It’s a good reminder that collective bargaining works. It’s about time we bring back unions and cooperatives.
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stardust@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
This shows the power of steam reviews with it being driven by the actual community. People tried to downplay and belittle its effectiveness, but it being front and center on the store page does have more impact than there would be without steam reviews. If there were no steam reviews the PSN requirement would have been pushed through with it being easier to ignore some random internet comments on social media than a store page.
honey_im_meat_grinding@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Allero@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Made me imagine a page where everyone everyday can leave 1 vote on how good the government performs
If the scores are too low for a prolonged period of time, the government is dismissed.
(Obviously a very first-second concept with millions of flaws - just a thought)
Boinkage@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In a two party system, that would just make it so we switch governments every day.
Allero@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Two-party system is the enemy of democracy to begin with
But maybe even they would be more inclined to do better everyday
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Allero@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Many countries actually have such systems in place today, even Russia (lol) - not that they work too well.
Normally, there are two sources of issues here: petitions can in fact be declined, and, in cases where the signature count depends on scale of the petition they can be intentionally escalated as to make it impossible to gain enough signatures.
Long story short, the system is open to shenanigans and doesn’t make the government truly accountable.
We need the system that would actually make politicians rapidly lose their jobs when they ignore public opinion.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Now do it for things like universal healthcare and taxing the rich!
lockhart@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Country reviews on Steam, do it Gabe
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ or else you basically support Xbox
Default_Defect@midwest.social 1 month ago
The sony communities I saw poopooing the whole thing flipped immediately into “WE DID IT” mode, pretending they actually cared about the people that were going to lose access.
Syrc@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is why Steam reviews should be taken much more seriously. This was impossible to avoid due to the enormous amount of bad press and devs themselves jumping on the hate train, but I’m betting that a lot of review bombing attempts have been quietly offset by the company just paying people for fake reviews. It’s especially obvious when the game has relatively low reviews for months and months, then suddenly bad stuff happens and along with the justified dump of negative reviews, positive ones also skyrocket (99% of which composed of “good game”, random memes or ascii art).
ech@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Reviews aren’t pointless, but their impact only goes so far. I am assuming the massive amount of refunds had more to do with it, tbh.
Glide@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I suspect someone in accounting ran the numbers and decided they stand to lose more to reduced microtransaction sales than they would have gained via selling scraped data.
Though I agreed with you. It’s still a win, but we have to be careful not to conflate this with Sony “caring”.
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 1 month ago
I still think the biggest reason why they wanted to push their shitty platform is to artificially push player numbers. "Look how many people use our scam network, see?"
Now the hilarious part is that hopefully someone has to explain why people go these lengths, just to not join their shitty service.
CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That isn’t why. PlayStation doesn’t view this as a problem and in fairness, I don’t either. If the game had shipped with this requirement, it would’ve been fine. Many people put up with Ubisoft and they have a whole separate account plus launcher.
What Sony actually wanted was to make it easier on their server side to authenticate purchases and then to use the same PSN account systems to matchmaker for easier cross-play.
Would they collect data? I guess. They can already do that if they want as a publisher. So yeah it’s purely just to use their ecosystem, which makes sense.
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It was not “someone in accounting”
This shit goes all the way to the top. Every manager in the chain will have their take and influence on the numbers.
Glide@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Sure, and I’m not suggesting said bean counter was responsible for the decision. What I am suggesting is that the only thing that influenced the decision was bottom line finances. Someone ran the numbers, and when the suits discovered that they stand to lose more money than they’d gain, they reversed the decision. Never mistake this as Sony “listening” to anything more than their investors and their bottom line.
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 1 month ago
It's probably a bit of this and a bit of that. I mean the game went from one of the best revied games to one of the worst in a day. There were refunds and a drop in players all at the same time.
dustyData@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My prediction is that the game will rebound, certainly, but will not reach back to the levels it had before. A percentage of people who refunded won’t be buying again and another section probably will quit the game altogether, now or as soon as something newer and shinier shows up. Lots will forget to change their review.
Sony actively hurt their own game and probably made irreparable damage.
Stern@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’d imagine that there’s math to be done on sales for a mixed review game vs. a overwhelming positive one, and its not favorable.