Because we're talking about games, it's pretty easy to just not consume. If you were talking about all the food companies doing something, there's not much we can do. Entertainment is a luxury and theoretically should be the easiest industry to boycott and force change.
On the other hand, you could also argue that because we're only talking about games, making a responsible consumer choice isn't that important.
There's no way to get everybody to boycott an entire industry on the principal of a change that has been made, at least not for any meaningful amount of time.
It's just kind of become an accepted fact of life that when you buy a game now days it will eventually be taken from you.
True, but if 10% of the playerbase joins you, their sales go down by 10%. That's a lot. Often, more than enough to notice. 10% can be completely doable, if it's something other people also care about.
Because we're talking about games, it's pretty easy to just not consume. If you were talking about all the food companies doing something, there's not much we can do. Entertainment is a luxury and theoretically should be the easiest industry to boycott and force change.
On the other hand, you could also argue that because we're only talking about games, making a responsible consumer choice isn't that important.
There's no way to get everybody to boycott an entire industry on the principal of a change that has been made, at least not for any meaningful amount of time.
It's just kind of become an accepted fact of life that when you buy a game now days it will eventually be taken from you.
True, but if 10% of the playerbase joins you, their sales go down by 10%. That's a lot. Often, more than enough to notice. 10% can be completely doable, if it's something other people also care about.
We are loathe to give up our circuses because most of us don’t actually want to spend our evenings and weekends building gallows.
I dunno, I wouldn't mind having a communal woodworking project.