I'm not denying they exist, I just refuse to buy games from the faction of the market. As a customer that's about all the power I have. Unless legislation is enacted nothing will change either. People can yell from the top of their lunges to stop buying predatory games, pre-ordering, ect but the problem with the game market is there are always more young people entering the market than there are older gamers who have been jaded by industry practices. By extension they can afford to churn out stagnant franchises and micro-transaction ladened games, as each new gamer is a new person to scam. Heck even more mature gamers still pre-order games they know they shouldn't. Diablo IV is a great example of this, tons of people on TPU were saying how they pre-ordered or planned to purchase day 1. This is despite the fact that the actual gameplay that was shown before release was not appealing.
Ultimately I don't think a purely libertarian approach is the best here. Gamers are somewhat to blame but we have to recognize both the market demographics and the lack of legislation for what is utlimately in many cases gambling and often social, mental, and emotional engineering to get gamers to spend more money.
