Anything but walking back the physical disc decision
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2026
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Anything but doing the right thing because money
Someone please figure out Linux on ps5 native so I can dump their crappy OS
That leaves only one available option for protest. I don't think they want to funnel everyone into moving away from PlayStation entirely. Or maybe they do, maybe xbox infiltrated and is taking them down from the inside, wait, where's my popcorn...
Moving away from Sony as much as possible. I may or may not use questionable websites to watch anime and movies. and I sold all my Sony stuff except a PS3 and Headphones, which will also be sold.
I dunno, maybe keep anything you can pirate on, right? Because that would hit them harder?
That's good for some but usually these websites arise as soon as they go down. It also makes for a grey area since you don't have the media on your hard drive. That's why Sony tries so hard to shut them down and push their crunch hole subscription. I think they shot themselves in the foot already enough that just not buying their stuff is effective. The silent No Thank You approach is really effective pretty much for everything.
I think they were implying you should put custom firmware on your PS3 so you could just play pirated games on it, rather than selling them.
I see, I didn't know that was a thing. I mostly play on my computer.
Ah, yes. Desperately falling back on making a tone argument of all things is a sure fire indicator that somebody doesn't have a single leg left to stand on. Sony's decades-long pattern of behavior does not put them in a position to be able to enjoy that luxury.
In other words: Get the fuck outta here with that.
IDK, some of those demands are absolutely reasonable. Nobody should be making threats or visiting their facilities.
Just stop buying products connected to Sony. I did when they did the helldivers account thing back in the day. That's why I never played helldivers, actually.
Protesting outside facilities should be allowed. Though honestly pointless, just give them what they want and leave their ecosystem
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ITT: People who don't understand how call centers work.
It is very rare for companies the size of Sony to maintain their own call centers for frontline customer support. They contract with a call center to run a campaign for them.
For these call centers, the huge campaigns are their life blood, and they won't do anything to upset the client. Your complaints are very likely not being passed on.
Furthermore, the candidate pool for call centers is anyone desperate enough to work in a call center. The amount of homeless agents is high enough that scabies and bed bugs are a common problem on-shore.
So, by calling and being abusive to a CS agent, there's a decent chance you're abusing a homeless person for absolutely no benefit.
The only reason Sony cares is because turnover from abuse and tied up agents costs money.
"You fools! You're not even talking to us, you're talking to a homeless person! We will never hear what you have to say!"
Lmao this is fucked up. I hate that I've sunk so much money into digital PlayStation games. At least I have benefitted somewhat. 1 digital game = 2 games for myself and my spouse. So I have somewhat saved money in a way. Fuck.
My plan is to save all my digital games on external HHD's... Pain in the ass, but it should work.
Won't they still need to phone home when you try to play them? Digital only means having the files won't matter if they hit a remote kill switch on your ability to boot it up.
Once a game has been downloaded and the console has been online with it installed after the refund window has closed, it should be given a perpetual license if then taken offline and never need to phone home again.
I'm not entirely sure of the specifics tbh, but I have moved full digital games to an HDD and back with no issues. I dont have any "connection required" games personally.
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Any open source consoles? lol
steam machine is the closest
We made a bad decision and people got upset.
The problem according to Sony: the people.
Get bent Sony, you put your front line workers through this bullshit, you don't get to cry foul. How fucking stupid.
Like 95% of this I agree with. Don’t harass support people who have no decision making on this and are just trying to make a living.
But
unreasonable demands for compensation or apologies
Fucking really? Asking for refunds is bad now?
Nothing more offensive to a capitalist than trying to get your money back
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It's perfectly reasonable too
I mean they are the customer facing entity of the company. Of course they are going to get angry customers calling in and voicing their grievances because of the actions of Sony.
And that's why they employ the cheapest labor to deal with it, it's just a front, they don't give a shit. What can the support staff do? Not much, I'd wager, and I'd wager that that shit rightfully would piss some customers off.
They're literally employed as an abuse filter.
AI chat assistant incoming in 3...2....1...
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My decade+ long boycott of Sony's garbage is looking more and more prescient every day.
I am on a boycott since the Sony Rootkit Scandal.
I've been out since they forced me to either remove dual boot from my p3 or stop playing games on it.
I had TV's Receivers, Speakers, cameras. They can go F themselves.
A beautiful case to bring up to anti piracy boot lickers.
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Megacorp jerks people around and gets all snowflakey when they jerk back
Has Sony just dared it's entire customer base to take part in a forced boycott?
The equivalent of somebody getting themselves barred from a pub/bookies/casino because they know that they can't do it on their own.
They won’t do it. Gta is coming out. They are too cucked.
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My initial read of the headline was that Sony would now make it a policy to harass its customers that do not agree with the new plans…
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