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Have you ever stopped supporting a developer from some action they did?

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Or any other reason? And if not, what would it take for a developer to stop getting your support?

I don't think I've done this yet, but for example I know that I would never get anything that has to do with that Phil Fish guy just because his attitude is freaking insufferable.
 
I stopped buying Out of the Park baseball for a couple of years after their social media guy was a dick to me.
 
I quit buying Ubisoft games when they went super streamlined, annualized, full priced and DLC packed and infested with uPlay and shit PC versions.

Ubisoft recently announced Ubi Kiev would be handling their ports ahead of time and we know their ports perform like shit.

The only Ubisoft game I own is Rayman Legends and probably Rocksmith at some point, because everything else has turned to shit.
 
No, i never look at the "actions" that people behind entertainment products do, i enjoy plenty of Roman Polanski movies, despite his less than admirable past, i think Sean Penn is a great actor despite beating the shit out of Madonna etc.


At the end of the day i want to enjoy myself with the product i purchase, what goes behind the scenes is not something i have the time to investigate or care about. I am sure every product made by a group of people has had one bad apple that did something despicable. I cant sit here and research all that.

Wanting to be entertained on this pointless existence of ours, should not be work.
 
I stop supporting any developer who gets caught up in a mess of anti-consumer policies, day 1 DLC, awful PC ports, and stuff like that.

Phil Fish is one guy with some strong opinions, sometimes leading him to say something stupid. The outrage surrounding him is ridiculous and he worked on one of the best games of 2012. He deserves any money he gets.
 
Gearbox over all the bullshit they pulled the past few years. I never started supporting them to begin with, but I have no intention of buying their products now. Same boat with EA.
 
My wife has bought every assassins creed game but says she's done with the series thanks to Ubisoft's "females are too difficult" bullshit.

I'm not going to buy any EA game day one ever again, and never at full price. due to BF4/SimCity. they're never getting that trust back.
 
No, I always come back for more.

My troubles with the launch 360s, constant fees for up sell accessories, live paywalls, and the revision having HDMI and WiFi was the closest I've come to taking a hard stance.

I bet I'll cave to play halo 1 online.
 
A friend of mine won't buy Bethesda games after how badly they treated the Star Trek license. I bitch about EA as much as anyone but I still buy their games, I'm weak like that
 
I refuse to give Phil Fish money, even down to turning down the slider on the humble bundle Fez was in.

On the other hand, I have no trouble supporting companies that also go the extra mile.

Devolver Digital is an example of this, they've been awesome in our interactions in the past, and will impulse buy alot of their stuff because of it.
 
never conciously. If i ever stop supporting a developer, is more a case of fatigue or lack of interest in what they are doing for now. But if they make something that interests me, i would be back on track
 
Maxis.

They gave me hours of entertainment with their Sim games (Sims 1, City 2000/3000, Tower, Farm), but with the neutering/DRMing of Spore and the more recent SimCity debacle, coupled with what the Sims has turned into, I've completely lost interest in ever buying a game from them again.
 
Not a developer, but a console manufacturer, Microsoft.

The RRoD fiasco, Microsoft executives' and PR people's flippant attitude towards it at the beginning, and just thinking how the company could put out such a failure-prone system turned our family off the brand. It didn't help that Microsoft and the Xbox brand went from tons of variety to mostly shooters and racers, it seemed.
 
Never buying a new gran turismo game again. Second hand only. Tired of Yamauchi's lack of communication, sense of priorities and offhandedness.
 
Epic - Gears of War 3

Holding the dedicated servers hostage unless you bought the DLC/Season pass. Fuck that. Stopped playing the game, didn't buy any of the DLC, and didn't buy Judgement either.
 
i don't know if its eligible but i stopped supporting AMD/ATI after my x1950pro became legacy 3 years after it's release... I bought the damn card in 2007 and it was amazing but in 2010 they stopped supporting it for some reason... As a result i couldn't play newer games that my card could easily handle, like Limbo, Clash of Heroes, South Park etc.

Meanwhile, a friend of mine has an inferior and older NVIDIA card which is still supported and he could play all these games just fine. So, bye bye AMD.
 
Oh, Square-Enix, a long time ago. I'm not even sure what fuck-up # it was. I was the biggest fanboy growing up, and somewhere along the lines I said "Y'know what? Fuck this company."

