If you continue to dumb down the game, you will lose half your player base

[s1mulacrum]

If every person who cried "shame on X company" stuck to their guns and boycotted their products, they'd probably starve to death or live in a house with absolutely nothing in it. The business world is a shitty fucked up place and no amount of crying will ever fix it. Best to learn to live with it.

Or maybe the world would be a better place and the market would be forced to adapt. When people left WoW en masse, all of a sudden Blizzard was willing to allow cross-faction: a thing they said they would never do. How do you think labor laws happened?

[Kyrj]

Or maybe the world would be a better place and the market would be forced to adapt.

Pfffhahahahahahahaha

Yeah, no. You clearly have no idea how shitty the business world really is. They will say whatever and do whatever to stay in business and earn a buck.

[s1mulacrum]

Pfffhahahahahahahaha

Yeah, no. You clearly have no idea how shitty the business world really is. They will say whatever and do whatever to stay in business and earn a buck.

You should read my response again...

I agree they will do w/e they can for a buck: that's my whole point. If you put them in a position where their consumers are leaving b/c they aren't making specific changes, they lose money until they either cave or find another solution. I understand your frustration with how terrible the incentives in the business world are, and I agree, but your assertion is factually and historically inaccurate. Collective bargaining, boycotts, and protests are incredibly powerful tools when wielded proficiently (or sometimes there are latent effects from seemingly unrelated movements, like the WoW exodus).