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Apparently there will be some boycott of PS in regards of decision to discontinue disks.
From 23 to 30 of August.
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.
Why one week? Refuse to buy anything until they revert course
I don't even own a PlayStation and haven't since the PS3 but I truly hope Sony takes a financial hit on this one. Others such as Microsoft and Nintendo are paying very close attention to the results. If they manage to get away with this you know other consoles won't be far behind them. Hell, they already tried around 2020 causing the start of the whole GameStop short fiasco. Now they're trying to do it once again.
That being said, Sony doesn't give a flying fuck about a blackout. You want to really hit them where it hurts? Dump them. It's the only way.
remember when Sony was the only console with backwards compatibility? Pepperridge Farm Remembers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why would play sessions even matter? It would save them bandwidth. All they care about is money. If anything you should download and delete your entire library a thousand times.
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.
With Nintendo doing similarly (with their cartridges simply triggering game downloads), I may never buy a console again.
This is easy for me because my playstation is gathering dust in my living room while i play my huge steam backlog.
If GTA 6 releases tomorrow as digital only they'd stumble over themselves to grab their wallets.
It's all performative.
> 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?
I am in! (I own only the PS1 btw)
1 day is not enough of a blip for them to even feel. make it a month
I'm on year ~15 of this.
This generation of consoles is the end of the line for me so I'm going to enjoy what I can but I'm not spending another penny on their digital storefronts.
Shouldn’t be difficult, the only time I still use my PS5 is remote replaying some of my old digital catalog or if a relative gave me a gift card
I usually go months without using mine already. What would this even really do? They don't make money on the system simply being turned on, and they might have reduced costs in their server bill if everyone stops using them for a week or two.
Everyone should try and log into their account at once, multiple times a day to ddos the thing. 😌
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.
I am sure this will go as well as every other "gamer boycott" in the past.
Lol, we all know just how effective gamer boycotts have been in the past.