MW2 Boycott successful?

Regardless of whether you think the boycott was stupid or not, the thing is, I believe that group was a public group at the time the pic was taken, so basically anyone can join at the click of a button. I'm sure plenty of people who joined did so just to leave abusive messages to those who were really interested in forming a boycott group. The exact same thing happened with the L4D2 boycott group on steam where people were joining just to post a message saying how dumb the boycott was.

Still, wouldn't want to let that get in the way of a funny pic to post around the interwebs to show what a fail the boycott is :rolleyes:

Can't wait for all these features to be re-introduced with MW3 but you have to pay for them. Want dedicated server, sure that'll be £10/month, want mods in the form of new perks, maps, weapons then that'll be a £100/year platinum fee etc.

As funny as it might be to some, I can't help but think we're screwing ourselves here :(
 
Capn' $qu!ff said:
I'm still boycotting it, however seeing as it was a complete failure I shall be ending it when I next head into town.
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So you're not happy with what they've done and you don't support it, but because it didn't have the massive affect that you naievely thought it would, and are too weak willed to stick to your principles because you don't want to be 'left out', you are now going to buy it effectively making the statement you support it and are happy with the changes they've made - thus contributing to the negative effects this will have on the PC/gaming market in the future.

Fantastic attitude /sarcasm
 
Fenris said:
How many times does this have to be posted before people stop giving a crap?

The Boycott was as successful as killing a raging bull with a plastic spork, 90% of the people who signed it were just raging morons who wanted something to be angry about and had no real intention of following through with it.


4.7 Million copies sold in 24 hours, the biggest entertainment launch in history, it's safe to say the boycott was a completely and utter failure.
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The 4.7 million copies wasn't for the pc though it was across all systems, the boycott was only ever for the pc so you can't really say until the release the pc only figures.
 
Deific said:
So you're not happy with what they've done and you don't support it, but because it didn't have the massive affect that you naievely thought it would, and are too weak willed to stick to your principles because you don't want to be 'left out', you are now going to buy it effectively making the statement you support it and are happy with the changes they've made - thus contributing to the negative effects this will have on the PC/gaming market in the future.

Fantastic attitude /sarcasm
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Indeed, lack of will power shown on these forums is shocking. I didn't buy MW2, and I never will, purely on principle.
 
ljt said:
Indeed, lack of will power shown on these forums is shocking. I didn't buy MW2, and I never will, purely on principle.
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In some ways willpower shouldn't come into it - the changes they've made have made me just not want the game. I'm not sitting here having to resist running into town or clicking buy in Steam.

If people are that deperate for the game in spite of what has been done to it, i'd question whether they really understood what the boycott was for in the first place.
 
Fenris said:
It already has the biggest entertainment launch in history with 4.7 million copies sold in 24 hours.

Slightly better than "alright".
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Yes, but that includes console sales, only the PC market was involved in the boycott so it's a bit unfair.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the only time I will buy the game is if they include dedi servers in a future patch, until then they can stick the game up there very rich arses.
 
jonneymendoza said:
o dear. you really dont have a clue
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The point is, the boycott had no effect what so ever.


Also, to the people who aren't buying MW:2, good for you, actually standing by what you said is commendable, compared to the amount of people who shouted about not buying it and probably never even thought of canceling their pre order.
 
Well the PC sales were said to account for 12% of that figure worldwide, so that'd be about 560,000 copies. The boycott petition reached ~170,000 IIRC but clearly not all of those names will have been genuine, nor will all of them have abstained.

From this we can see two things:
1 - It probably only made a mild difference to PC sales at best
2 - Even if no one had bought it on PC, the consoles sales still outperform the PC so massively that it wouldn't have made a huge difference anyway, just a small dent in profits. It would still have been the fastest selling game in history even if no one had bought it on PC.
 
The whole point of a boycott is to never buy the product, some people seem to think that resisting 1 day and buying it the next is boycotting...
 
I'am pretty sure most people misunderstood the boycott, and signed it for the wrong reasons. They thought because of the lack of dedicated servers it was going to be worse than cod 4, when that simply isn't a fact it's just opinion. For the vast majority IW.net is fine, and the matchmaking can even be a plus. I even saw a lot of comments on here, and around the net that indicated that it would be an unplayable mess! Which is ridiculous, it's a very playable and high scoring game. It is simply much more limited that other online shooters. However these limitations only matter to those that are hardcore. So as soon as people heard it was a great game, and played fine (which it always was going to) they were like "Oh so no point boycotting then".

You basically had a situation with a lot of "sheep" boycotting, because it was the cool thing to do if you classed yourself as a hardcore gamer. I'd be willing to bet that only a small minority knew the real reason for the boycott.
 
Goldfingers said:
I'am pretty sure most people misunderstood the boycott, and signed it for the wrong reasons. They thought because of the lack of dedicated servers it was going to be worse than cod 4, when that simply isn't a fact it's just opinion. For the vast majority IW.net is fine, and the matchmaking can even be a plus. I even saw a lot of comments on here, and around the net that indicated that it would be an unplayable mess! Which is ridiculous, it's a very playable and high scoring game. It is simply much more limited that other online shooters. However these limitations only matter to those that are hardcore. So as soon as people heard it was a great game, and played fine (which it always was going to) they were like "Oh so no point boycotting then".

You basically had a situation with a lot of "sheep" boycotting, because it was the cool thing to do if you classed yourself as a hardcore gamer. I'd be willing to bet that only a small minority knew the real reason for the boycott.
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There are also those for whom at least part of the boycott is due to the attitude presented by Activision and IW and the general direction this is pushing the industry in.
 
not successful is the answer but this pic has been posted like 5 times now lol
i boycotted mw2 then after a week or so realised no one is bothering with cod4 so i brought iwnet is great for pub no good for competitive play but im sure it will be sorted
 
The original point of the boycott was to stop sales but obviously IW did not much care about PC sales and it was a typical internet boycott, no real interest past the next 5 mins. However No one can say if its been successful till the end of the year and see if theyve hit their sales target of 11-13 million copies. Im quietly hopeful an impact from lost PC sales will be felt, if not because of the boycott then because of the furore surrounding it. If they drop even 5% of sales thats a lot of cash. we'll see.

Anyway the main bright spot for me is that I think companies that might have been thinking of going down this route, and who depend on the PC market a lot more than IW, will stop and think now and weigh up the cost of just having dedi servers in.
 
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