This is sort of the stick
So there's a game, Shadow Complex, that was inspired by Orson Scott Card's Empire and which trades heavily on Card's name. And some gamers are refusing to purchase Shadow Complex because of Card's homophobia and their wish not to give money to someone like that. And the creators are very sad about the closemindedness of those gamers.

Peter David, the writer for Shadow Complex, offers his advice: "If anyone wants to boycott the game and thus damage me or (development studio) Chair while doing nothing to change Orson's opinions, that's naturally their right. Or...They can display the sort of tolerance for someone who is different from them that they feel is lacking in Orson and thus prove they're better. Your choice."

You think Peter has an opinion on which one is better? You think maybe he's trying to give us a subtle nudge in one direction?

I'm not advocating a boycott. I don't even have Xbox Live, so one could say that I am viciously and unfairly boycotting all of the Live content, if one wanted to extend the term "boycott" to the degree that Peter does here. Because, you know, the article specifically notes that the gamer credited with starting the movement has in no way advocated a formal boycott. He's just said, "I'm not buying it." 

But beyond that... you know what damages you, Peter David? Getting you fired. Cutting your health insurance. You know, things that actually have a non-zero negative effect upon you. Me not buying your game? Doesn't actually do much.

There is a carrot, and there is a stick. Me not buying your game is me failing to give you a carrot. Learn the difference.

Acting as if the only way to prove that I am tolerant is to buy your Orson Scott Card fanfic sidescroller, and that anything else constitutes an attack upon you, smacks just a teensy tiny bit of entitlement.

Unless... wait, people, do you think he's on to something?

Major presses, your failure to purcase my unpublished novels is a direct attack on not just me, but my family as well, and while I can accept attacks on me as part of playing in the big leagues, attacking my wife and children is over the line. Either these attacks, in the form of you not buying my books, stop immediately, or I suppose we'll have our answer about the integrity, or lack thereof, of the editors in the publishing industry. The choice is yours.

We'll see how that goes.