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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, they left off the rest of that lesson, which is "boycotts don't work if you don't fucking do them". Boycotts work when they happen, and it's still a good thing to personally boycott a game you feel isn't up to your standards even if the broader community isn't, but it's been consistently shown nonetheless that gamers are horrible at wide-scale boycotts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

What do you think I meant by people won't refrain from buying. People not buying products they weren't going to buy anyways isn't a boycott. Do you trust the gaming community to actually not buy something they want?

People are misunderstanding that boycotts won't work in this case means a boycott isn't going to happen.