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.

👏 Businesses don't give a fuck about a timed boycott👏

Dang. Guess I'm gonna have to go yet another week keeping my PS2 offline.

I'm in.

Admittedly I don't own a PlayStation.

Why 1 week? Just do it indefinitely. Don't tell them you're coming back, make them have to entice your back. That's how you actually claim material wins. Otherwise they'll just treat you like a whining toddler and wait out your tantrum.

Announcing the end of a protest or boycott has always been the stupidest idea to me. Why give the enemy so much leverage?

If you have to be digital anyway, move to the platform that respects you. Or at least the one where you have more control. And where there are indie titles out the wazoo. And you don't have to pay an additional subscription just to play with your friends.

And while you boycott with no end, contact legislative representatives and organize groups to visit their offices and speak to them to ensure our rights to own when we purchase. Work with SKG and ensure art is allowed to continue existing.

Boycotts don't have start dates. They happen as soon as someone says it happens and you're either in, or you're out.

Boycotts don't have end dates. They happen until demands are met. If that means you never buy/do that thing again, so be it. If you're not prepared to commit all the way, don't participate.

Over time, the definition of "boycott" has been watered down to make people forget what makes a boycott effective. People have forgotten that the Montgomery Alabama bus boycotts lasted for literal years and saw people donating time and money to fixing up old cars, horse-drawn carriages, and carpooling to make them effective.

If you want real change, you have to be prepared to take real action. This one week boycott is pussy shit and won't solve anything. If you're gonna organize, do it for something that will work.

The boycott begins today. Right now. No more PS+ logins or payment. No more buying new games or consoles. No more anything that puts money in Sony's pocket (buying used is fine, that money only goes to the reseller) and it lasts until Sony reverses its decision to stop printing physical games.

If we want to continue boycotting until they revise their digital licensing, we can demand that once we've made progress on the physical media. That's what everyone cares about, so let's keep the demands short and simple with that as the only one.

Gamers are notoriously bad at voting with their wallet so i'm very curious to see what comes of this.

I mean all the power to anybody that actually participates in this but effective boycots don't usually have a start or end date. This looks more like a strike.

You're going to need to get everybody to abandon Sony indefinately. Preferably from right now right up untill demands are met. That way you either get what you want, or you do not at which point you know chasing that point further is futile.

Surely it'll work this time!

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.

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.

Are we Reddit now? A boycott indicating the time it's over so they now when things go back to usual?

A boycott with a deadline isn't a boycott; it's barely a demonstration. A boycott is until demands are met, no sooner. This is controlled opposition. If you want your demands met, don't waste your time organizing for anything less than a real (full, indefinite) boycott.

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?

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

Why bother.

Leave Sony. Dont threaten. I walked away after the ps2.

The hardware is the problem and everyone seems to act like the physical media is the issue.

Open hardware or gtfo.

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 doing a #psblackout since I was born but it didn't change anything

I see these things and laugh every time. One week or even one moth is meaningless, you have to commit. Boycott until you see the change you want. I've been boycotting EA for over a decade now, still haven't see any change but I feel better knowing I am not giving them money.

1: nobody's going to do it

2: this is completely boneless. It's not even calling for people to cancel their PS+ subscriptions.

I'm still pissed at Sony for the rootkit fiasco. I have not willingly spent one penny on their products since then.

Not buying a product because you don’t like the product is not a boycott.

Why stop at just a taste?

These sort of things, if unorganized, just show corps and govs that nothing will change because there is no real organization beyond a call to action.

The real thing to do here is to organize something. Get people to sign up, just a simple list of everyone that agrees to it. Set up some sort of text or mailing list as a reminder, and actually do the thing. This is probably one of the most likely “protests” to succeed with proper organization and initiative because all those that participate have to do is not log on for a day.

It’s gotta be a place to start.

I could not possibly use my PS5 less. As much as I'd like to actively participate in this boycott, I am only able to passively participate by continuing to neglect my PS5 in favor of PC gaming on linux, which is better in every possible way anyways.

Cool, but maybe every month instead of a one time thing

Console plebs won't ever even become aware of the boycott.

Have not purchased any Sony consoles or games for Playstation since the PS2. Get on my level!

This are the same cattle who pre-ordered GTA 6 so it doesn't even matter.

I returned my PS4 when I found on that not only did it not have backwards compatibility, but it kept shoving ads for crappy streaming services in my home screen as links where my games should have been.

Now I'm off Windows, too, and doing just fine gaming on Linux.

Should be one year at minimum , but knowing how game consumers behaviour through decade, i doubt they have the patience, this is group of consumer that spend their money on digital per order repeatedly while taking queue in blind morning for their favorite content excitedly, it is lost cause.

I'm not sure why it's a timed boycott.

I already decided a couple years ago that this is my last console from sony. (likely my last console period tbf) everything else they have done since then has been no concern. I haven't turned my ps5 on more than a handful of times in the last year. No reason to.

Their games are too expensive, are shit quality, and their entire mentality on giving "free" games to subscription members backfired horribly since I never bought any actual games using it, so therefore when I finally cancelled my sub I have nothing to bring me to turn the console on as well.

The Xbox has the same flaw atm, like yea gamepass is an amazing feature but, when you finally cancel that sub... there's nothing left for you, you won't see the advertising or the new games they offer, as you don't have a reason to turn the system on. That was the biggest thing that kept me on my ps3 and 4, when I was playing my actual games, I could slide onto the PS+ area and see what was new, and if something caught my eye I either bought it or downloaded it. With the PS5 and Xbox X nothing has brought me back onto the systems.... so nothing is making me feel like I should continue to spend money on the platforms.