I'd say just stop buying that shit, but Americans have no self restraint at all. They pre-order digital fucking games to get a pair of cosmetic boots or some stupid shit.
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Well, hell. Let’s all get banned by them so they have a real count of how many customers they are losing.
Inb4 Sony workers in meets a basement destiny branded fedora wearing Luigi.
At least we own our Steam games, wait a minute...
I mean, not with Valve's blessing, but we kinda own them thanks to Goldberg and friends
I'm so glad I never gave any serious amount of money to Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo.
Anything but walking back the physical disc decision
Anything but doing the right thing because money
Seems like at this point bringing back physical discs would be the money making decision
I hope Asha Sharma walks back the plans for Project Helix being digital only, because that would be their #1 advantage next gen IMO
Someone please figure out Linux on ps5 native so I can dump their crappy OS
Requires you to not update. There is potential for firmware 13.6 right now if I remember once someone cracks it
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?
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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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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.
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!"
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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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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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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.
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Megacorp jerks people around and gets all snowflakey when they jerk back
They want to go all digital but can’t withstand cyber bullying. Weakness disgusts me!
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