Is a boycott possible?

GreenVamGreenVam ✭✭✭✭✭

Yesterday the rules of the new anomaly appeared. Many agents are unhappy with what they will receive in the end. These will be the next battles of purchased combat beacons, a dull likeness of the plot, another promise in the event of the victory of enlightenment, which is unlikely to hold back. Yes, yes I spoke in many chats and even wrote here on the forum. Many of the players are unhappy with the current state of affairs: the lack of a gift in the event of a winning resistance, the lack of a clear plot, the glitches of the game that no one has been engaged for more than a year ... I will separately note the lack of communication with users. And now the question arises. And could both of our factions spit on disagreements and refuse to participate in the anomaly, coordinatedly showing the company's employees for problems that have long been related to the community? What do you think about this, write in the comments?

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  • TheKingEngineTheKingEngine ✭✭✭✭✭

    Unfortunately, the boycott in your mind requires agreement from both faction. For now, according to https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/20480/let-the-enlightened-win-epiphany-dawn/p1

    it seems many ENL players are satisfied with the rule, at least for the "winner get what" part...

  • EvilSuperHerosEvilSuperHeros ✭✭✭✭✭

    I had thought in the past that a Boycott might get some traction. Maybe back in the earlier days of Ingress. But now, I'm afraid if we don't show up for an anomaly, they (Ingress) will just cancel all future on site ones, and just be Battle Beacon from your couch anomalies going forward (then again, we seem to be fairly close to that as is). Or they will just say due to low turnouts, we have decided to finally turn off the lights (and set that poor hamster free finally after 10 years of service)...


    But as mentioned, it would take both factions to stand up and say no. Too much travel, hotel, and other things have been purchased for LA. So not likely. Granted, I'm sure if both factions could come together, they could hammer out their own player run nomalee in under a week...I mean if Ingress folks want something, they usually just plan it themselves.

  • GrogyanGrogyan ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yeah, if players boycott this Anomaly, Niantic will just cancel all big events, and I really do not want that to happen

  • GreenVamGreenVam ✭✭✭✭✭

    I do not ask anyone to boycott the event, God forbid. But I am interested in where is the limit of the discontent of the community, and where in the end we could all have hypothetically come? Because wherever I go over the past few days everywhere, a degree of discontent is growing at resistance that will not receive anything for the victory.

     Enlightenment agents also call niantics in not good words for the fact that they have not given information on exogenous creatures for 10 years and, according to tradition, will not give this info now. Many enlightenment agents doubt this.

  • TheKingEngineTheKingEngine ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2022

    Frankly speaking there is no need to, necessarily think about something like a boycott.

    A boycott, is still intended to make the game better, as we are payers, not workers that get paid by the game.

    I don't want to help commercial company to run their products better, if they are not really caring about me.

    Just personally not play would probably solve anything. You see, it does not help that players of Activition Blizzard did some boycott. The products of ATVI is bad. The service there is bad. The management of ATVI is bad. Players' boycotting does not work at all because that company does not care about players at all and their games "Overwatch 1" were shut off on Oct/3. It makes no difference whether players play or not. Boycott only works when the product is still being monitored or well managed.

    Just personally not play would in the long term future solve everything eventually. Find something more worthy of your precious time. Soon you would realize that your worries and anxiety would disappear, together with the game.

  • edited November 2022

    Is the boycott of an anomaly by people who already booked tickets and accomodation the anomaly possible? Nope.

    Is there going to be a massive decline in players attending anyway? Already will be.

    There's a defacto boycott of Ingress regardless, simply because people are quitting when the major issues aren't addressed, and people seeing no interest in going to anomalies because they don't offer the same draw they once did.

    @GreenVam Since I'm pretty sure you're already not going, I don't think choosing not to go because they didn't give you the rules, is going to make much difference. If you choose to not buy battle beacons, they probably won't notice significantly. Most of the people around here have enough of them from Core that if we each put one down, it won't do anything to our stockpile, and we'll get the badge without paying an extra cent, and no-one really has an incentive to 'boycott' since Niantic's ability to react to player issues seems largely non-existent.

    Like the old philosophy question:

    "If a player boycotts an anomaly in the forest, will Niantic notice?"

    We're not voting with our feet, and barely anyone is even opening their wallet to be closed again, so why would Niantic notice.

  • milofargmilofarg ✭✭✭
    edited November 2022

    Niantic has made it very difficult to attend the anomaly in the first place, by the lack of timely communication and planning.

    One of the things that I find really strange now is that after they spent resources on developing the NIA deployed rare battle beacons, now they are hardly using them anymore, only two cities in Q4. There were massive deployments of them during Kureze and Kythera. It may have been too much and too often, but it should be possible to tune this thing to somewhere between practically nothing and practically everywhere.

    During Superposition, only Munich and a handful of cities that had applied got the NIA deployed RBBs. Now for Epiphany Dawn, only Chinatown/LA and Yokohama in December will get them. Were there no more applicants, or did the Ingress team just decide that only two cities will get NIA deployed RBBs and that's it?

    Wasn't the whole point of these RBBs to run automated events in multiple cities world wide, and what better time than during the 10 year anniversary period? But yeah, the attendance for this mess will be low all over, it will not be due to an organized boycott, but of the actions that the Ingress team has (not) taken.

  • mortuusmortuus ✭✭✭✭✭

    No this is not a good idea to be honest.

  • MoogModularMoogModular ✭✭✭✭✭

    I found the RBB deployments in the past to be overkill. The method of how they applied the portals in areas was never fully transparent.

  • There are many things in life that's worth doing. It doesn't make sense to do such thing to make the game better if the company just would like it to remain as is.

  • mortuusmortuus ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2022

    I think its because europe had anomaly earlier, now its usa and people in japan turn i guess. And those that want the badge can still get it in phase 2 but if u want the anomaly feeling u must go to either of those 2 locations.

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