This post is somewhat inspired by a recent post in this same community called “Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content?”

I imagine “Reddit” will be a common answer. (And it’s one of my answers.)

Another of my answers is “Hasbro.” First Wizards of the Coast (a Hasbro subsidiary) tried to revoke an irrevokable license and screw over basically all 3rd-party publishers of D&D content, then they sent literal mercinaries to threaten one of their customers over an order mixup that wasn’t even the customer’s fault. D&D: Honor Among Thieves and the latest Transformers look really good, but those are within the scope of my boycott, so I won’t be seeing those any time soon.

Third, Microsoft. (Apple too, but then I’ve never bought any Apple devices in my life, so it hardly qualifies as a boycott.) Just because of their penchant for using devices I own against me in every way they can imagine. And for really predatory business practices.

One boycott that I’ve ended was a boycott of Nintendo. I was pissed that they started marketing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (though it didn’t have a name at the time) before the WiiU came out, prompting me to be an early adopter of the WiiU, and then when they actually released BotW, they dual-released it on WiiU and Switch. I slightly eased my boycott when the unpatchable Fusee Gilee vulnerability for the first batch of Switches was discovered. I wanted to get one of the ones I could hack and run homebrew on before they came out with a model that lacked the vulnerability.

  • Akashic101@feddit.de
    10·
    1 year ago

    A little bit different, but Caseking will never get my business. They have a booth at Gamescom right now where you can race in a simrig and try to get the best time of the day. There is also a time of a pro which you can try to beat, and if you do and are the fastest at the end of the day you get a 200€ discount on Moza Racing.

    Here comes the problem though, they ran the wrong game for more than half a day (AC instead of ACC) and when telling them that with the configuration of the circuit (Nürburgring with the slower chicane as the last to last corner) the time was simply impossible to beat. They just laughed at me and making it look like I had a skill-issue and am simply not good enough to beat the time. When I came back in the last hours they switched over to ACC but were driving a wrong, slower car making the challenge still not beatable. I tried to tell them this once again but they continued to just laugh and ignore me. If you ask me they dont want anybody to win the coupon and are just ripping people off