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[–] 2 points 12 hours ago

If it makes you feel better, once they've sorted ps5 emulation which seems inevitable at this point, you can burn your cracked version of gta6 to a dvd or blu-ray.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 1 day ago

    When Sony bans your account, you lose all your digital games.

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  • [–] 1 point 19 hours ago* (1 child)

    I buy most of my games on GOG, I don't get disks yet those games are mine, if GOG disappeared tomorrow I would still own them and could still play them (given I keep backups of installers).

    I never had a console so I don't know how it works, but if Sony ever decided that to play your disks you need an online connection they control, having disks won't help you at all.

    We need to fight the right to ownership, that doesn't depend on having disks.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 18 hours ago

    You can have discs and force Sony to upgrade to GOG level of customer service.

    Sony almost never gives out refunds while Steam gives out refunds within 2 hours of gameplay.

    The PlayStation store is region-locked you can’t ever change that and Sony deletes your account after 36 months of inactivity.

    Publishers can also delete your PlayStation games from your library.

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  • [+] -12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (19 children)

    I'm not watching the video, but I'm reasonably confident devastating is a bit of an overreaction. It's the end of an era sure and probably a vast scaling back of their business, but devastating? Nah.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (13 children)

    Easing theft from the consumer, murdering the secondhand market and specialised retailers, breaking the trust of partners. Oh yeah, all minor, petty inconveniences. /s

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Honestly, yes. I don't know anyone else who cares about this. In my circle, I am entirely alone in my frustration. Which bodes poorly for any protests we might mount.

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  • [–] 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately, I'm in the same boat as you. Somehow nobody cares when companies steal from them, but I pick up a mantle ornament and there's suddenly a problem...

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  • [–] 2 points 19 hours ago* (1 child)

    It's tripled my desire and rate of piracy, so there's that. You can only control yourself, after all. But making piracy easier for others as a backhanded dig at Sony would make your point equally well. That's where I'm at. Seed and guide your people's selfishness.

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  • [–] 2 points 14 hours ago

    Pretty much what I'm doing too. You can't save those who are too stupid to realise their heads are being shoved under the water, so help those who have the bare minimum of neurons bouncing around to reach out for help.

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  • [–] -1 points 22 hours ago (8 children)
  • [–] 2 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

    Assuming, for a second, I don't have a PC, I shouldn't care that basic consumer rights are being eroded from under us? If I have a PC, I should automatically not care about physical media being killed off, including music, film and TV? Piss-poor take, my friend. Look beyond the tip of your nose.

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  • [–] -1 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

    You don't have to buy their products?

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  • [–] 1 point 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (5 children)

    Any other canned responses you want to spew? Any other non-solutions your corpo buddies fed you you'd like to regurgitate? Any other assumptions you want to throw down based on nothing?

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  • [–] 0 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

    Corpo buddies? I'm not the one whining about not being able to have a PlayStation, get a grip champ. Consoles have been an over priced shit show for like 2 decades now.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

    I don't recall saying anything about wanting a PlayStation. Specifically several different things, in fact. You sure you know how to read?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago (2 children)

    It's almost like the whole thread is specifically about Sony's PlayStation and their shit policies ..

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago* (1 child)

    And yet you somehow turned it into me wanting a PlayStation and talking down to me despite the conversation being about shitty policies.

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  • [–] 1 point 22 minutes ago

    Why else would you be "devastated" by specifically just Sony's Playstation platform getting rid of fixed media if you didn't own or want to own a PlayStation? If neither of those things apply to you then just sit back and watch them policy themselves into oblivion. My point is (as per my original post) it's not actually devastating, it's just a shit thing, particularly for them and anyone who likes playstations. You seem to see this as the fall of society as a whole because now everything is online. I just see it as just another shit corporation making another shit decision that will ultimately result in less people buying their shit except for idiots who insist their brand represents them for some reason. If you are so "devastated" then get a lawyer and start a class action or lobby your government to do something about it. Or continue screaming into the void, you do you champ.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)
  • [–] 1 point 22 hours ago

    That guy seems pretty flakey anyway, not like his old man, that guy was all about dropping plagues on people and making them murder their children. Jesus was all "wah wah stop being mean". There is no way the Sony execs care what a guy like that says or does.

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