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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Thisll work as well as the fifa world cup boycott.
Don’t think casual gamers will care about this. Most will probably just boot up their games on PlayStation after a long day of work or university.
Halo releases this week. Sony isn’t going to notice anything.
We still doin halos?
👏 Businesses don’t give a fuck about a timed boycott👏
Agreed it should be: starting 23 of August not purchasing any digital games and microtransactions. It would hurt Sony the most
this is a pretty accurate representation of most current day boycotts.
Yup. People can’t sacrifice anything these days to make a statement.
What is especially frustrating is how quickly these corporations would fold under pressure. Take a principled position for 1 week and watch what happens.
The company would only fold under pressure if it was actually an issue a huge percentage of their customers cared about. This isn’t one of them.
At least peer to peer works theoretically forever though. So it’s not the worst way to keep multiplayer alive.
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Dang. Guess I’m gonna have to go yet another week keeping my PS2 offline.
Lol, a single week? So pathetic. I am sure that will show them…
You voted with your wallet for this when you bought into their bullshit.
A boycott that lasts months or years on the other hand…
I’m happy to proclaim entering my 30th continuous year of Sony boycotting. Where’s my award?
My son who plays all the time going go whole month without turning on his PS5.
Fucking week! Thought it whole month of August? Also why wait towards the end? Such weak shit. Why bother they won’t even notice.
Can we please extend this for whole month starting on August the 1st?
You voted with your wallet for this when you bought into their bullshit.
You spent a single dollar at the company so you support everything they do is reductive and juvenile. Try engaging your brain.
The voting happened when this statistically average individual bought digital games over physical, or, after purchasing a physical disk, downloaded any updates.
A single week is a realistic goal.
Realistic in the sense that its easy and won’t do anything I guess.
Although what does not playing your games even achieve? It has a larger cost on you than it does on Sony. Playing games you already bought doesn’t even benefit them.
Surely more effective and easier would be to keep playing the games you already have and just to indefinitely refuse to ever buy another Sony product. You don’t lose anything you already had that way and they take a massive hit on future sales.
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?
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.
Sony is going to wipe their tears with all the money they have made from their player base.
I’m gonna change my profile pic in support
just incase
/s
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.
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.
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.
the reddit thing failed bc the blackout had an end date, so this will fail too
if yall want to make a noticeable impact then stop using playstation (or sony) services until they revert their decision
I do want to give some insight. The reddit blackout did work technically. At least for me. I left reddit during the blackout and joined lemmy. Found it a lot better and remained. Letting people get a taste for not bootlicking a corp during a blackout is a small way to kick start a change.
Sure it might not get measurable change in the way the shareholders would change their mind, but every little discression against major corporations is a step in the right direction and I don’t think the people ITT should be shitting on people for trying to retaliate against Sony, albeit for a short time.
Good point. People are right that a week is unlikely to change much and we should set our sights higher. That said, you are also right that if we approach it with a “this is pointless and will fail” attitude, then no one tries the alternatives at all and the conditions that eventually lead to change will never develop. Best to participate, encourage your IRL friends to participate, and spend the whole week telling everyone who will listen about it.
Cancelling PS Plus would be a much better move. I only use my PS5 for YouTube nowadays, so I won’t be participating since I have to log in for that. But I won’t be playing any games on it or buying anything.
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?
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.
I was under the assumption they were talking about the PS Vita memory sticks which were already expensive at release and haven’t really followed the trend in prices that other SD cards have since then.
That problem is mostly solved these days by the modding scene making the SD2VITA so you can use regular MicroSD cards in the game cartridge slot, but Sony would still have you pay $65 for a 32GB stick of their official storage.
Meanwhile I found an SD2VITA available for $7 and a 128GB MicroSDXC card for $35.
I notice their speaker and AV proprietary connection shit is everywhere … I do audio and HT gear as a side hobby
Not buying a product because you don’t like the product is not a boycott.
1: nobody’s going to do it
2: this is completely boneless. It’s not even calling for people to cancel their PS+ subscriptions.
Cool, but maybe every month instead of a one time thing
I’ve been participating for several years already.
I don’t remember the last time I turned on my PS5.
My PS5 controllers are full time connected to my steam deck.
