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[sono]

Great points op.

However if everyone thought what I do wont make a difference, I think we would have a different world.

Pick your battles according to your priorities and interests. Your battles may be different to others, but that does not make it wrong or even not worth doing for you.

When gamers club together with one voice (DRM anyone ?) a difference is made..

 

[Artex]

I would never "boycott" a game that I was interested in. If its good, I buy it. If it sucks, I don't. If there is a shitty reason as to why you would consider boycotting a game then you probably just don't want it anyways, because it has a shitty feature that sucks.

 

[2+2=5]

Really?
Boycotts, protests etc gave us results, have you already forgotten the XB1 180 for example?
Obviously not everyone is so smart to consider what gamers say, but i'll assure you that your words and actions are never a waste, if you fight a good fight someone will hear your words and will do the same, others will hear his words and so on, in the long run your words and actions will make the difference.

 

[Zakalwe]

Really?
Boycotts, protests etc gave us results, have you already forgotten the XB1 180 for example?

Already explained my view on that, here.

Obviously not everyone is so smart to consider what gamers say, but i'll assure you that your words and actions are never a waste, if you fight a good fight someone will hear your words and will do the same, others will hear his words and so on, in the long run your words and actions will make the difference.

Sometimes they simply have no impact, and I fully believe this. Not one of the people boycotting Titanfall because it forces use of Origin will make any kind of impact.

This is why I say pick and choose, because sometimes it is utterly futile, ie: Origin isn't going anywhere and you are only limiting your own access.

If, however, the Titanfall devs announced micro-transactions that offered pay to win elements, then a boycott could certainly make a difference as there would be obvious potential for traction.

I also acknowledged that if your principles are that important to you, then I get it.

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

I put my money where my mouth is.

And I speak well of companies that don't try to screw me or distinctly avoid giving me what I want.

I tell it both how I personally feel, and how it is.

I give others reasons to question their blind loyalty and mistaken recollections that became Dogma and fairy tales without basis.

Hitting shockingly bad-behaving companies in the wallet when they deserve the backlash is the only way they'll quit.

There's more great games coming out than ever. There is ALWAYS something else to play. Always something in the backlog.

They don't have a RIGHT to our cash.

And I will not quit.

 

[2+2=5]

Already explained my view on that, here.



Sometimes they simply have no impact, and I fully believe this. Not one of the people boycotting Titanfall because it forces use of Origin will make any kind of impact.

This is why I say pick and choose, because sometimes it is utterly futile, ie: Origin isn't going anywhere and you are only limiting your own access.

If, however, the Titanfall devs announced micro-transactions that offered pay to win elements, then a boycott could certainly make a difference as there would be obvious potential for traction.

I also acknowledged that if your principles are that important to you, then I get it.

Obviously Titanfall can't be changed but if it will get less sales than expected(with today's games huge budgets every sale is important) EA will do one or more of these:
-Will make Titanfall available somewhere else at later date
-Titanfall 2 won't be an Origin exclusive

Looking only at the present state of Titanfall(or any other game) without considering the future implications of a protest/boycott/etc(obviously if it's big and the motivation is right, not just a stupid whining form a vocal minority) means not having a global view of the things(i don't want to offend you with this sentence, but English is not my mother language so i had hard time to find a better words for my last sentence)

 

[Waluigilicious]

In that case I'm 'boycotting' it too, although I thought I'd made a simple decision not to buy based on its value proposition.

Well I make my feelings clear on miiverse too. It feels like a boycott because I feel very strongly about it. It's something I would have otherwise purchased without a second thought. I have every single physical and downloadable (non-vc) mario game on both 3DS and Wii U.

 

[conman]

Semantics, and the dictionary definition agrees with me. Let's try to stay on track.

Call it "semantics" if you like, but you're the one who is now bringing a dictionary into this. And, no, most dictionaries don't agree with you. And, yes, I think this is bigger than just semantics.

Equating consumer choice to a "boycott" is a sign of the many ways in which every decision these days has been over-politicized. And in the process, genuine political action (like actual boycotts) has been emptied of its power and significance. It's gross, and the entire premise of this thread is based on a false assumption about what constitutes a "boycott."

When I choose not to buy a game, it's for a lot of reasons. And if a company does something I don't like (whether for creative reasons, financial reasons, or totally arbitrary reasons) and I choose not to buy a game, that is a choice. It's not a boycott. I'm not making a "statement." It's a simple choice. It's the crazy political environment we live in these days that has transformed the most banal of choices into insanely charged statements.