A good series ruined (Gaming)

by kidtsunami , Atlanta, GA, Thursday, August 25, 2016, 13:28 (3012 days ago) @ Schedonnardus

No. Paying for micro transactions is telling them you like and want micro transactions. If anything, the intelligent move here is to buy and enjoy the game and spend zero dollars on the micro transactions. If we all did that, good games would be properly rewarded while micro transactions would be properly discouraged.

if you spend zero dollars on their game, that sends a much bigger message than spending $60 dollars on it.

Not really because you not buying it could be because you...:

• don't have the money to pay the base price
  
• don't know about the Deus Ex brand (haven't been advertised/marketed to effectively)
  
• don't have the right system to play it at the moment (as I've moved around the world I've missed out on some games when I was without a console)
  
• don't care about the modern version of the Deus Ex series (me)
  
• want to show your displeasure about the color grading of the game
  
• want to show your displeasure about the handling of bosses in the first game
  
• want to show your displeasure about the micro-transactions

And it is super hard to figure out which of those it is when you don't even show up as a possible data point.

And if you do somehow manage to organize the boycott to become some data points, it may not show what you want it to.