JohnnyCanuck

So review bomb and make it worse?

These "protests" do nothing against the execs and their Ferraris.

They directly harm the developers though.

Review bombing is not "stating your opinion". It's malicious.

(Edit to add: one of the big reasons for crunch is trying to squeeze work out of a fixed amount of money, which is the whole point of this. Saying there shouldn't be crunch is irrelevant.)

You're all going to downvote me for this, but review bombing them and calling for boycotts because they raised their prices is fucking bullshit.

The worst part of this is that this is directly from the "fans" of the game who will spend hundreds of hours playing this thing and yet see no value in the work by the developers. If it's too expensive for you, don't buy it and move on. Get over yourselves.

(and don't come in here and say some bullshit about it just being DL-fucking-C. It still takes work, and it still has value or you wouldn't be whining so much about wanting it so bad.)

(and to be perfectly clear, as you'll probably tell from below, I was a game developer, but I wasn't a dev on this game. I did, however, work on a similarly niche fan-base game and did many crunches and DLCs)

As a group, you'll lament the treatment of developers (the people) and how they shouldn't be laid off, and shouldn't be overworked, and they should hire more QA, and studios shouldn't be closing blah blah fucking blah.

Then you'll all turn around and scream at those same developers because there are bugs, and the game isn't what you wanted, and you'll call them lazy, and incompetent and you'll tell them they don't deserve to live or at the very least even have that overworked, underpaid job they've toiled at for the past x years.

Then the Developers (the business) will do something like (jeebus forbid) raise their prices, trying to make enough money to hire more developers to make better games, or pay their workers so they're not underpaid, or hire more so they don't have to overwork the rest, or as is happening more and more, avoid shutting down completely.

I wish every gamer had to work through crunch on at least one game (or even DLC) and see the amount of work and passion and skill goes into making games. Because right now, you (as a group) seem to think there's no value in the work to make that product you brag about spending hundreds of hours playing. Go get a job in the game industry, if it's so easy, so you can see the value in the product (and afford to buy it, or at least know not to be a yappy little bitch about the price.)