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Re:The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history by deanclatworthy on Monday November 13, 2017 @10:40AM (#15687203)
Nothing is going to change in the gaming community unless people stop buying these kinds of games. I am on my way to sell COD:WWII as I type this comment as the multiplayer maps are so monotonous and yet they expect me to pay the price of the game again to unlock all the other maps in the next few months (season pass). I’ll probably never buy another COD game after this.
Re:The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history by joemi on Monday November 13, 2017 @10:48AM (#15687271)
Selling your copy of the game isn’t doing anything to stop people from buying these types of games.
Re:The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history by guiomie on Monday November 13, 2017 @11:14AM (#15687508)
Not are they monotonous, the game is constantly broken. And they seems to have learnt from that South Park episode about micropayments by putting rewards and sound effects when you get the rewards to trigger the addiction part of your brain.
Re:The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history by 4c2383f5c88e911 on Monday November 13, 2017 @10:45AM (#15687239)
So, nothing will change then? "Vote with your wallet" doesn't work, and never has.
Re:The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history by floofyfloofer on Monday November 13, 2017 @12:59PM (#15688417)
It could work, but it's a lopsided feedback system: EA can't count the number of people who didn't buy their game, they can only count the number of actual purchases. So, voting with your wallet leads to underperforming sales numbers, which they'll rationalize to be based on anything but the insulting ways they try to extract additional money from their players, or the myriad of ways they treat their fan base like idiots.

They learn the wrong lessons, assuming the franchise must be at fault, not the mechanics that make the game loathsome.

Re:The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history by yathern on Monday November 13, 2017 @12:58PM (#15688408)
Why would it not work? It's just that you need enough people to vote :)

I do believe in this case it's not going to work - I don't imagine among gamers there will be a nearly enough boycotters.