Submitted 2 months ago by mecen@lemmy.ca to games@lemmy.world
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Apparently there will be some boycott of PS in regards of decision to discontinue disks.
From 23 to 30 of August.
People will keep buying their PlayStations and nothing will change. But sure, I’m in. Can I boycott them anymore then not owning a PlayStation ?
This is like when women who have never had sex call on other women to join them in not having sex with men as some sort of protest.
I’m doing one better. I busted out the old Xbox and kh2 final mix.
I will keep not playing PS like I did since I got a PC lol, maybe even pirate my PS4 since I wasn’t using it that much anymore.
Too bad I still got 45€ there from the last gift card I had received…
some MildLad out there made a Calling Card persona-5 style, as if from the phantom thieves of hearts themselves, directed at Hideaki Nishino, the president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment himself.
i’m not saying something is gonna happen
but i am saying that if something did ever end up happening…
it would be really funny
;3
Easiest boycott of my life.
They didn’t even boycott PS+ switching to paid online. I never paid for PS+. And never bought the PS5. Those who were already dissatisfied with Sony left, and those who stayed I doubt will stop buying Sony consoles even without physical PS6 games.
Having seem strong protests become meaningless for being one-offs, I'd strongly recommend, besides doing this initial boycott, to keep pressuring against them whenever you can. Get the games you're interested on competing platforms when possible, share the word of what they tried to pull, follow their competitors on social medias, etc. But don't let the dissatisfaction die until they correct course.
I’ve been part of the PC Gaming Mafia since the early nineties.
If everyone put as much effort into actually boycotting Sony and spreading the message as they do whining about boycotts not working, we might actually see results. If you actually give a shit about this, stop spreading a message that discourages the fight. Direct your apathy and discontent at Sony. Quit watching from the sidelines while you gawk at the people fighting for all of our rights. If it’s not a long enough boycott, call for a longer one. Apathy is death.
Boycotts with deadlines expressed in terms of dates on a calendar have never been effective at anything besides making people think they’re accomplishing something.
I’ve been boycotting Sony since they started charging for PSN. Join me. Unless you can’t go that long without your precious God of War or whatever.
I’ve barely bought anything from Sony over the years. It’s certainly not hard for me to drop them permanently. I agree the boycott should be longer. A timed boycott isn’t going to be very effective, but it’s better than doing nothing.
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.
I’m getting rid of my playstation and blocking Sony on my enterprise’s network
I sold my PS5 a year ago. So, I already am boycotting…
“I want a disk that is literally just an activation dongle to download some digital software!” —ANGERY “pro physical media” morons.
Absolute platinum tier brain-dead take.
The only “morons” around here are people who loudly and proudly share the same stupid disinfo, and try to disparage those that actually trying to keep this hobby from completely going down the shitter.
No one’s trying to take away your ability to buy and play digital games, so why the fuck are you advocating doing so for those that prefer physical media?
Has your dumb-ass not yet realised that physical media means competitive pricing, due to Sony’s online store needing to compete with B&M sales, as well as the 2nd hand market?
Once that’s taken away, and you’re stuck with “dynamic targeted pricing” of $70+ dollars for years-old titles - if you can even still purchase them - maybe then, the couple of brain cells floating around in that massive waste of space between your ears might just manage to find each other, and it will finally dawn on you just how hard you’re now getting fucked over.
Oh, and by-the-way - removing digital-only titles and DLC from the sales metrics, something like ~50% of game sales are still through physical media.
Meh. Pirates will always be there to make these things available for free if anyone cares.
Only fools gonna be champing at the bit to own a scratched to hell copy of the idea of Death Stranding or Elden Ring on a disk that doesn’t work on a system that doesn’t work when they can just download a rom of it for free off what ever the hell new site pops up in the future (or pay $0.30 for a native build on whatever computer platform is dominant then).
I got Wind Waker on like 3 different devices, all stored locally. I don’t care that I sold my physical copy of it (that I bought new for the game cube back in the day). I also don’t care that I also have a physical copy of its hd re-release collecting dust in a cabinet. Guarantee you’re not gonna be too sad that you can’t play your original copy of Ghost of Tsushima from disk on a PS5 20 years from now. But I’m sure you’ll be complaining that games are so expensive at $80 in 2046 (but that’s a different gamer essay).
Even better would be to buy their systems (used) and then install Linux with Steam and emulators, so you can play Steam games and any retro game up to PS3 on your PS4 and PS5. I am currently trying to do this to my PS4 as I write this, but am running into challenges as I am not the most tech savvy, but it can be done! The more people in on this, the easier it becomes. Stop updating your system software today.
I haven’t turned on my ps5 in months, this should be easy!
I’m apparently already participating. Haven’t booted my PS5 since April.
Props for the desire here but I don’t think think this is the best audience for this. And yeah I’d agree it take more than a timed protest. Need to be full stop and it need to be everyone. It needs to scare the investors who cares about no one but themselves
Feel the power of collective action, the power of community, the power that is your birthright!
Good luck with that
Thisll work as well as the fifa world cup boycott.
I fear that Sony will cobble together some release to those days…
Sony do not care about this in the slightest lol. It wouldn’t even register a blip on their radar.
Also Sony barely release games anymore because of how much of a hold they have over the industry.
Fo the opposite during gta so the network stays down would do more i think. Effective ddos just logging in/out.
Jokes on you Sony, I don’t even have time to play your games anymore.
Good kids. but that’s called a strike
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
I usually go months without using mine already. What would this even really do? They don’t make money on the system simply being turned on, and they might have reduced costs in their server bill if everyone stops using them for a week or two.
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Lol the absolute fucking panic at the c suite when a discord server figures out the exact number of users it takes to do that and starts coordinating it every day.
I know it will never happen but it would be hilarious.