They’d work if people would commit to a full, indefinite boycott until demands are met. This “one week boycott” shit is controlled opposition pushing a narrative that a one week boycott is an appropriate response to something like this.
Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As much as Sony is a dick ass company, these boycots are cringy as fuck and never achieve anything.
Dookieman12@piefed.social 1 day ago
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This one did earlier this month.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I feel like I should add while yes they removed the microtransaction, they did the absolute bare minimum they had to do.
I also feel like this type of boycott doesn’t match that type, the one you linked was a permanent boycott until the changes were done, not a week long one. People were straight refusing to buy it period till it was fixed, and people who did buy it was review bombing it.
For clarification: The issue was they implemented a massive XP grind that was reliant on you spending money to level your coach. At the same time they had removed the ability to make it easier to obtain the XP. They removed the microtransactions as a whole for that mode, and readded the previous games XP slider but removed the fastest mode and kept only a 1.5x mode, and didn’t rebalance anything else in the game, so you still have a game that was intentionally geared torward’s someone spending money to level, just without the ability to actually spend money to level. I’m sure some exec intentionally did that expecting people would complain and they could use it as a potential avenue to readd the transactions again as a “see we listen to our community”
I personally do think a boycott on sony will eventually do something, but a week long one like this, isn’t going to do anything meaningful.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, I don’t think the weeklong one will accomplish anything either, but I often see people talk themselves out of individual action because they can’t control other people’s actions. If we all stop doing that, it’s called collective action, and it works.