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[–] TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

How many people do you think there are online complaining about this? 1,000,000? 10,000,000?

Let's be unreasonably generous and say that 100,000,000 people are online right now, incensed by this move! That's 2.7% of gamers.

At least TRY and put your opinions into some kind of perspective before acting like they are universal truths...

[–] DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Wll I mean if we're just going off the perspectives being offered online the ONLY person I've seen defend this is you, who worked with console companies in the past.

On the other hand even entire development and retail companies with huge skin in the game like Nippon Ichi Software, Atari, Iam8bit, and the Entertainment Retailers Association have voiced that they are against this.

Wanna know what's even better? Sony did this without telling a single one of their partners they were going to do this. And you trust them to make the right moves with the things I buy from them? They don't even respect their fucking publishers and retail partners.

So far only companies I can find FOR this decision are the ones you have worked for which, color me shocked, think that they are making the right decision!

[–] TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

There is no right or wrong decision... still lost on the concept of subjectivity eh?

[–] DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 minutes ago

Yes there is. The wrong decision is the one that is anti consumer as Sony will learn in the following years after this is implemented.