Reduced current and future customers is very scary to investors.
It is, and its equally capable to happen if Nintendo starts having actual competition with its most guaranteed IPs from ex-employees and a legion of journos writing articles denigrating their value by comparison to this silly little game.
I think shareholders will be much more likely to be afraid of that scenario versus "some internet people said we were being mean :( , they might boycott us if we don't start acting right!"
What they are doing is wrong and probably legally wrong too, but you are talking about convincing the most amoral people in a mega corporation to care.
A different company, a smaller dev team pushing back against Sony internally to protect their IP, and an obvious massive revenue loss from Steam allowing refunds with no time limits.
As in, a completely different situation that has no relevance or comparison.
It is, and its equally capable to happen if Nintendo starts having actual competition with its most guaranteed IPs from ex-employees and a legion of journos writing articles denigrating their value by comparison to this silly little game.
I think shareholders will be much more likely to be afraid of that scenario versus "some internet people said we were being mean :( , they might boycott us if we don't start acting right!"
What they are doing is wrong and probably legally wrong too, but you are talking about convincing the most amoral people in a mega corporation to care.
Explain sony backing off on helldivers then?
A different company, a smaller dev team pushing back against Sony internally to protect their IP, and an obvious massive revenue loss from Steam allowing refunds with no time limits.
As in, a completely different situation that has no relevance or comparison.