I would argue it's stupid to buy any game without at least some amount of research regardless, but I don't see how this instance is enough to swing you that far.
You know, I was thinking about this just now.
I'm going to show a little bit of my age here, but back in the day, we didn't have your fancy internets and digital downloads. When we wanted to own music, dang nabbit, we had to walk 20 miles uphill barefooted in the snow to the local five and dime for our CDs.
Now, I bought a lot of CDs back in the day. You youngin's with your em-pee-three players and your iDooDads don't know what it's like to carry a CD player ever so gently because anti-skip protection hadn't been invented yet and a stack of 5-10 CDs because each disc had about an hour of music and you needed multiple discs for multiple hours of music.
Anyway, getting off topic here, back in the day, I bought a lot of CDs. Many, Many of these were blind-buy titles based on nothing more than the artist. Sometimes, I might have heard one of the tracks on the radio. On a rare occasion, I'd have some spare cash and just want a new CD, so I'd browse the shelf and look for something interesting (I discovered Charlotte Church and her first album this way. I've been in love with her music ever since, even when she went "pop". This is important, remember this.) to buy.
Of course, now-a-days, you gots your internets and your youtubes and your napsters - you don't need to blind-buy CDs. Heck, you don't even need to buy music. But that's another story.
But that's the way I'm used to doing things. I'll blind-buy a product based off nothing more than a name or something interesting that grabs my attention about the product. Sometimes, I get burned, sometimes I don't. Typically, I have pretty good intuition though about what I'll like.
However, knowing that a company purposely put out a sub-par product, and not because they needed to, but because they could... well, that says something to me and sticks in my head. So, like years ago, if I saw a THQ logo on a game, I'd remember the crappy THQ licensed games my mom would buy me for my Game Boy and I'd skip over them. I'm not saying that if I see the Renegade Kid Logo that I'd skip over that game entirely - but, before, based off nothing more than playing Mutant Mudds, I'd buy another RK game if I was browsing the eShop for something to play (which happens a lot). Now, however, I'll probably just make a mental note to look the game up and skip it over for something else.
And maybe I'll remember that mental note, look it up and maybe I'll go back to the eShop and get it some time. Maybe.
Back to the beginning, why did I just *now* remember this? Because Charlotte Church's new EP is up for pre-order, and I just put money down on a physical copy (i.e.: CD for you youngins) without ever having listened to a track off of it. Because I know it'll be something I enjoy.
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