S - Stop buying shit!

If we keep lining the pockets of companies that make shitty games, they will keep making shit.

We need to finally stand up and speak out... with our wallets.  Stop spending 60 bucks on a game that you know isn't finished or optimized.  Stop funding companies that continuously let us down year after year or release after release.  Stop buying into the hype and open your eyes!

BF3 might be one of the biggest flops that I've seen in recent history in the FPS genre.  Yes, MW3 was a huge disappointment, but we all knew that it would be.  BF3 hyped the game as a PC experience and then left out features that we desperately needed.  No way to talk to your partner in co-op?  Awful.  Awkward unlocking with guns coming from multiple places AND THEN CHANGING multiple times within a couple months of release?  Poor planning.  Anti-cheat methods not working and servers being flooded with hackers.  Unacceptable.  Many players being wrongly banned due to servers having to apply EXTRA protection from hackers.  Absolute failure.  BF3 might have some great gameplay and some very nice features, but that doesn't excuse it from sliding downhill so quickly.  I was a huge fan of it, but quickly lost interest based on some of these glaring issues.  Hopefully they can fix these in this coming year.

SWToR is another game that has had it's share of issues, especially those that went overlooked in the beta.  When you release an MMO that is so furiously hyped for so many years and it fails to meet even the lowest of expectations, you have done it wrong.  No guild bank in 2012?  Are you fucking crazy?!  Where was the vision here?  Why does the entire game feel like your movements are slowed and laggy?  Why does the entire experience feel like the first half of the game was carefully planned out and the last half was smashed together quickly so that it could be pushed out of the door?  It is frustrating to no end!

Those are two PC games that I pre-ordered in 2011, because I thought they were going to be very good.  It turns out that they were very mediocre and I've now simply gone back to other games.  Tribes: Ascend, a free-to-play FPS game that is still in beta AND WoW, a 7-year old MMO game that is losing subscribers by the hundred-thousands.  Not that these games aren't great, but when you look at huge blockbuster titles that released, you figure that I should have at least been interested in them for more than a couple months.

We have to demand more from these guys!  We can't just keep accepting pieces of shit and hoping that it gets better.