Have you ever let the actions of a company prevent you from buying a game or purchasing from them?

[twilitfalchion]

Certainly, most modern game companies are large, influential corporations that offer products to sizable markets. And as such, for one reason or another, they may make decisions that are either ethically questionable or just scummy in general.

This is a fairly broad question, but has a company doing something like this ever prevented you from being a consumer of their products? Or are you of the opinion that one person's influence in either buying or not buying a product has no influence on a company's actions, and said company is therefore fine to purchase from?

 

[thePlinko]

Yeah, blizzard and EA to be specific.

EA for the same reasons as everyone else

But my computer programming teacher in High school worked full time as a dev at blizzard. I’ve seen personally how their crappy business practices affect people, that in addition to how the betray basic human rights (Hong Kong) for extra cash means they aren’t getting a single penny from me.

 

[Chevywolf30]

What all exactly did Blizzard do?

 

[MapelSerup]

What all exactly did Blizzard do?

One of America’s biggest gaming companies is acting as China’s censor

Activision Blizzard punished a pro player for speaking out on behalf of Hong Kong. This should be unacceptable.

www.vox.com

Most games by immoral companies I’m unlikely to purchase anyways. With EA it’d depend on the game, but I’m pretty confident I won’t ever purchase from Blizzard. Luckily, it’s easy to avoid things like these in the video game industry.

 

[Quin]

Not from a company in general, I mostly look at single games. If they have scummy things in them, I won't buy them. You miss out on supporting good dev teams and just miss out on good games in general if you ignore a whole company for their practices, Even EA has that good jedi game I wouldn't have wanted to miss out on.

 

[mαrkαsscoρ]

Not from a company in general, I mostly look at single games. If they have scummy things in them, I won't buy them. You miss out on supporting good dev teams and just miss out on good games in general if you ignore a whole company for their practices, Even EA has that good jedi game I wouldn't have wanted to miss out on.

I mean, you can just get them used if they're not digital only

 

[Bowsette Plus-Ultra]

I was interested in purchasing Diablo 3, but then Blizzard had to go and do some ****ty things on behalf of China. Unlike many internet white knights, I have held to that stance of not putting any money into Blizzard games.

 

[Skull_Kid]

EA cause they are terrible, tbh

 

[Dizzi]

umm it depends on what the thing was like i hate microsofts gaming department for RareWares death.....

 

[A Link In Time]

I was interested in checking out the new Star Wars Battlefront games as I have a lot of nostalgia for the old ones and I wanted to play the larger battles of these new games online but all of the lootboxes and microtransactions turned me off. Supposedly it's gotten better now but I still can't justify buying those games.

 

[Mikey the Moblin]

won't buy blizzard games
I still support riot even though it's fully owned by tencent, but for the most part riot is able to do its own thing in america while tencent controls the large market over in china- a couple years ago riot was finally able to implement server differences so we can still have things like spooky scary skeletons and graves' cigar

other than that I'll buy games that look good even if the company doesn't look all that great
if the company is great I'll buy the game even if the game doesn't look good (@DS2)

 

[TheGreatCthulhu]

EA and Blizzard for the reasons that everyone laid out here.