Thread for Gamers IX: God Howard Starfield Edition

[Platypus Bureaucracy]

Can one person boycott? Take part in a boycott, certainly, but just boycott? I dunno.

There are two types of boycotts:
1. Mass actions by large groups of people using social media and stuff. These amount to absolutely nothing, are a waste of time and exist only to make the participants feel good.
2. Semi silent boycotts by individual people like you and me that slowly snowball until the companies in question start loosing money. That makes them take notice. And lacking any overt leadership to bribe, open demands to cave into or defy and generally any input they either shape up or collapse.

I think that's just called "a company making a product people don't want."

[Minoa]

I feel reviewers do have a part in influencing sales: the player is more likely to purchase a game if it had an aggregate score of 90%, rather than 50%. That’s just how reviews work.

[Licana]

I feel reviewers do have a part in influencing sales: the player is more likely to purchase a game if it had an aggregate score of 90%, rather than 50%. That’s just how reviews work.

This presumes a widespread trust in the quality of video game reviewers, whether "professional" or user reviews.

[Minoa]

I feel reviewers do have a part in influencing sales: the player is more likely to purchase a game if it had an aggregate score of 90%, rather than 50%. That’s just how reviews work.

This presumes a widespread trust in the quality of video game reviewers, whether "professional" or user reviews.

Dang, I forgot that.

[Purpelia]

There are two types of boycotts:
1. Mass actions by large groups of people using social media and stuff. These amount to absolutely nothing, are a waste of time and exist only to make the participants feel good.
2. Semi silent boycotts by individual people like you and me that slowly snowball until the companies in question start loosing money. That makes them take notice. And lacking any overt leadership to bribe, open demands to cave into or defy and generally any input they either shape up or collapse.

I think that's just called "a company making a product people don't want."

Exactly. People simply need to silently choose that they don't want a product made by a bad company.

[Ameriganastan]

I mean, you gotta play The Pig when the guy has a name like that.

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

ESPN delays apex legions turnment.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator is fucking hilarious, love this little game.

[Ifreann]

I think reviewers should adopt a standard of automatically deduct a video game’s rating by a certain percentage if the video game in question has copyright-paranoid developers, excessive or intrusive DRM, or micro-transactions. Something like 25% to 50%, depending on the severity.

I do not know if that has been suggested before on the internet.

So devs just cut that stuff out of the review copies.

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Can one person boycott? Take part in a boycott, certainly, but just boycott? I dunno.

There are two types of boycotts:
1. Mass actions by large groups of people using social media and stuff. These amount to absolutely nothing, are a waste of time and exist only to make the participants feel good.
2. Semi silent boycotts by individual people like you and me that slowly snowball until the companies in question start loosing money. That makes them take notice. And lacking any overt leadership to bribe, open demands to cave into or defy and generally any input they either shape up or collapse.

When other people boycott it's because they're just virtue signalling, but when you do it you are bringing about the inevitable doom of the corporations you target.

[Ameriganastan]

You flip a coin to decide which of the two non-actual money needed Killers to buy. It comes up tails.

...I hate that coin. This guy sucks.

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

so I am the number one spot on leaderbord on the santas little helper sanario on plauge inc switch

Also won my first smash tourment

[The Biggles Syndicate]

I swear, with the amount of assassination squads Cephalon Suda has sent after me, she's effectively now a tsundere.

If I can wait 2 years for NMS, I can wait a couple months for Empyrean.

[Herador]

I swear, with the amount of assassination squads Cephalon Suda has sent after me, she's effectively now a tsundere.

Cressa Tal is the only waifu worth having, you know I'm right.

[Herador]

Look at this cute little squishy bastard

[The Biggles Syndicate]

Look at this cute little squishy bastard

I'd feel adoring if that massive opportunist emo asshole Stalker didn't show up to El Kabong me over the head in the middle of a Mobile Defense.

[Herador]

Look at this cute little squishy bastard

I'd feel adoring if that massive opportunist emo asshole Stalker didn't show up to El Kabong me over the head in the middle of a Mobile Defense.

I know the feeling. I pissed off New Loka and the psycho hippies sicked a team of Ancient Healers on me and my group while we were running a Relic defence. Would have been fine but they were all level 50 and we were on wave 15 or something so the enemies were getting up there too.

I cried, my team cried, Loka cried when I killed Tree Beard and the rest of the Ents sent to kill me. Good times.

[New haven america]

Doing my yearly run-through of old games I own.

Currently I'm on Donkey Kong Country 3, and then will follow it up with DKC Returns, and then not Tropical Freeze because I'm poor and don't have a Wii U or Switch.

[New haven america]

Look at this cute little squishy bastard

I'd feel adoring if that massive opportunist emo asshole Stalker didn't show up to El Kabong me over the head in the middle of a Mobile Defense.

… Stalker's pretty easy to deal with.

His drops percentages are shite though (He refuses to give me Hate and War).

[Herador]

I'd feel adoring if that massive opportunist emo asshole Stalker didn't show up to El Kabong me over the head in the middle of a Mobile Defense.

… Stalker's pretty easy to deal with.

His drops percentages are shite though (He refuses to give me Hate and War).

Stalker drop tables a shit, I don't want any more God damn despair's. DE plz

[New haven america]

… Stalker's pretty easy to deal with.

His drops percentages are shite though (He refuses to give me Hate and War).

Stalker drop tables a shit, I don't want any more God damn despair's. DE plz

DE, fix your game.

Tear it down from the ground up and rebuild it brick by bloody brick, thank you.

[Hurdergaryp]

[The Biggles Syndicate]

I'd feel adoring if that massive opportunist emo asshole Stalker didn't show up to El Kabong me over the head in the middle of a Mobile Defense.

… Stalker's pretty easy to deal with.

His drops percentages are shite though (He refuses to give me Hate and War).

I don't give two Railjack-sized shits about War or Hate or Emo sword #18479834875.

Asshole just does one of his shitty Meditation-then-slash attacks with that Disco grenade and I'm dead. Reddit lies because they don't take into account that he can and will* take the advantage when you're distracted and not looking behind you. I have killed him before though, he's like easy to deal with if you focus on him. Also I use Volt (who's low durability), you may laugh at me now.

* or at least it feels like it, I don't know I'm just pissed

[Ism]

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Oh that N64 controller brings back memories. Painful memories. Damn joystick hurt like hell when you spun it around.

[Ameriganastan]

Riot Games trying to make EA look good by introducing paid achievements.

[Herador]

… Stalker's pretty easy to deal with.

His drops percentages are shite though (He refuses to give me Hate and War).

I don't give two Railjack-sized shits about War or Hate or Emo sword #18479834875.

Asshole just does one of his shitty Meditation-then-slash attacks with that Disco grenade and I'm dead. Reddit lies because they don't take into account that he can and will* take the advantage when you're distracted and not looking behind you. I have killed him before though, he's like easy to deal with if you focus on him. Also I use Volt (who's low durability), you may laugh at me now.

* or at least it feels like it, I don't know I'm just pissed

See, there's your problem. Rhino main and roar then whoop his ass back to hell like a true Operator.