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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Boycotts don’t have start dates. They happen as soon as someone says it happens and you’re either in, or you’re out.
Boycotts don’t have end dates. They happen until demands are met. If that means you never buy/do that thing again, so be it. If you’re not prepared to commit all the way, don’t participate.
Over time, the definition of “boycott” has been watered down to make people forget what makes a boycott effective. People have forgotten that the Montgomery Alabama bus boycotts lasted for literal years and saw people donating time and money to fixing up old cars, horse-drawn carriages, and carpooling to make them effective.
If you want real change, you have to be prepared to take real action. This one week boycott is pussy shit and won’t solve anything. If you’re gonna organize, do it for something that will work.
The boycott begins today. Right now. No more PS+ logins or payment. No more buying new games or consoles. No more anything that puts money in Sony’s pocket (buying used is fine, that money only goes to the reseller) and it lasts until Sony reverses its decision to stop printing physical games.
If we want to continue boycotting until they revise their digital licensing, we can demand that once we’ve made progress on the physical media. That’s what everyone cares about, so let’s keep the demands short and simple with that as the only one.
but it makes those people feel good about themselves.
Couldn’t agree more!
Just cancelled my PS+ subscription with reason “other”.
I’ll see you all on the seven seas!
Wait so you’re going to stop buying physical PlayStation games and instead …. pirate pc games?
Most important features of physical media are transferability (you can give the game to someone else and it will run) and autonomous access (you can run your game even if Sony or simply your Internet connection go down). Piracy typically checks both of these boxes.
It may not hold a collector’s value if that’s what you’re after, but I’d argue this is secondary anyway. And if you simply want to hold a bunch of game disks, you can always buy an empty disk and put the game in there.
Just FYI because seemingly no one appears to know this, but if your console is set as your “home console”, you can play all of your digital games offline, forever, on it. You can back them up to external drives, and copy them back over to the console at any time and play them, even in a nuclear submarine under the ocean.
The “home console” thing make it store all of your licenses locally, so there is no need to connect to auth servers ever on that console to play the existing games. I used to have every single game I own on Xbox backed up on external drives, but couldn’t be bothered after a while as I have no issues with internet.
If I lost internet for a bit and couldn’t play a specific game because I didn’t have it downloaded, I’d just play something else until I have internet again. That’s not something I lose sleep over.
The more I know!
I imagine this is going to lead to a resurgence of the homebrew scene. Not sure if I’ll find games in the forest, or just get my fix watching a streamer long play the games I’m interested in.
No physical, no purchase. Period.
Technically pirated games can be put on a physical media and stored indefinitely, neither do those require online connection afterwards, so Sony cant just remove those and Sony won’t be getting any money or user metrics for it either.
While not a perfect solution, it’s a decent stopgap and will get more people on board than fully abstaining.
But the PS5 can’t play pirated games……
and instead …. pirate pc games?
Yeah PS5 games can’t, but PC games can be.
… can’t play pirated games yet.
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 sold my PS5 a year ago. So, I already am boycotting…
> Gamers when studios layoff thousands of workers:
Boycotts: 0
> Gamers when no discs:
This post
Seriously though, self-identified gamers (I haven’t played games in years), learn how to do class solidarity first and maybe you’ll get what you want?
Easy I don’t own anything Sony besides a PS2
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
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
edit: i dunno if posting a discord CDN link will work but i’ll see if i can attach it…
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.
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.
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
Wow! It’s worthless!
As if a back out will convince a corporation that they are doing bad things and give up and change their minds.
Remember reddit black out?
I’m gonna change my profile pic in support
just incase
/s
Sony is going to wipe their tears with all the money they have made from their player base.
Yep. I also still remember the last PS blackout. That was 24 days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_PlayStation_Network_outage
There’s no changing Sony because there’s no changing its users.
I’m getting rid of my playstation and blocking Sony on my enterprise’s network
I’m still pissed at Sony for the rootkit fiasco. I have not willingly spent one penny on their products since then.
Remember their stupid proprietary memory sticks?
