Apparently there will be some boycott of PS in regards of decision to discontinue disks.
From 23 to 30 of August.
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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.
My last console was the PS2 and i still have it and the games i played on it and i have been on PC since then and none of the exclusives on any console have made me consider buying any of them.
Cool, but maybe every month instead of a one time thing
I never understood these. Then the week after y’all will come back business as usual. How does it actually affect anything?
I owned a ps3. Last one I’ve owned. That’s how you do it.
Agreed on the last part. But a less cynical take: Companies like Sony obsessively track their sales metrics. If a campaign like this does go viral, and only a few percent of people actually follow through, it does create a noticeable dip in the metrics and an explanation will be demanded internally. There’s a small chance this makes certain managers a bit more careful about such decisions.
In rare cases companies have taken back or at least delayed similar moves, and they never do so without indication that it will indeed affect their bottom line.
Though I don’t think this campaign will have much effect, since asking for a full week is not something many people will follow through with. Also Sony is clearly banking on the fact that customers will stay due to lock-in to their ecosystem.
Yep. The hill my new console owning habits died on was any corp pushing paying to play online subscriptions and I stuck to that. I’ll buy used later if there’s exclusives I want and I can’t just emulate it like Switch 1.
Yeah I went from Sega to ps3 to switch 1 to nothing. But I’ve always owned a PC.
I still really want to play bloodborne, the emulation was rough when I tried it last, but I’m not gonna buy a ps4 just for one game.
How does it actually affect anything?
It gives certain social influencers a soapbox from which they can shout “Like, Subscribe, and Share!”
Modern day “boycotts” aren’t really economic actions. They’re media stunts advanced by affinity marketing groups intended to collect personal information and demonstrate their ability to mobilize large numbers of people.
Why one week? Refuse to buy anything until they revert course
Works for me. My last Playstation was a PS2 lol. Been gaming on PC for over 20 years.
Push for laws that force digital stores to provide full ownership of digital rights.
The ability to pass purchased licenses from one account to another would be a real game changer.
They’re trying to kill ownership completely, and this would blow it wide open.
And that could just be step one. We need assurances about what happens when a store closes (can we download everything and archive it and play offline? will it be moved to another provider?) We need the ability to move purchases between stores. Hell, even between platforms. We need to make sure accounts that have paid for goods cannot be completely revoked under any circumstances. Locked out of online play or prevented from making further purchases, sure, but never just blocked.
Law makers have sat idly by for too long as our rights were taken from us. It’s high time to take them back.
just a week?
the sentiment is nice, but those are rookie numbers. gotta pump it up to at least a month or three.
director boards don’t care unless the quarter looks bad.
I would be absolutely floored of enough people were on board to even make a noticable difference for just one week. Boycotts in the gaming space have been hilariously ineffectual, historically.
Babysteps brother. The roaring blaze of a revolution starts with an ember
You know who would say economic boycotts don’t do anything? A lot of people defending Target a couple years ago. You could ask their CEO at that time, bit he was fired after they set the record for consecutive weeks losing value on their stock.
If you have a console, join in. Maybe they will feel it. AND REMEMBER , one corporation always works to give the others cover to follow. So if you have another console, support. Do it, and tell friends.
set the record for consecutive weeks
Then be sure to tell the organizers to set the record of indefinite consecutive weeks of protest.
remember when Sony was the only console with backwards compatibility? Pepperridge Farm Remembers.
Huh? You could play gameboy games on the SNES?!
with an adapter, yes, but the PS2 and PS3 could run PSX games natively.
Why bother.
Leave Sony. Dont threaten. I walked away after the ps2.
The hardware is the problem and everyone seems to act like the physical media is the issue.
Open hardware or gtfo.
I have a couple PS3’s. Bought used. No online games. I think I’ve bought more of their titles on PC than console.
It’s not even a boycott, I just haven’t seen value in their recent offerings and would rather spend my money elsewhere.
There’s some stuff I’d love to experience on the PS5.
But I will not be spending nearly a thousand dollars for a set top box with limited functionality they can effectively disable when I’m no longer making them enough money.
And with SteamOS getting better and better, the convenience of a console over a PC is becoming less of a thing.
Honestly, once SteamOS has dedicated apps for things like Hulu and Netflix, I think we can really change things. Right now my parents have an Xbox where my Dad can play an occasional game, but the interface is simple enough for my Mom to open her streaming apps. Once SteamOS gets that simple, I’ll be switching them over.
There’s some stuff I’d love to experience on the PS5
Like what?
Astrobot, Horizon, God of War, Ratchet and Clank, etc.
Some of the stuff I like from Sony (Last of US, Spider-man, Returnal) gets ported to PC eventually, but Sony has announced they’re cutting back on that.
Hard to boycott what I already stopped using a good while ago, though…
Don’t use consoles and never preorder. Only buy the good stuff when you actually know it’s good on the shop with the best return policy (which is GOG if the game is available there).
I play on Gentoo btw.Only buy the good stuff when you actually know it’s good
That’s a great way to never get new games. Obviously you have to take some risks, which is why return policies are great
Won’t matter and Sony won’t even notice you did anything, but sure, if it puts another trophy next to the others in your head, go for it.
I sold my PS5 a year ago. They make a new game once every two years and they’re just movie-games and open-world slop. I’ll live.
I could not possibly use my PS5 less. As much as I’d like to actively participate in this boycott, I am only able to passively participate by continuing to neglect my PS5 in favor of PC gaming on linux, which is better in every possible way anyways.
Yeahhh. We’ve got a PS4, and no PS5, initially because of the whole “you cannot back up your saves, at all, except with a cloud subscription” thing but now with this shit… yeah, nah. We’re good with Linux PC (and our PS4 for a very few things).
– Frost
Same I bought a PS5 during the pandemic, played TLOU 1 & 2, God of War, and haven’t touched it since. I have a Bazzite gaming machine I subsequently built so the PS5 has been sitting in the box for years at this point.
I mostly use mine as a glorified blu ray player and use the ps4 media remote with it. Pretty nifty for that purpose can’t lie.
You bought a PS5? I still have a PS4 that hasn’t been turned on in 4 years.
Linux gaming is the way.
