats continue to buy the next EA Madden game, we get the same slightly improved BS every single year.
Yes sir. Rich kids and streamers aren't gonna wait. They couldn't give a fuck less that they're enabling this shit to go on. All that matters is what they want. Now now now!
"Its all we got so we might as well just give them our money because we like football." Nah! I choose not to play into that. I stopped buying them and won't give EA any of my money.
im just a realist. a large corporation wont magically start making games better when they start losing money lmfao if anything they will just fire employees which in turn will make the games even worse. i wish it didnt work like that but sadly thats the reality
"Its all we got so we might as well just give them our money because we like football."
yes, i like football games and ill keep buying football games lmfao
college football was an amazing game and waaaay better than madden
"X is unfeasible because people aren't doing it" not quite a true statement. And this sentiment sure helps unmotivate anyone on the fence. Don't do this, please.
Historically, any time a boycott was executed, it worked. Again, you can't say it doesn't work because people don't do it. A statement like that makes no sense. It is difficult because it requires many individuals to unite and act in a coordinated manner. And this is why regulation and legislation is so important. To balance the power of people and companies in the market.
Maybe it's clearer to see the issue with the statement if you say it about other things: working out doesn't work to build muscle because people don't go to the gym. Brushing your teeth doesn't clean them because people don't do it.
Please, the first step to getting people to unite is to get them on the same page. They're not going to with people saying it's pointless. So I ask again to not do this.
The good news is that it is not pointless. And that it does work.
The internet is collectively about 15% of the population being up on internet current events
You can't do much with 15%.
The people actually interacting on the internet is a drastic minority sliver of the real world population. I hope you know this, or else you're assuming the internet is some kind of consensus.
It has never been a reflection of any real world consensus succinctly.
I wonder how much leveraging the fact that average gamers do tend to lean on the hardcore nerds from time to time at least might shift the arithmetic here. Mods, walkthroughs, user reviews, etc. The industry has benefited greatly from the unpaid work of caring volunteers since its inception. The theory is that some of this will pull back anyway due to killing games leading directly to killing enthusiasm for gaming. We all just need to take up disc golf for a few years. Imagine if gamers nexus starts doing woodworking. Yeah it would be rough and yeah those folks pumping buckets of money at Fifa wouldn't even notice, but I do think that realizing the value of the unpaid contributions made by fans is our best option at this point.
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Boycotts never work because a large scale boycott is unfeasible due to the average Joe having no freaking clue or doesn't care.