Proprietary in design? Cause ps1, 2 and 3 had the memory cards and those were sold by MadCatz, Neon and there was another really good third party seller that sold those. The PSP original ran off of of regular memory sticks that you could use literally any brand but the speeds and quality of the Sony ones were set to specs for the PSP, like the Nintendo cards are set to specs for the system but in reality you can use nearly any SD card.
So whatchu talking about?
For the original PSP, which uses Memory Stick (Pro) Duo, there exist third party adapters to use 1 or 2 microSD cards.
But with the PSP Go, they introduced the Memory Stick M2, which is dimensioned in such a way, that microSD Adapters are impossible.
With the PS Vita, they introduced yet another format, very similar to the M2 in size, but different enough to be incompatible. Again, no microSD card adapters exist, if it wasn’t for nifty homebrew hacks utilizing the game card slot, there would be no way to use microSD cards at all.This: Memory stick pro
A bunch of their laptops and the PSP/etc would only support these instead of a normal a USB flash drive. And Sony’s stupid proprietary memory stick cost like 2x what other storage mediums cost.
1 day is not enough of a blip for them to even feel. make it a month
Gamers are notoriously bad at voting with their wallet so i’m very curious to see what comes of this.
I mean all the power to anybody that actually participates in this but effective boycots don’t usually have a start or end date. This looks more like a strike.
You’re going to need to get everybody to abandon Sony indefinately. Preferably from right now right up untill demands are met. That way you either get what you want, or you do not at which point you know chasing that point further is futile.
Yeah, switching to PC is a significantly more effective boycott strategy. You can still play games and give Sony $0.
Edit: And yes I realize PC generally doesn’t have disks either. However, you aren’t locked into PS’ store and things like GOG exist. I make a point to buy games on GOG, and so should anyone interested in OP’s boycott.
The comparison still doesn’t make sense. You can’t play a PlayStation disc on a different platform. If you buy a disc on console you are locked to that ecosystem.
Sony are doing this because not enough people buy discs to make it worth manufacturing, and PC gamers should know this because this new age of digital gaming started with the PC. Switching to PC just proves their point.
You are locked to the ecosystem, but the disc function can’t be revoked through account ban and is actually transferable to other people because of that.
Something Sony dislikes compared to digital where there is no second hand market.
Switching to PC proves the point that if games are digital people prefer open hardware and open OS options over locked down hardware.
However, you aren’t locked into PS’ store and things like GOG exist. I make a point to buy games on GOG, and so should anyone interested in OP’s boycott.
While this is true, releases on GOG are few and far between and all the other stores are just (bad) variations of the same thing. Online web stores are very very far from functioning like brick and mortar stores for physical releases used to.
We primarily have “competition” on pc in online stores because some publishers are big enough to build their own just so they don’t have to pay Valve to be on Steam. So you are not technically locked to one store, but you are very much locked to whatever store publishers choose to push their game to.
So essentially you’re locked to all of them unless you choose to just not play said game, which is essentially the same choice you have on the Playstation with just the PS store.
Oh well. They dont want to sell my the game, then I don’t need the game.
PC is the only chance at you controlling the hardware, so it’s the only choice.
Big difference for me is PC is open hardware and open OS. Should the worst happen there are possible solutions from those voyaging the seas.
But, consoles are locked down, and jailbreaks can be years away.
Its why despite buying digital on PC without issue I continued to buy physical for consoles, since I felt more in control of PC hardware than I did console hardware. Physical on consoles was a way of gaining back some control despite the hardware being locked.
They’re actually very good at voting with their wallet for the most part. A minority of them are just very dumb and vote against what they’re claiming they want.
Nah, the majority of gamers just don’t care.
They just want to play their games and as long as it isn’t too many hoops to jump through will stick with Playstation. They didn’t even read the news about physical media.
This is the crowd that preorders a DIGITAL ONLY game that hasn’t released a single lick of gameplay video. GTA 6 is proof that capital g Gamers are a lost cause.
The sane people that game have to just stay away from all the ball and gun Gamers, and support the indie scene.
I think part of it is people don’t forego convenience but also that we’ve allowed corporations to cement hegemonies that there honestly is very little ability to boycott.
Some industries are so centralized it’s impossible to effectively boycott and vote with your wallet.
