Are "hardcore" gamers ruining the industry?

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Because I can't even understand what it is he is arguing between the run on sentences, sentence fragments and bad punctuation. As a result, I dismissed his entire post as totally irrelevant to this thread or this discussion.

Really?

Even with the run-on sentences I can understand his position, and the core of it reflects what I'm trying to get across - that a lot of core gamers feel that major companies deserve some type of punishment/retribution for the mistakes/sins/what-have-you that they've levied on us over the past several console generations.

That instead of diagnosing the symptoms of the problem and fixing the cause, clear-cutting the forest and burning the stumps will be a more effective way for gamers to get what they want (in this case through the dissolving of rights/ownership of IP's apparently, but honestly most times I think it's just to watch them burn and feel some sense of hate-filled personal vengeance satisfied.)

I know you don't think it's a good idea to call for a boycott and I know that you don't think that it will do any legitimate damage, but are we at least somewhere in the same universe in acknowledging that this kind of sentiment has grown amongst "core" gamers over the past 10 years?

I mean, as a point of fact in this thread alone several people in this very community have thrown in those exact two cents.