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[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Until and unless they face a mass revolt from their customer base - they will continue to introduce more and more anti-consumer practices.

However, given the general apathy regarding Sony’s decision to discontinue physical media - I don’t have much faith in Gamers^TM^ to rally in their own long-term interests.

[–] brem@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It won't be a revolution, it will be a mass exodus...as many of us have foreseen long ago.

[–] mursejoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 hour ago

Yeah I’m just going to a different hobby. I don’t need to take up arms and fight against Microslop, I’ll just read my ereader with my drm free epubs.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Has any company given back the tariffs?

It honestly sounds like such a huge hassle to try give that money back. The amount of labor required would be huge, you'd need to check every receipt, probably manually. Make sure all of them are legit, aren't double submitted

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 3 points 29 minutes ago

I do not think that doing the right thing is difficult, is the customers problem here. The companies could have also just not given those costs forward to the customer, but they were very happy to do so, because, well... money.

[–] Akido37@lemmy.world 2 points 34 minutes ago

Panic is refunding customers.

[–] brem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

As serious & terrible as it seems: pocketing rebates at the expense of their customers is pretty far down on the list of things they need to worry about.