Frist off I don't need half of all consumers to boycott a game. Even a 1 to 5 percent drop in sales is enough to do damage and prevent a game from going #1 or becoming game of the year.

Yes the traffic on the forums may not be that high (today), but everyone who participates in a boycott or delay in purchase ultimately talks to someone else, and believe me a person is more likely to convince his friends to boycott than a forum is to convince a stranger. Boycott wasn't my term, however, delaying a purchase should become more of good "common sense" rather than a movement. It should be a personal choice of gamers who accept the reality of the business and have decided to save themselves the frustration and disappointment of buying half completed games at full price only to wait 6 months to play what they paid for.

Whether my plan works or not ultimately is moot. I'm making a personal choice and I'm sharing that choice with others in the hope they might also consider the same action. I realize without the support of the forums as well my idea probably won't get very far. But in the end my goal has been achieved. I have been changed and I will be better for it.

BTW I keep seeing a common theme about how nice CA is for making a patch and listening to the community even though they won't make any money on the patch blah, blah, blah. . .

Frankly I think it was very nice of the community to BETA! test their game for them, and to pay full price for that BETA!. I consider the patch and any patches to come to be the actual game and the money I paid to get a copy of the BETA! was nothing more than a pre-purchase. They owe me the patch because I paid for it 6 months ago.

Noneless, I think we all know that if CA/Sega didn't patch there would be a lot of customers who wanted their money back. I can tell you I wanted my money back 6 months ago.

I won't have this problem next time.