Waiting on FFXV to make my final decision on the company.
 
nkarafo said:
i don't know if its eligible but i stopped supporting AMD/ATI after my x1950pro became legacy 3 years after it's release... I bought the damn card in 2007 and it was amazing but in 2010 they stopped supporting it for some reason... As a result i couldn't play newer games that my card could easily handle, like Limbo, Clash of Heroes, South Park etc.

Meanwhile, a friend of mine has an inferior and older NVIDIA card which is still supported and he could play all these games just fine. So, bye bye AMD.
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This happened to me with the Voodoo 5 I bought back in 2000. Spent 300 quid on it and less than 2 years later I went to play Jedi Knight 2 and it didn't support it.
 
Mass Effect said:
Epic - Gears of War 3

Holding the dedicated servers hostage unless you bought the DLC/Season pass. Fuck that. Stopped playing the game, didn't buy any of the DLC, and didn't buy Judgement either.
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There were dedicated servers available if you had the free DLC (Booster map pack). I don't blame them, they were probably pretty expensive back then. To be even more fair, the season pass went on sale somewhat recurringly, I got it for $20 the year if came out.
 
Capcom after Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 being barebones for the Ultimate version and then the SFxT mess of a launch. Its sad to because I wanted to play as Elana so bad and I see SFxT for less than $15 and still won't buy it. I bough Asura's Wrath but otherwise nothing. And I probably won't get Ultra either unless its free eventually on PSN like arcade edition.
 
I stopped buying every Squaresoft/Enix game when their quality and variety took a dive if that counts.

Other than that, no. Most of the companies that do shady stuff publicly do not make games I like usually.
 
EA - after the last 2 Battlefields I'm done supporting DICE and EA. I didn't really buy other EA games often though.
 
Companies/Developers I don't buy games from are EA, Ubisoft, Gearbox, Bethesda and Phil Fish (this is a person but whatever).

Pretty much everything these people have made usually suck so it works out in the end. Will be grabbing FEZ for free this month but I'm not sure if I'll actually play it.
 
I stopped buying anything put out by EA for a few years after how they refused to support Sega with the Dreamcast, i eventually relented though thanks to them buying Criterion and Burnout.
 
I feel like a broken record lately, but Gearbox. Borderlands was a lucky fluke. The rest of their games are garbage save Brothers in Arms. That studio is showing it's true colors in these last few years.
 
I was suuuuuuuper close to giving up on SNKP after they took a FUCKING VACATION instead of patching KoF XII into a playable state at launch. When they finally did release a patch it only helped the visual lag and didn't really fix the netcode. Then they decided to release fucking soundtrack DLC for $5 a pop instead of providing actual content. It was so bad that Ignition dropped them almost immediately. I was so fucking pissed beyond belief...luckily KOF XIII was amazing enough to change my mind.
 
I think EA is the only one.

Back in the day they were an amazing company. Many, if not the majority, of my favorites from the 16bit era were published by EA. As an example Starflight on the Genesis was published by EA!! A game that was literally unlike anything else at the time, and was undoubtedly decades ahead of its time.

It wasn't any single action they did. They started off high enough that I think almost anything was forgivable, but it was just this gradual and consistent progression of slowly going from a well respected enthusiast publisher to a company that comes off as being operated by people who couldn't really care less about games and would do anything and screw over anybody if they thought they could earn a buck doing it.

For the handful of their games I have any interest left in (the most recent was Mass Effect 2) I make sure to keep them out of the loop and simply purchase used gold/platinum/elite/shove-all-the-dlc-into-the-box-too editions.
 
Shinji Mikami and Capcom, when they abandoned the original Resident Evil fanbase by making REmake GC exclusive.
 
Battlefield 3 was my last purchase from EA DICE because it was clear by that point they were catering to a different audience than the veteran BF players.
 
So far, none. But depending on DRM and DLC plans, I possibly could. Haven't had to so far though.

Bethesdas games have worked very well for me on PC; so I'll keep buying those though.
I don't get worked up by developers being rude that much, so I bought, played and beat Fez, and am glad that I did, because it's a really good and unique game.

As for Alien: Colonial Marines, people should have seen that trainwreck coming before buying it

When it's Ubisoft, I'm hesitant to buy their games because of uPlay, but I did buy Valiant Hearts.

EA are probably the closest to a boycott from me, because of how they have handled old IP's, and how BF3 and BF4 have turned out.
 
It would need to something serious, maybe genocide or something, that would stop me buying a game I was interested in.
 
I stopped supporting Peter Molyneux stuff after Fable 1. He had me extremely hyped for it, then was extremely disappointed.

Never really bought another Lionhead product after that, since he still had a habit of overhyping his projects.
 
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