After finding Blackrock bought thousands of shares of Sega stock, we need to make our voices heard to all these companies and be proactive. If we don't Blackrock and others will kick in the doors of our sanctuaries(figurately) and wreck all we hold dear.
We prevent this by buying stock in companies beforehand and after. If there are any companies you like and have concerns do NOT buy an ETF, by doing that you forfeit exercising any rights of the part of the share you own. You give it to the individuals managing the ETF. Rather buy all the stock on its own.
A good note I would say is if you are going to buy a stock in said company do it in equal value to the game. In other words, if the game is $60 buy $60 of the companies stock and so on.
edit: I should rephrase this by saying the next time you are going to buy that game buy the stock along with it.

Or we could just not buy the remasters if they suck (hot take: they don't alyways suck).

Blackrock???

That super huge financial institute that effectively controls gigantic portions of the global market . . . that is if you have to believe the youtube vids 'bout blackrock?!?!

The only productive I thing I see with owning game stocks is having a chance of your questions being answered by management staff in quarterly meetings or AGMs since it's going to be unlikely that all DRM-free shareholders would be able to outvote majority shareholders. Even then, most other shareholders are going to want remasters because it's less financially riskier - ie: they don't have to invest millions into a new IP that might bomb. Starfield for recent example; even though it might be a commercial success, it probably didn't meet franchise expectations that the Elder Scrolls series got.

The easiest thing to do for most people is to follow what Breja says. Don't buy remasters if they're not up to your standards. Because while shareholders are closer to management knowledge and decisions, ultimately it's the mass market that companies must cater to at the end of the day.

LMAO. You think me sinking the equivalent of a penny into the game's industry is going to make a difference? Dumber idiots have tried, and look where Gamestop is now!

Stock market is a charlatan's game.

I am not STRICTLY talking about DRM Free but merely getting these stupid PC sensibilities being wedged in and censoring our games. I am looking to the future and if they get their way we won't buy 90% or more of these games with ANY budget because they will be infested in anything, no matter how niche.
To the last poster this is not about strictly making money like Gamestop.

Oh, this turned out to be another quasi-political culture wars post and not related to DRM-free. Aight, I'm outta here...

It can be both and it is NOT Culture War. Leaving a product as it was before the remaster, how is this ANY different than objecting to someone messing with a book that has already been written with said language? Older games, movies and other media are a product of their time and should be recognized accordingly.

My post, for the record wasn't about money, but "being an effective voice".

If the Simians thought they could influence Gamestop, instead of effectively throwing their money into a hole, what chance do you realistically have to influence the board, the shareholders, PEGI, the ESRB, multinational markets, and all those spinning cogs between?

Ok fair as a lot was about this was money to be made though to be fair some bought it simply because they didn't want the shorting ploy to work and see GS go out of business.