Nobody has explained how simply not using the console you already bought would affect their profits negatively at all. If anything it will lower their server costs from the reduced bandwidth for a month.
NRay7882@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Stand-down August 23rd-30th. Want to send a fuck you to Sony? Fuck their profits, then they’ll understand.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 hours ago
imecth@fedia.io 29 minutes ago
As long as you keep using the console you're still in the walled garden, you're still giving them data to harvest, being exposed to their ads, padding their MAU numbers... Server costs are negligible - it's what allows F2P to work as a monetization model.
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
^ now that’s a boycott
digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Not saying don’t do it, but it’s a blip on the radar. As someone who works in tech, a week blackout looks like a bunch of people going on vacation. Especially during August, which is during many summer vacations.
Never buy a digital title for a console. If you need to buy digital, buy it on the open hardware platform.
If you really want to send a message, deleting your account or cancelling PS plus if you have it does more. That shows a decline in MoM retention.
Timed boycotts are an assimilation to corporate control. If the goal of a boycott is to affect change it must be indefinite as the change it wishes to bring about is required to end it.
warm@kbin.earth 8 hours ago
No tangible amount of people are going to put their money where their mouth is. Gamers have time and time again shown that they can be screwed over. I mean look at the state of the big games now and games as a service taking over, people are happily paying $20+ for a skin in a game, something that used to come included with the game as an unlock.
bloogoose@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
It’s not just gamers. All of these performative bucking of the norm lasts a few days then back to business as usual. People don’t want to give up their comforts for lasting change.
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Not saying you’re wrong but the backlash to this Sony decision seems to have most gamers up in arms. Maybe even waking up a little bit. Maybe I’m too hopeful though.
If your friends agree, just spread the word, there’s no need to spend on those skins when there’s soooo many indie titles out there. Hours and hours of content to keep us busy and direct money away from Sony, Microsoft, etc.
Get some drm free games on GoG.