Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam

• overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And typically the boycotters weren’t even the sort of people who were buying a switch 2 to begin with. Maybe there’s a subsection of them that will result in some loss of sales but it would be in the fraction of a percent. There’s no surprise to me when gamer boycotts fail.

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• ysjet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s also just a substantial number of people that were just astroturfers, I think.

  There’s been a LOT of crazy attacks on the switch 2 to try to ‘justify’ a boycott. I think my two favorite was that the gamechat button noise when you hit is actually saying saying a slur, or maybe that the rumble turns off after a while not to protect your hands from the rumble (which has been found to be bad for you), but because Nintendo cheaped out on a rumble motor that overheated too easily.

  The switch 2 joycons don’t have a rumble motor. Like, it’s a whole thing they’re super proud of, because it’s so precise they just use the rumble really fast to play music instead of having a speaker.

  Honestly, the whole idea of trying to boycott nintendo has pretty much always been over astroturfed bullshit.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nintendo gives us so many legitimate reasons to not want to give them money. Who do you think would be behind astroturfing? To my knowledge, it doesn’t usually come in the form of being against one company but in being against a piece of legislation or regulation. People on Lemmy are probably just predisposed to being willing to go against the mainstream when it starts turning shit, or else we’d still be on reddit.

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    • ysjet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So what are those reasons, that make you think people should boycott Nintendo and not other companies, then?

      Because I suspect most of them are not as legitimate as you might be thinking, and now I’m curious.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        • They put their money towards suing the shit out of emulation projects and removing ROM sites.
        • This is compounded by the fact that they won’t even sell you those ROMs anymore. They only make them available to rent in perpetuity. People are rightly skeptical of a future where Microsoft only makes their games available via Game Pass rather than it just being an economical option, but Nintendo is already doing the thing that people are afraid of.
        • They’re the last holdout that won’t put their games on PC in an era where console exclusivity doesn’t make sense anymore. There’s no reason to play Zelda at 20 FPS and 360p when, at the time of release, my PC was already quite capable of running the game at acceptable resolutions and frame rates. This is just willfully selling people an inferior product when they have the ability to deliver a better one. Then they have the gall to charge their customers, who already paid $70, even more for an upgrade to finally run those games at acceptable performance on their next console. And in case you think this is me justifying piracy, I didn’t pirate the game; I didn’t play it at all.
        • I’m a competitive fighting game player, and the way they fight against their own fans for trying to compete in Smash Bros. is atrocious.

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