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My decade old Sony boycott looks more & more prescient every week.
I should've listened to the haters. I got way too leveraged into Sony's ecosystem and so now I suffer.
The good is I still have enough PC games that I actually own (well, control) to last me for years and years and years.
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Seems illegal.
ill be sure to tell my siblings to sign into my account every 3 years. gee thanks sony. whats the fucking point of this
Preventing the recovery of temporarily abandoned accounts (like from a family member that stopped gaming some time ago), and saving a few cents in storage.
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It's updates like this that make me wish for a 'git diff' of those changes.
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This is for UK and EU due to GDPR that requires companies delete all user data for inactive accounts. It's a unintended consequences of the law and other gaming companies including Xbox have similar clauses.
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Huh. That's actually a little disappointing. I have a couple of exclusives on there that I would prefer not to lose. But I also no longer own any modern PlayStation consoles, nor am I likely to in the future. So trying to decide if this is going to be the thing that makes me leave Sony for good, or if I should just make a little effort to login from time to time.
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Note that technically the agreement says that Sony reserves the right to delete the account after 36 months, not that they'll actually do it. It might "just" be a stupid bit of legalese to cover Sony's ass in case they're required to delete older data.
Of course the idea is worrying nonetheless.
note my myself: whenever entering a contract with u/ChairmanMeow@programming.dev just tell him those terms that are not in his favor are just legalese for some edge case and I certainly will voluntarily not make any use of those terms that are totally in my favor and they should not worry.
I feel like this would actually work on most people
if they can delete someones account and potentially make them buy everything again (at least that is how i think the executives must view it) why wouldnt they?
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Wow this seems like a gross overstep of boundaries . Fuckin, oh well i guess
"How do we squander 3 decades of consumer goodwill in a week and a half?" Seriously wtf are you doing Sony
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I jumped after PS3. I logged in one day to find a message that the Smash Brothers clone I enjoyed was removed from my library and the servers shut down. Just, out of nowhere. Also, the low frame rate and FOV in some games started giving me motion sickness consistently. I do miss the simplicity of owning consoles and the excitement of new hardware releases.
also found out switch deletes your cloud saves after a while if you stop paying
Is this an attempt to temporarily artifically inflate unique account activity metrics for self-congratulation and shareholder ego stroking?
(This month X millions players logged in to play games, which is a significant increase from before!)
As per another comment, I didn't know Gmail can delete an account after 2 years of inactivity. Proton mail is only 12 months on the free plan. With so many things being related to email I feel like I should have a more robust system.