They’re actually very good at voting with their wallet for the most part. A minority of them are just very dumb and vote against what they’re claiming they want.
Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)
kevinsky@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Gamers are notoriously bad at voting with their wallet so i’m very curious to see what comes of this.
I mean all the power to anybody that actually participates in this but effective boycots don’t usually have a start or end date. This looks more like a strike.
You’re going to need to get everybody to abandon Sony indefinately. Preferably from right now.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Nah, the majority of gamers just don’t care.
They just want to play their games and as long as it isn’t too many hoops to jump through will stick with Playstation. They didn’t even read the news about physical media.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
They don’t care because they don’t buy physical games. They voted with their wallet to go all digital. That was a decision they made at some stage, and they don’t care about physical games existing or not.
timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I think part of it is people don’t forego convenience but also that we’ve allowed corporations to cement hegemonies that there honestly is very little ability to boycott.
Some industries are so centralized it’s impossible to effectively boycott and vote with your wallet.
r1veRRR@feddit.org 22 hours ago
This is the crowd that preorders a DIGITAL ONLY game that hasn’t released a single lick of gameplay video. GTA 6 is proof that capital g Gamers are a lost cause.
The sane people that game have to just stay away from all the ball and gun Gamers, and support the indie scene.
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, switching to PC is a significantly more effective boycott strategy. You can still play games and give Sony $0.
kevinsky@feddit.nl 22 hours ago
While this is true, releases on GOG are few and far between and all the other stores are just (bad) variations of the same thing.
We have “competition” on pc in online stores because some publishers are big enough to build their own just so they don’t have to pay Valve to be on Steam. You are not technically locked to one store, but you are very much locked to whatever store publishers choose to push their game to. So you’re locked to all of them unless you choose to just not play said game, which is essentially the same choice you have on the Playstation with the PS store.
steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 15 hours ago
Big difference for me is PC is open hardware and open OS. Should the worst happen there are possible solutions from those voyaging the seas.
But, consoles are locked down, and jailbreaks can be years away.
Its why despite buying digital on PC without issue I continued to buy physical for consoles, since I felt more in control of PC hardware than I did console hardware. Physical on consoles was a way of gaining back some control despite the hardware being locked.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Oh well. They dont want to sell my the game, then I don’t need the game.
PC is the only chance at you controlling the hardware, so it’s the only choice.
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
The comparison still doesn’t make sense. You can’t play a PlayStation disc on a different platform. If you buy a disc on console you are locked to that ecosystem.
Sony are doing this because not enough people buy discs to make it worth manufacturing, and PC gamers should know this because this new age of digital gaming started with the PC. Switching to PC just proves their point.
steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 15 hours ago
You are locked to the ecosystem, but the disc function can’t be revoked through account ban and is actually transferable to other people because of that.
Something Sony dislikes compared to digital where there is no second hand market.
Switching to PC proves the point that if games are digital people prefer open hardware and open OS options over locked down hardware.
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Not that is should be a valid response, but you can jail break PlayStations to play whatever game you have a “back up” copy of. That tends to be my method of playing legacy PS games because it’s easier than dealing with discs.
At the end of the day, console gaming is a different product to PC gaming. That’s more obvious with Nintendo, but overall expectations should be different.