• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    … if your standard for the term is that literally nobody buys it, boycotts do not exist.

    If not, yes they’ve obviously happened, including over this specific issue, and even the biggest and loudest only dented the obscene profits from doing this shit.

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      4 months ago

      My standard would be having enough people behind it to actually make a difference and not just a handful of angry people on a forum who may or may not actually stick to their guns.

      Boycotts have worked for things. But only when they had enough people actually boycotting the thing that it hurt someone’s bottom line. I’ve not seen this happen with any video games since the crash of '82.

      With a game like GTA, that at one point was the most sold video game in history, you’re gonna need a lot more people on board with a boycott than the entirety of Reddit to actually make a dent.