And they don’t understand why people pirate, run away from AAA games and go for indie games instead.

They completely understand… the numbers saying that they’re making money hand over fist and the number of people who care is sadly minuscule.

These games have hit a critical mass where people will casually buy them because they’re friends are and so its a common ground game to play with buddies.

I don’t think we can ever rely on consumers pushing back on anti consumer practises because of the reality of people.

Not everyone can afford to care about every issue.

As a result, boycotts are very unlikely to work in the modern world. There is just too much all at once for any one person to care about all of them, so even if you, lets say, care about 1% (a really high estimate) of things that are wrong in the world, and are willing to act, if we extrapolated that out to the whole population, the only things that would move would need to have double digit percentages of peoples care overlapping before anything stuck.

Really, the answer is that you simply need a government that cares about its people/consumer rights.

The USA and Canada, both are very far away from having governments like that.

Europeans are a lot luckier, but yet still, there is plenty to go.