Ofcourse they don't. I remember another poll for another supposed
controversial game and it got locked with the majority being not to do anything against it because a game should be judged on its quality. I wish i still had post somewhere.
When i saw that i knew
The Names are just artificially trying to push the discussion in a certain direction. Even when that means the majority of voted people does not care (Nor will it affect sales)
Poll results, by the way:
Only 6.6% (out of 2000+ votes) would never buy another Atlus title again. Other percentages wouldn't buy in specific situations (like Hashino games for example, at 12.6%. Or not just buying Catherine itself at 22%). 56% will continue to purchase without issue.
So basically the majority has no issues with this (58.3% would buy the game) and exactly 400 people (Or 19.2% of the vote) wouldn't buy either another Atlus game or a game with Hashino. And these are the most relevant numbers since those are directly related to the question. The other results are more generic reasons not related to the controversy (Except the bottom one, ofcourse) 400 people.
Out of 2089 people.
Its concerning that almost 20% breaks off a purchase like this, but almost 60% would purchase. All in all, this
pull ERA thinks it has is effectively rather meaningless.
Besides that, who of the 19.2% is actually going to uphold their promise? You can't really verify this as a forum so its easy to claim you won't buy another Atlus or Hashino game and then buy it silently anyways.
Indirectly, with this post i am contributing to transgender awareness so ERA should be proud, right?