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When gamers organize, usually the press will mysteriously start making up a barrel of salacious lies about them. Some subset of the public then gets a nasty imp
by microcolonel 9y ago
When gamers organize, usually the press will mysteriously start making up a barrel of salacious lies about them. Some subset of the public then gets a nasty impression of them, and life goes on. This time, something of an organized boycott (by way of large numbers of people realizing that to purchase the game or its DLC is to be complicit in EA's merchandising choices) it really hit EA's bottom line, so they'll say whatever they can to discredit and play down the consumer's opinion of their product and practices.
- umanwizard 9y agoHow do you know if it hit their bottom line or not, until their earnings report comes out?
- microcolonel 9y agoThey received so many returns that they removed the return page from their website, to force their customers to request returns over their rather poor telephone call centre. They then went on damage control, disabled (until this cools down) some of the features which were upsetting customers, and made sure everyone knew about it.
- umanwizard 9y agoNone of which actually proves that it meaningfully affected their revenue.
- deadlocked 9y agoThis is nonsensical. In the first instance, all of the coverage at sites like Waypoint, Polygon, RPS and so on has been critical of EA's choices vis-á-vis Battlefront II. In the second, how can the press make up "salacious lies" about a demographic as varied and numerous as gamers?
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoYou're assuming that the games media is actually defending EA, which isn't actually true as far as I can tell.