Sony is the biggest fucking security risk in this entire deal, what the fuck
PlayStation Uses Safety Concerns To Defend Steam PSN Account Requirements
Submitted 6 days ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to games@lemmy.world
https://www.thegamer.com/sony-defends-steam-psn-account-requirements-to-enjoy-games-safely/
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rtxn@lemmy.world 6 days ago
mp3@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Especially with the rootkit scandal from 2005.
Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Its extremely funny to me that people still bring this up like its actually relevant to any broad swathe of population.
Giant tech nerds really do be forgetting normal people exist.
Wooki@lemmy.world 5 days ago
they also do not protected customers private information. Let alone their own…
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Sony has the worst track record of anyone to be talking about “safety”
Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 days ago
How many databreach had sony until now? I remember more than one
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 6 days ago
To be fair, Totoki has a bit of a point when it comes to safety concerns, as PlayStation will be required to oversee interactions between players in its multiplayer games, but that doesn’t really explain why single-player games force players to create PSN accounts.
What ever happened to “Online interactions are not rated by the ESRB” and “Online interactions may lead to a different or unintended experience” and other such concepts?
Katana314@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I think “Disclaimer: Product may explode and take out your eye” only goes so far in terms of warning consumers. Better to actually have something protecting them.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 6 days ago
No online interaction is going to be as harmful as a product exploding and taking out your eye. Except in the case of children and pedos, perhaps. But in that case, most responsibility (all, in my opinion) is on the parents to monitor their child’s online gaming. Additionally, a system that doesnt require PSN accounts that monitors in game chat for words and phrases that flags for human interception could easily be implemented. Something like that could be caught quickly and dealt with easily before actual damage occurs.
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Doesn’t explain single player games.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Sony? Safe? Lmao
Viri4thus@feddit.org 5 days ago
Pausing the sony bad narrative for two minutes. Where the fuck was all of this outrage when Rockstar, Ubisoft, EA, Actiblizz and so on did the exact same for over a fucking decade? Why is sony the straw that beoke the camel’s back when theirs isn’t even the worse requirement? Shit, I still have PTSD from GFWL.
Maalus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Because they introduced that shit to a successful game way after launch. So people got pissed because it was a bait and switch.
Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Are they still storing passwords in plaintext?
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 5 days ago
We will find out in the next hack.
LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com 5 days ago
ROFL They’ve gotten breached so many times and drained of data, it’s cute that they are trying to gaslight consumers into believing this bullshit! It’s all about looking popular and inflating their free accounts, so those freeloaders can become payers at some point in time. Steam is far more secure than Sony, I would prefer that they’d just give up with trying to strong-arm PC gamers into signing up for their PSN Slop.
njm1314@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Cuz when I think about safety of my user data I think Sony
N00b22@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
🏴☠️
caut_R@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Why even go out of your way to spout that bs? Just say nothing, if you’re not about to say „shit, you’re right, no more PSN requirements on PC,“ you can only make it worse
Nugscree@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Wait, is this the same company that installed a rootkit on your computer when you inserted a genuine bought music cd, or has had their databases breached several times, where plain text user credit card data was stolen and the latest one was not that long ago.
That Sony?