Why would I boycott them? I already agreed to the ToS, so why complain after you break them? EA makes great games, I will continue to buy them. Also, Good job EA, people need to stop being trolls!
EA Boycott?
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This guy... this guy has it right. Mirror's Edge was awesome, Dead Space is a well-built (though not especially scary) third person shooter, Mass Effect is one of the best RPG series I've ever played, and for all my whining and moaning about Battlefield 3's marketing and Origin exclusivity, I can't stop playing. It's amazing. It looks beautiful, and Battlelog is not annoying like I thought it would be.Makon said:
Oh, and if you haven't played the beta for The Old Republic yet, here's a protip: It's like KotOR and Mass Effect crawled into bed with WoW. That's selling it way, way short. I haven't played past the early stages of any MMO before I quit, and I refuse to pay monthly for my MMOs. The Old Republic is so good, I'm willing to break out my wallet and shell out fifteen bucks a month for it. I can't describe what it is that makes it so great. As I said before, you're playing KotOR, with friends, and all the conversations are Mass Effect style, fully voiced, and filled with badass. There's a narrative to your questing, and even the small side missions feel like smaller story missions rather than "Go to these coordinates and kill X number of wolves". I found myself wanting to do EVERYTHING, even the side stuff, because it gave me a chance to talk to more people, make more choices, further establish my character's identity, and explore more of the world.
I could rant forever just about that game, but I have a final paper for my college classes due soon. EA can be a company of out-of-touch DRM-crazy jerkwads, but the games the publish can end up being really damn good. Come to think of it, most of my best gaming experiences in the last year or two have been almost exclusively EA or Ubisoft funded titles. The companies are jerks who are greedy as can be, but the games they churn out of their studios help to smooth their relations with me.
Wait, wait, wait. So one of your problems with EA is it's $10 online passes, used to counter pre-used games, yet your willing to boycott and only buy pre-used from EA to hurt the company, justifying said passes?
And users getting temporarily locked out of their games because they act like jackasses on forums?
Just stop. Please. It's all well and good for you to not purchase anything from EA, but you aren't going to do anything. Not the tiniest thing to a corporation as big as EA.
And users getting temporarily locked out of their games because they act like jackasses on forums?
Just stop. Please. It's all well and good for you to not purchase anything from EA, but you aren't going to do anything. Not the tiniest thing to a corporation as big as EA.
gamer boycotts are worthless. there is no point to them. next good game they release 3/4 of the boycotters will be first in line to get it. also, hardcore gamers (gamers that actually care about this shit) are a very small minority of gamers that dont really have much of a financial say.
Don't forget the expiring DLC you get in NEW copies! They also punish you if you don't buy their games on day one. I'm trying to tone down my purchasing of EA games because of their obvious hatred of the very people that let them bathe in solid gold tubs filled with money. I'm not sure when I'll be able to fully stop. But ME3 is the only game by them that I'll be buying in the future.
It's a shame they've sucked up so many developers.
It's a shame they've sucked up so many developers.
I'm not boycotting them, but I don't like the idea of installing spyware on my computer, so no Origin games for me. The way EA is going, that seems like a functional boycott haha.
They haven't done a thing to me (unless I can blame that piece of shit game Dragon Age on them). So I'm not going to stop buying games from them just because you don't like what they do. Have fun continuing the boycott bandwagon.
I don't care if anybody does or doesn't buy EA games.
All I know is I'm not using origin, I outright refuse.
So yeah either I switch to buying EA games on console or I stop buying them all together.
Long story short, I'm not gonna stop you boycotting them but I'm not buying their stuff on my own choice, not as a boycott.
All I know is I'm not using origin, I outright refuse.
So yeah either I switch to buying EA games on console or I stop buying them all together.
Long story short, I'm not gonna stop you boycotting them but I'm not buying their stuff on my own choice, not as a boycott.
Y'know people, the fact that so many of you are refusing to join a boycott is the very reason the boycott won't work. By being so pessimistic and unwilling about it, you're part of the problem. You proud of that?
Corporations are never going to improve on their own. They always try to get the most money for the worst service they can get away with. And thus, EA is only going to get even worse if we let 'em. The only thing corporations ever, ever, ever care about is their bottom line. If human trafficking was legal, EA would definitely invest in child sex slave stocks. Corporations do not care about ethics. Some individuals within corporations care about ethics, but at the end of the day if it doesn't bring a profit, it doesn't matter.
