For those who don’t know, there has been somewhat of an uproar due to Playstation’s announcement about stopping making disks.
I’ll answer with a question that should well serve as an answer
What boycott?
I think people underestimate the power of collective action. People have been underplaying the strengths of these actions in online discourse to the point where I wonder if its coordinated.
Being loud and boycotting does work. And even if it doesn’t why support anti consumer practices.
The disk battle is the wrong one to fight.
The correct battle is that buying=owning not leasing.
If I know gamers, it will be just as effective as the Modern Warfare 2 PC boycott back in the day
The lack of affordability in the console space will do more. I’d ballpark 95% of playstation purchasers have no idea about Sony’s announcement. And when it finally happens, they’ll just do whatever they need to do to make the game run. But if they just can’t justify the money it takes to do what they need to do, then sony won’t get the money, and they’ll notice.
But no, playstation won’t notice the blip of people who refuse to purchase for long-term ownership reasons.
I don’t think it will matter to them if I boycott them. But that won’t stop me of not buying their products.
Same thing with Target - my yearly $200 I spent there before I started my boycott - won’t even ping the radar. But my ‘boycott’ still going strong.no
All I know is I’m not buying shit from them again.
Yes, the even more powerful way of protesting: not giving a shit.
It’s working for me. I didn’t even know about the boycott and I still don’t have a playstation. It must have succeeded in controlling the narrative.
No it wont.
Since covid, physical media has been declining sales. Since games and other media are only getting larger, it makes sense to have it digitally instead of multiple disks. Consoles and PCs are being made without disk drives.
Nope, nobody really cares about physical media or owning anything anymore
The boycott wont do anything now but I think once they actually stop releasing physical games a lot of people will move to switch to continue collecting, or to PC since it’s more convenient for digital games. If it’s enough to make them change course, I don’t know, but I sure hope so.
It’s a big nothing burger.
NO… the golden age is over… video games are a scam now. Swim against the stream and throw in the towel… cold turkey. Your wallet will thank you. Get a new hobby like masturbation. Anything but giving the PDFiles your money. The turds have entered the building. The fun has been compromised. https://www.aftribune.com/entertainment/epstein-files-expose-how-jeffrey-epstein-pushed-microtransactions-in-video-games/
Get a new hobby like masturbation. Anything but giving the PDFiles your money.
Better be talking about jerkin off using the power of imagination cuz the porn industry is full of pedophilic and rapey circumstances. I’m all pro-sex work but there’s a lottttt of reform in other areas to focus on first IMO
I concur. I just think porn wouldn’t exist in a better world and we all would be gettin our nut. It was a crass joke. Do people eat fast food? They use slave labor. At the end of the day this system makes me dirty. There is no eithical consumtion under capitalism in anyway shape or form. But these over priced video games which are not even that good anymore are a death sentance to a person on a shoe string budget. Refering back to the artical I posted it explains how the groomers control the games. I am not claiming to be profound or a well of wisdom but as a poor shmuck, these video games are for the richers or for fools. So I ain’t nailing anyone to the cross, that is just my take. Econommicaly speaking. Not moraly. Besides who pays for porn? Everybody shakin ass on the net these daze. The internet is free sample costco on steroids. It is either revolution or jerkin. No one can push this gawd damn bolder up the hill on their own. What a sorry state of affairs. Everybody thinking they have morals… individualism… its funny… everybody building hell while seeking heaven. (If the porn became expensive or out of reach… i’d be lookin for the sears catalog.) <— to whom it may concern… this is called a joke. to be fair I am just shooting from the hip in the comments.
That depends entirely on how long gamers are able to stay angry enough to sustain the boycott, and how many of them actually stick to it.
