Apparently there will be some boycott of PS in regards of decision to discontinue disks.
From 23 to 30 of August.
Thisll work as well as the fifa world cup boycott.
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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.
How does it actually affect anything?
It gives certain social influencers a soapbox from which they can shout "Like, Subscribe, and Share!"
Modern day "boycotts" aren't really economic actions. They're media stunts advanced by affinity marketing groups intended to collect personal information and demonstrate their ability to mobilize large numbers of people.
Agreed on the last part. But a less cynical take: Companies like Sony obsessively track their sales metrics. If a campaign like this does go viral, and only a few percent of people actually follow through, it does create a noticeable dip in the metrics and an explanation will be demanded internally. There's a small chance this makes certain managers a bit more careful about such decisions.
In rare cases companies have taken back or at least delayed similar moves, and they never do so without indication that it will indeed affect their bottom line.
Though I don't think this campaign will have much effect, since asking for a full week is not something many people will follow through with. Also Sony is clearly banking on the fact that customers will stay due to lock-in to their ecosystem.
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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.
Yeah, switching to PC is a significantly more effective boycott strategy. You can still play games and give Sony $0.
Edit: And yes I realize PC generally doesn't have disks either. However, you aren't locked into PS' store and things like GOG exist. I make a point to buy games on GOG, and so should anyone interested in OP's boycott.
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They’re actually very good at voting with their wallet for the most part. A minority of them are just very dumb and vote against what they’re claiming they want.
Nah, the majority of gamers just don't care.
They just want to play their games and as long as it isn't too many hoops to jump through will stick with Playstation. They didn't even read the news about physical media.
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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.
I have a couple PS3's. Bought used. No online games. I think I've bought more of their titles on PC than console.
It's not even a boycott, I just haven't seen value in their recent offerings and would rather spend my money elsewhere.
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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?
Yep. I also still remember the last PS blackout. That was 24 days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_PlayStation_Network_outage
There's no changing Sony because there's no changing its users.
Sony is going to wipe their tears with all the money they have made from their player base.
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Why one week? Refuse to buy anything until they revert course
just a week?
the sentiment is nice, but those are rookie numbers. gotta pump it up to at least a month or three.
director boards don't care unless the quarter looks bad.
Babysteps brother. The roaring blaze of a revolution starts with an ember
I would be absolutely floored of enough people were on board to even make a noticable difference for just one week. Boycotts in the gaming space have been hilariously ineffectual, historically.
Push for laws that force digital stores to provide full ownership of digital rights.
The ability to pass purchased licenses from one account to another would be a real game changer.
They're trying to kill ownership completely, and this would blow it wide open.
And that could just be step one. We need assurances about what happens when a store closes (can we download everything and archive it and play offline? will it be moved to another provider?) We need the ability to move purchases between stores. Hell, even between platforms. We need to make sure accounts that have paid for goods cannot be completely revoked under any circumstances. Locked out of online play or prevented from making further purchases, sure, but never just blocked.
Law makers have sat idly by for too long as our rights were taken from us. It's high time to take them back.
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I'm still pissed at Sony for the rootkit fiasco. I have not willingly spent one penny on their products since then.
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Have not purchased any Sony consoles or games for Playstation since the PS2. Get on my level!
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I'm doing a #psblackout since I was born but it didn't change anything
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Console plebs won't ever even become aware of the boycott.
remember when Sony was the only console with backwards compatibility? Pepperridge Farm Remembers.
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You know who would say economic boycotts don't do anything? A lot of people defending Target a couple years ago. You could ask their CEO at that time, bit he was fired after they set the record for consecutive weeks losing value on their stock.
If you have a console, join in. Maybe they will feel it. AND REMEMBER , one corporation always works to give the others cover to follow. So if you have another console, support. Do it, and tell friends.
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I will continue not playing playstation, as I have for years. Fuck 'em.
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.
In my region, PS5s were out of stock for a long time. Yesterday new stock came. Approx $200 more expensive than before. That too is for the digital version. 1 week not enough. Should be indefinite. Seeing industry trends, next one might be over $400 more expensive than current gen
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> Gamers when studios layoff thousands of workers:
Boycotts: 0
> Gamers when no discs:
This post
Seriously though, self-identified gamers (I haven't played games in years), learn how to do class solidarity first and maybe you'll get what you want?
Why would play sessions even matter? It would save them bandwidth. All they care about is money. If anything you should download and delete your entire library a thousand times.
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1 day is not enough of a blip for them to even feel. make it a month
I am sure this will go as well as every other "gamer boycott" in the past.
I am in! (I own only the PS1 btw)
Easy I don't own anything Sony besides a PS2
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