Talk:Boycott/@comment-5738001-20130801215010

I understand the reason behind the idea for the boycott - to push forward as a united front the desire and even need for Real Change to be pushed out by Drecom (and I discovered this boycott as a returning user too late into the Raid to participate so I didn't) - but I don't get the reason why the boycott couldn't wait until the people who want/desire/'need' to get their special whatever cards got them so they could fully participate instead of doing this, "Yes, I am boycotting, but no, I am still participating under special guidelines," business.

What's the whole purpose of a boycott if there are exceptions to the rule especially given the fact that these same players are quite possibly the same players who could and maybe would put money into the system to help themselves finish those card sets to begin with?

Money is what ultimately hurts a business the hardest and the fastest as it's literal results that impact their financial viability; people can exit someplace in a mass exodus, but if the payers - no matter how few or how many - keep paying (and in this game, like most other TCGs and similar, it ultimately boils down to pay-to-win and/or pay-to-get-the-best-stuff), the business continues to get its funding and will have little incentive to push changes that may - in the short term - 'lose' them some money.

Yes, losing players in general will eventually = losing business, but if the paying players - especially high paying players - aren't boycotting, then losing all the other players except the paying players = the paying players having less overall competition to tend with and it will be a paying player vs paying player showdown which just may = business getting MORE money.

That said, though I missed this boycott (hadn't been playing for months and so was out of the loop and didn't bother to think about looking for a wiki about this game until I had already re-started playing and by then, Raid had already begun and I had already started playing), I did make my own vow to not monetarily contribute towards the game and I will send them a letter expressing my my thoughts and include with it the support ticket.

Whatever pots I've popped have all been from my own private collection stockpiled up from when I first started some time ago before I quit the game.