And thus, there are two and only two ways to make corporations behave. The first one is extensive regulation to the micro level. Laws that tell corporations exactly what they can and can't do, and exactly how they have to do it. Essentially we need not a free market, but a chained up market that gets whipped and stepped on whenever it's been naughty. I'm actually a huge fan of this approach, but nobody else is because people actually care about the rights of huge wealthy entities that don't care about our rights. Go figure.
The second way? Boycotting of course. The only way people can possibly make corporations behave is by hurting their bottom line. And the only way to hurt a corporation's bottom line is a large-scale boycott. But because so many of you care too much about the short term, you're unwilling to do something that'll improve the long term. Which, by the way, is the same attitude that leads to obesity and global warming and laziness. Putting the short term before the long term never, ever, ever has a positive outcome. We're killing our favorite industry by letting it do whatever it wants.
If we don't stand up for ourselves, we will see a future where EA will put commercial breaks - not just billboards (which is already pretty terrible) but actual commercial BREAKS in their games. We will see a future where you have to enter a code just to play the single player mode. We will see a future where we can only use our copy of a game on a single console. We will see a future where an EA forum ban is means that you have to re-buy every game you ever bought from them. And that's why I'm drawing the line here.
So yes, I'm joining the boycott.
Corporations are never going to improve on their own. They always try to get the most money for the worst service they can get away with. And thus, EA is only going to get even worse if we let 'em. The only thing corporations ever, ever, ever care about is their bottom line. If human trafficking was legal, EA would definitely invest in child sex slave stocks. Corporations do not care about ethics. Some individuals within corporations care about ethics, but at the end of the day if it doesn't bring a profit, it doesn't matter.
And thus, there are two and only two ways to make corporations behave. The first one is extensive regulation to the micro level. Laws that tell corporations exactly what they can and can't do, and exactly how they have to do it. Essentially we need not a free market, but a chained up market that gets whipped and stepped on whenever it's been naughty. I'm actually a huge fan of this approach, but nobody else is because people actually care about the rights of huge wealthy entities that don't care about our rights. Go figure.
The second way? Boycotting of course. The only way people can possibly make corporations behave is by hurting their bottom line. And the only way to hurt a corporation's bottom line is a large-scale boycott. But because so many of you care too much about the short term, you're unwilling to do something that'll improve the long term. Which, by the way, is the same attitude that leads to obesity and global warming and laziness. Putting the short term before the long term never, ever, ever has a positive outcome. We're killing our favorite industry by letting it do whatever it wants.
If we don't stand up for ourselves, we will see a future where EA will put commercial breaks - not just billboards (which is already pretty terrible) but actual commercial BREAKS in their games. We will see a future where you have to enter a code just to play the single player mode. We will see a future where we can only use our copy of a game on a single console. We will see a future where an EA forum ban is means that you have to re-buy every game you ever bought from them. And that's why I'm drawing the line here.
So yes, I'm joining the boycott.
That's the thing though, you're assuming there is a good reason to boycott. The OP's definition for what should be used as a boycott basis and my definition of what should be a boycott basis are not in sync. You can be condescending about that fact all you want but the bottom line is I'm going to go ahead and buy all the EA titles I want because I have no problem with what EA has done.Belated said:
Granted, there are some who will agree with you and not boycott because of the reason you stated. I (and many others I'm sure based on what we've seen here) are not them.
...the guy received a warning for this? That's some bullshit.
Every time I start to regain an ounce of respect for The Escapist, they have to reassure me that they don't deserve it.
I'm boycotting Origin because it's a shit service, not because it's EA. At least EA doesn't treat all their paying customers like criminals, like Ubisoft. I'm boycotting them until they apologize for their crap DRM. Which will obviously never happen.
While you explicitly stated that you have good reason not to do so, there are a number of people who have said "I would buy it doesn't work."tippy2k2 said:
So you can go ahead and be condesending and aloof because He wasn't referring to you.
they won't even care, and you'll miss the titles you wanted to play.Fuhjem said:
i say, pirate them. THAT, they'll notice, and get very angry about.
He stated "the fact that so many of you are refusing to join a boycott is the very reason the boycott won't work". I may have mis-interpreted him but that sounds like he's telling us that a boycott won't work because people won't join it.dubious_wolf said: