This post is somewhat inspired by a recent post in this same community called “Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content?”
I imagine “Reddit” will be a common answer. (And it’s one of my answers.)
Another of my answers is “Hasbro.” First Wizards of the Coast (a Hasbro subsidiary) tried to revoke an irrevokable license and screw over basically all 3rd-party publishers of D&D content, then they sent literal mercinaries to threaten one of their customers over an order mixup that wasn’t even the customer’s fault. D&D: Honor Among Thieves and the latest Transformers look really good, but those are within the scope of my boycott, so I won’t be seeing those any time soon.
Third, Microsoft. (Apple too, but then I’ve never bought any Apple devices in my life, so it hardly qualifies as a boycott.) Just because of their penchant for using devices I own against me in every way they can imagine. And for really predatory business practices.
One boycott that I’ve ended was a boycott of Nintendo. I was pissed that they started marketing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (though it didn’t have a name at the time) before the WiiU came out, prompting me to be an early adopter of the WiiU, and then when they actually released BotW, they dual-released it on WiiU and Switch. I slightly eased my boycott when the unpatchable Fusee Gilee vulnerability for the first batch of Switches was discovered. I wanted to get one of the ones I could hack and run homebrew on before they came out with a model that lacked the vulnerability.
Why Nintendo? Maybe I’m out of the loop.
So I just got home and I did not prepare a dissertation on the subject, so I’m just gonna tell you the two issues I remember clearly off the top of my head.
they had a program that would sick lawyers on anyone that streamed/lets play’d Nintendo games, unless they signed a very invasive contract with nintendo that gave nintendo something like half their profits.
they are so grossly incompetent that when Tears of the Kingdom had its street date broken early, they sent their lawyers out to abuse DMCA to shut down any discussion or screenshots of the game, up to and including DMCA’ing their own twitter account promoting the game… Which is stupid because the coverage was better than any coverage money could buy, and buy going full draconian on it they just looked ike out of touch assholes.
Theres plenty of other controversial and stupid bullshit from nintendo, both big and small… and it just, to me, shows a disdain for the customer thats willingly giving them their hard earned money.