Azabael wrote:You choose to boycott. Others don't. And it actually is important what their reasons are. ie, I play it because I wanted a game to play with one mate of me. We bought it together. We have fun together. That is my goal. That is my reason for not boycotting.
Your goal is fair, your reasons are not justified. You have no idea how good the game is before you buy it, in fact you have reasons to not buy it. Yet you pursue. It is ridiculous to say you bought the game on rational grounds, the grounds you refer to as your standards. Unless you bought your game yesterday, after countless reviews had been published and thousands had praised it, you bought it on the illogical idea that it would be good despite those negative qualities. You bought it because of faith in a company. Your reason for buying was irrational, therefore your perspective is clouded in irrationality, making it void in any debate.
Azabael wrote:You have to respect that too, as much as I respect the fact you do boycott the game. I'm not sacrafising the joy I'm having with a mate, so we MIGHT (big question mark) have another game next time. So you can't expect from people like me to support you in the boycott because the both of us have different standards.
Technically I do not have to respect your decision and I don't. It isn't because I don't hold respect for you, nor do I have a lack of respect for anyone on these forums as far as I can think of. That doesn't mean, however, that I instantaneously respect your judgment. In this instance, as stated above, your view is founded on the buying of the game which occurred before sufficient reviews, no personal experience, and grounds to indicate the game would be taking a negative path.
Azabael wrote:So yes, like you say, in this way I support the developer with money by buying the game. But I am not wasting my money, as already mentioned.
Agreed, as mentioned above. I threw out the word hastily because I assumed everyone was mature enough to understand the point I was getting at, disregarding a meaningless word which had nothing to do with my actual point. I assumed everyone had read at least a few of my walls of text and understood, obviously my assumptions were founded on false grounds.
Azabael wrote:But the fact that I harm you and your man next door by buying the game doesn't bother me at all. That would make no sense.
It makes perfect sense. In buying the game you are supporting the degradation of PC gaming. Since I (and in this scenario the man who lives next door) play PC games, you are supporting harmful action towards our hobby, ruining an activity in which we partake and therefore harming us. The fact that it doesn't bother you just implies you are incredibly selfish.
Azabael wrote:And your state that I'm giving money to a group responsible for harming each and every one of us, is therefore also not true.
There is no statement above to connect this sentence in with the rest. Regardless, I have proven in countless other posts, not through opinion or biased ill founded logic, but solid historical evidence and fundamental economics that IW is inevitably harming PC gaming. If you don't understand that deduction, go back and read some of my previous posts, because there's no point in going through that cyclical argument again.
Azabael wrote:You should understand my reasoning.
I understand your reasoning perfectly, you want to play a game with friends because it is fun. The problem with this is you care only about the fun you have now, not the long term, platform encompassing consequences of your actions.
Azabael wrote:And if you're not just here to get your right, you might even understand why I all say this.
Nice job throwing in that little insult there, was very elegant. Interestingly, if you had read any of my posts you might have noticed that I'm not here to "get my right", rather I am here (in this conversation) to try and preserve the standard of gaming as it was pre-MW2 against all odds.
Azabael wrote:Because when I had the opportunity to choose between dedicated or no dedicated servers, I'd pick dedicated. But my standerds keep me from boycotting. Make the best of the situation. I have better things to do in life than doing a, for me, meaningless boycott.
So you just have low standards? Okay. All boycotts are meaningless if no one supports them, hence me trying to gain support for it
Azabael wrote:Like, you know, having fun.
I see what you did there, clever. Well, enough of this. I'm off to play my
incredibly fun new game L4D2 with some friends.