Apparently there will be some boycott of PS in regards of decision to discontinue disks.
From 23 to 30 of August.
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Thisll work as well as the fifa world cup boycott.
I never understood these. Then the week after y’all will come back business as usual. How does it actually affect anything?
I owned a ps3. Last one I’ve owned. That’s how you do it.
How does it actually affect anything?
It gives certain social influencers a soapbox from which they can shout “Like, Subscribe, and Share!”
Modern day “boycotts” aren’t really economic actions. They’re media stunts advanced by affinity marketing groups intended to collect personal information and demonstrate their ability to mobilize large numbers of people.
Agreed on the last part. But a less cynical take: Companies like Sony obsessively track their sales metrics. If a campaign like this does go viral, and only a few percent of people actually follow through, it does create a noticeable dip in the metrics and an explanation will be demanded internally. There’s a small chance this makes certain managers a bit more careful about such decisions.
In rare cases companies have taken back or at least delayed similar moves, and they never do so without indication that it will indeed affect their bottom line.
Though I don’t think this campaign will have much effect, since asking for a full week is not something many people will follow through with. Also Sony is clearly banking on the fact that customers will stay due to lock-in to their ecosystem.
Yep. The hill my new console owning habits died on was any corp pushing paying to play online subscriptions and I stuck to that. I’ll buy used later if there’s exclusives I want and I can’t just emulate it like Switch 1.
Yeah I went from Sega to ps3 to switch 1 to nothing. But I’ve always owned a PC.
I still really want to play bloodborne, the emulation was rough when I tried it last, but I’m not gonna buy a ps4 just for one game.
Why one week? Refuse to buy anything until they revert course
just a week?
the sentiment is nice, but those are rookie numbers. gotta pump it up to at least a month or three.
director boards don’t care unless the quarter looks bad.
Babysteps brother. The roaring blaze of a revolution starts with an ember
I would be absolutely floored of enough people were on board to even make a noticable difference for just one week. Boycotts in the gaming space have been hilariously ineffectual, historically.
Push for laws that force digital stores to provide full ownership of digital rights.
The ability to pass purchased licenses from one account to another would be a real game changer.
They’re trying to kill ownership completely, and this would blow it wide open.
And that could just be step one. We need assurances about what happens when a store closes (can we download everything and archive it and play offline? will it be moved to another provider?) We need the ability to move purchases between stores. Hell, even between platforms. We need to make sure accounts that have paid for goods cannot be completely revoked under any circumstances. Locked out of online play or prevented from making further purchases, sure, but never just blocked.
Law makers have sat idly by for too long as our rights were taken from us. It’s high time to take them back.
Well what entitled full ownership for you
remember when Sony was the only console with backwards compatibility? Pepperridge Farm Remembers.
Huh? You could play gameboy games on the SNES?!
with an adapter, yes, but the PS2 and PS3 could run PSX games natively.
You know who would say economic boycotts don’t do anything? A lot of people defending Target a couple years ago. You could ask their CEO at that time, bit he was fired after they set the record for consecutive weeks losing value on their stock.
If you have a console, join in. Maybe they will feel it. AND REMEMBER , one corporation always works to give the others cover to follow. So if you have another console, support. Do it, and tell friends.
set the record for consecutive weeks
Then be sure to tell the organizers to set the record of indefinite consecutive weeks of protest.
I will continue not playing playstation, as I have for years. Fuck 'em.
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In my region, PS5s were out of stock for a long time. Yesterday new stock came. Approx $200 more expensive than before. That too is for the digital version. 1 week not enough. Should be indefinite. Seeing industry trends, next one might be over $400 more expensive than current gen
In my region, PS5s were out of stock for a long time.
It’s very funny to see folks talk about a boycott against a product that keeps selling out faster than the parent company can manufacture it.
I used to be jealous of people with playstation back in the day, but now that i could afford one i have zero interest anymore. There’s nothing it does that my gaming pc doesn’t do. There’s no reason at all to buy a new one as far as i can tell.
Works for me. My last Playstation was a PS2 lol. Been gaming on PC for over 20 years.
Don’t think casual gamers will care about this. Most will probably just boot up their games on PlayStation after a long day of work or university.
Halo releases this week. Sony isn’t going to notice anything.
We still doin halos?
👏 Businesses don’t give a fuck about a timed boycott👏
Seriously, timed blackouts and petitions are just being performative. If someone actually cares, sell your ps5/move to another platform. Nothing else matters. This is like how sports game fans complain every year that the game sucks but are still willing to drop 80 dollars on it.
still willing to drop 80 dollars on it.
LOL.
And people buy that.
Gaming market is FUCKED UP beyond recovery.
Gaming market is FUCKED UP beyond recovery.
AAA gaming market*. Indie market is unaffected by this bullshit.
This, aside from recently playing Death Stranding I got for free, and occasional Guild Wars 2 because they are pretty cool, I have not paid for (or played) an AAA game for years at this point.
There’s so many cool indie games if you know where to dig, there’s really no need to play another remastered AAA slop.
Agreed it should be: starting 23 of August not purchasing any digital games and microtransactions. It would hurt Sony the most
this is a pretty accurate representation of most current day boycotts.
Yup. People can’t sacrifice anything these days to make a statement.
What is especially frustrating is how quickly these corporations would fold under pressure. Take a principled position for 1 week and watch what happens.
Take a principled position for 1 week and watch what happens.
As soon as a timeframe is added, the company will just ignore it, especially something as minor as a week. Boycott should not have an end date, only then would a company start to consider it and maybe try to do something to end it.
Sorry, I didn’t mean literally a week and to tell them first. I meant if enough people did this they would start to see the results of their effort in about one week.
Fair, just misinterpreted then due to the context of the announcement saying it’s only for a week. My apologies.
The company would only fold under pressure if it was actually an issue a huge percentage of their customers cared about. This isn’t one of them.
I wish I could see it in my lifetime. The scrambling back to people on their hands and knees and suddenly being super user friendly and pro consumer would be a glorious sight to behold.
Its literally so easy most of the time. Once or twice a year something comes out that I really want to use / play. Its the two times per year I “suffer.”. The rest is stuff I probably would have tried and played but its now so far off my radar they’ll never see a cent again (unless of course there is a major overhaul in whatever co’s business model; happy to return with a change).
I feel this exact way with GTA 6 right now but it got a lot easier for me when I realized how many thousands of potential hours of amazing experiences I already have in my library.
I’m starting to feel more fulfilled on going through that backlog than I am on whatever new game everyone is playing.
I should have taken this route a long time ago.
Thats a weird one because Activision wants mw2 players to stop playing. They refuse the patch an RCE in multiplayer. These people are probably playing on the private servers. But if they spend any time on the game thats time away from where Activision wants them which is on the new game.
That image is from when the original mw2 came out
Ohhh
At least peer to peer works theoretically forever though. So it’s not the worst way to keep multiplayer alive.
Hm I wonder if that list of 17 pages is perhaps sorted to show people in the game who may have either accidentally clicked the join button or are new.
Nah, it’s indicative of how g*mers act.
Some gamers. I am still chillin playing factorio with my player hosted servers and no DRM because the devs are based.
Gamers ≠ g*mers
? I mean obviously there’s the possibility of it being shopped but there’s no sort order you could do where Borderlands, Dragon Age, and Team Fortress would all be up there mixed in to the Call of Duty players while still showing primarily Call of Duty in the middle of the list.
Judging by the name order it seems like it’s just 1 page of online players and 16 pages of offline players? I would guess maybe it was taken way after the boycott but I dont know the full context.
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