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The Folly Of Gamer Boycotts (The Jimquisition) (Patreon)

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2020-02-03 15:40:31
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2020-05

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Pokémon Sword & Shield shifted over 16 million units worldwide despite a significant amount of pre-release controversy. Angry older fans may have promised a boycott, but the game's success has rendered much of the backlash over "Dexit" rather toothless. 

This is because Gamer Boycotts don't really work, and the concept has been so thoroughly discredited after years of failed attempts that it invites mockery and overshadows any legitimate complaints or grievances. 

From Modern Warfare 2 to The Wind Waker, whenever The Gamers(tm) decide not to buy something, that thing gets bought. A lot. So let's not use the rather poisonous "B" word, eh? 

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The Folly Of Gamer Boycotts (The Jimquisition)

http://www.patreon.com/jimquisition http://www.thejimquisition.com https://www.thejimporium.com Pokémon Sword & Shield shifted over 16 million units worldwide despite a significant amount of pre-release controversy. Angry older fans may have promised a boycott, but the game's success has rendered much of the backlash over "Dexit" rather toothless. This is because Gamer Boycotts don't really work, and the concept has been so thoroughly discredited after years of failed attempts that it invites mockery and overshadows any legitimate complaints or grievances. From Modern Warfare 2 to The Wind Waker, whenever The Gamers(tm) decide not to buy something, that thing gets bought. A lot. So let's not use the rather poisonous "B" word, eh? #Pokemon #Nintendo #GameFreak #PokemonSwordShield #Boycott #GamerBoycott #CallofDuty #Left4Dead #JimSterling #Jimquisition #Dexit __ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jimsterling Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jimsterling0 Jim’s Big Ego (No Relation): http://bigego.com/ Bandcamp of the Sax Dragon - https://carlcatron.bandcamp.com Nathan Hanover - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-8L7n7l11PJM6FFcI6Ju8A

Comments

moosemaimer

I will never stop laughing at that picture of the "Boycott MW2" group on Steam, showing about half the members currently logged into MW2.

Dying Breed

Oooooooooooh, I'm gonna enjoy this tidbit during my lunch break!

Anonymous

I wonder if Dexit actually helped Sword/Shield's sales

Anonymous

Jim in that fuckn suit at the beginning. DAMN I love it!

Zibi Majewski

Remember #BoycottBlizzard? Me neither.

Benedict Holland

I still haven't picked up borderlands 3. It can work but we have to be willing to give up something we want.

Emil Johansen

Boycotting this comments section.

Trevor Bond

Yeah, having not bought a mainstream title or console since.... well, hell, the PS2, I would say I've run a successful gamer boycott... I (the gamer) have boycotted mainstream titles and systems. Haven't spent a nickel on 'em in nearly a decade and a half. Still own just about every game ever released since people GIVE them to me as soon as they're bored with them, often system and all once a shinier version comes out. Never bothered playing any online multiplayer stuff though, and sure as heck never bothered buying online currency or spending any money on anything for those games, and I have happily given back systems and games when nostalgia strikes the old owner, as it so often does. Honestly though, it just seems like a lot of gamers just can't resist buying LITERALLY EVERYTHING for fear of missing out on some experience or achievement or not being called 'real gamers'. News flash, it won't kill you to not fund literally every gaming company out there guys. Hell, watch a good let's play and you'll get as much out of it with a lot less frustration a lot of the time. Buy what you know will be fun, invest in some new experiences or worthy indie titles that catch your eye, and realize life is much too short to get meaningful interaction out of every damn game out there when you have an actual life to live.

Perpetual Noob

Great points and video again Jim. 😃 Also, good luck with the move ans the wrestling match this weekend. 🙂

Jason Youngberg

I'm convinced boycotts don't work period. In video games, it's because people buy it anyway. But otherwise, it's still ineffective because the whole idea of a boycott is to get someone at the business to admit they made a mistake. That's not going to happen with corporations these days. When you're rich, personal responsibility is for the other guy. At most you'll get a golden parachute and a new job that pays more. They don't even have to admit they messed up, just blame whatever scapegoat is convenient (the economy, China, liberals, etc) and suddenly you become a victim. What makes video games different you have limited obvious choices. If you want to boycott Chef Boyardee you have a dozen other options that taste just as good (granted, half those options are still owned by Conagra Brands but you won't know by looking on the can). But if you want a game like Call of Duty and just as good, we'll you can be SoL.

