I need the LADS fandom to understand that the point of boycotting is to be disruptive in order to put pressure on a corporate entity that otherwise would not be motivated to respond to consumer demands. If you feel inconvenienced by players using the only small power we have to get PPG/Infold to listen, I’m sorry but that is actually how protesting has historically gotten results.
LADS is a single-player game. No one is capable of ruining your individual player experience because no one can interact directly with you inside the game. You have free will—you can log in, you can pull for cards, you can even spend money and there’s nothing anyone can do to change that.
What you’re actually upset about is that after 6/30, you can no longer enjoy the social experience of posting positively about LADS on Twitter without potentially seeing some amount of backlash because people are upset that online cry bullies were able to weaponize the CCP and force a company to rugpull a multi-million dollar character and game update. Social media is not the game, and your experience on social media is something you yourself are responsible for curating.
What the boycott is trying to achieve is to put enough pressure on PPG to get them to actually communicate with us, reinstate Valko, and address the plethora of ongoing issues—at which point we can all go back to “normal” and you can go back to simply ignoring the LIs who don’t interest you.
PPG does not deserve a “normal” response to their online promotions because they literally gave their entire playerbase the silent treatment for 30 days and then tried to go back to business as usual. It’s THEM you should be directing your frustration and anger at, not at other players who are simply demanding better.
#ValkoisValuable