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I agree with Killarney on so many levels here, but I do not agree with this game.
With that being said, I think people should just let the whole "boycott" and controversy die. I didn't even know about this ghettopoly until I read this article and to be honest, Mr. Chang might get A LOT of advertising that he couldn't have paid for 100 times over. I can totally see this type of boycott actually getting more people to become aware of the game and actually going to buy it. We studied this in my Organizations and Management Analysis and believe it or not, there are a lot of people out there that will go and buy a product simply because of the controversy that is produces. Thus, incoporating an affect that wasn't wanted or wasn't intended while the makers of the game make it big while getting free advertising and the people that try to boycott the game lose big.
It's almost like a case involving Abercrombie and Fitch. A while back they ended up streaming into commerical America because of a boycott of one of their clothing lines that was started by, I think at the time it was the Lt. Governor of Illinois. She was disgusted with some of the items A&F was producing so she started a website and tried gaining support to help boycott A&F. The so-called boycott gave A&F tons and tons of free publicity and instead of people boycotting the store, HS and college-aged kids were buying the stuff up like no tomorrow.
Just some food for thought.
Woo woo.
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