Re:Told you so (Score 2, Interesting)

If you boycott Atari, you are in effect boycotting the small guys. Very few video game developers have the resources to pay employees for a 2+ year game cycle and then self publish their game using an online distribution model. Valve has enough clout to pursue such methods but they are in the minority. Atari pays small independant developers to develop games. Otherwise those small independant developers would have to turn to another publisher or stop making games altogether. If Atari goes down you're just making the other publishers even LARGER monopolies. And you'll have a whole truckload of movies to games like Harry Potter and the horrendous Lord of the Rings games by EA.