Kotaku Questions Epicness of Gaming Community's Epic Win

It's all over the internet, pretty much every gaming site has covered it. The gaming community has raised their fists in unison against the Evil Empire that is EA, and upon their threats to not buy the game EA has yielded to the power of their wallets and agreed to not charge for more guns. Success.

But for some reason, Luke Plunkett from Kotaku, has written an article raining on the parade of happy gamers worldwide. In his recent rant, Mr.Plunkett basically says that who cares if we won this "small battle," the war isn't over and EA is just going to find another way to make money off of this game, and eventually will return to DLC that effects gameplay mechanics. To somewhat of a degree he is right, but the way he addresses it is wrong. He addresses it like a suicidal emo kid and puts down all the people who stood together against this injustice, calling it a "hollow victory" and that this evil will come into the world eventually. He might be right, but we have no way to know. And to suggest that since it's coming anyway that we should just not even try is like saying "well the world is going to end someday so why don't we just blow it up now." And then to me it seems like he's suggesting that the reason this boycott came to be was because we were mad about EA making money. He makes it seem like we though "hey guys! EA is making money! Let's not buy their game!" We aren't mad that EA is making money, and even if they do shift things around so they can make money another way, we won't care as long as they aren't taking advantage of us like they were before.

By our standing against this DLC, game, and publisher we have stopped (or in Mr.Plunkett's eyes "delayed the inevitable") exploitation of gamers. By doing it once we have proved to the big suits that we aren't mindless wallets that dispense money at your bidding, but gamers who want to have an enjoyable gaming experience and can recognize when we're being taken advantage of. But I think even more important than that is that we've proved to ourselves that we can unite as a gaming community despite what or how we play and make a difference. And now that it's happened (on this major scale) I think it'll start happening a lot more.