Anonymous

I've always seen the problem of gamer boycotts as being that not buying the new installment of your canon cuts you from the community. The memes, the shared experience, etc. Anyone passionate enough about a franchise to want to push for change is likely going to feel very isolated not doing what the fandom is doing. I think this is particularly intense with gaming, far more so than with movie franchises and the like.

Anonymous

I reckon that negativity about [insert defective product here] within the community can be much more effective than a boycott, because the latter cuts you off from the community rather than rallying it (like what Dorkvania mentioned). But it also depend on how the company interacts with their fans. In the past, I feel at least, Blizzard has been good with that as they had good communicators, last felt perhaps with Diablo 3's turnaround after the launch went ker-splat. But not anymore, WC3 Reforged, Blitz Chung, Diablo Mobile and the closest real life "We're sorry"-Meme I have ever seen shows in which direction they went (off the deep end). Sad, so sad. I don't love Pokemon, but I like it. I didn't mind Dexit, really, I never play long enough to "catch them all", anyway. Was shitty for those who like to dig deeper, but, hey, it is a lot of work to overhaul more than 800 pokemon... And I like what they did with Sun & Moon, at least a little shake up. So, yeah, I bought Shield, it was fine for a while. Got a bit miffed they went back to the old Gym battle routines, and the Dynamax was... meh... then all the stuff about how they actually did not update too many models, or animations, or mechanics, - or anything, really - started to pop up and become painfully apparent at about 75% through the game, when the final stretch is just 15 battles stuck together with duct tape and a garland of dragon scales dipped in pink poison (that's a drag name, the whole thing) as your end boss. But that's not the worst. It's not really news, but the fighting in Pokemon is shit, utter garbage. In 2020! But for Pokemon it's still the 90s. So, I fought and caught the Dragon Poison Garland and play through the aftermath stuff with the Legendary Pokemons, and finally you get to battle that obnoxious little Hop for one last time - and he single hits every motherloving last one of my Pokemons - because I bought the wrong edition of the game apparently. That's rather frustrating - but at least I can empathize with what I done to all the NPCs now, maybe that's a lesson Pokemon wants to teach us? Maybe not. But that's also not the worst. Then the announcement for the DLC, Home and surrounding that drop. Guess what, we found a few polygons lying on the floor and superglued them together and you can have your old favorite Pokemon back. That's 30 bucks, mate! But not all of them, maybe stick around for 2021 for that. Oh, we also have your old Pokemon, you want your old Pokemon on the Switch? That's 16 bucks. (Oh, and 20 for the Switch Online if you don't have that.) Honestly, I don't care too much about that for myself. But, man, that's bad...

Kraken

It's a lot easier to make boycotts work at a local level. If you get a group of people to meet and say "we're not going to eat at this restaurant because they do x", you've met those people, and they'll probably at least feel sheepish if their car is seen in that restaurant's parking lot or if they're seen walking out with a doggie bag. It's much harder to get people spread across a large country (or the world) who don't actually know each other to agree not to purchase something that's merely a couple of clicks away. (One more reason to resent the death of brick-and-mortar mercantile, I guess.) That said, it seems like it would only take one visible and halfway successful boycott to give the word back some teeth. But it's not as simple as a #hashtag; you cannot start with the idea of a boycott and expect others to follow suit. Social media is chockablock with pompously "righteous" people who don't do a damn thing aside from making big, public shows of their own stridency. You would need people to offer up something more concrete than the ephemeral promise of a pseudonym. People nod their heads, or sign a petition, and then totally forget about it. If you're not willing to do the work of reminding people and holding them accountable for following through, yelling "boycott" (or #boycott) until you're blue in the face just makes you blue in the face. All that said, I can't help but hope that the pressure on Blizzard continues. They've had three big mis-steps in a year, and if it doesn't cost them anything, that's a far clearer message. I can't speak for anyone else, but I can live without Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2.