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So they invest millions in a project that fundamentally failed, ax the official servers prematurely and pretend it doesn't exist.
But then go after people who still bother with it.
They ought to be fucking thankful people still play it at all.
So, it's all about control, at the end.
more like sony is begging people to forget about sony. Even when people do something that could benefit them they punish them. (concord failed, but this way there could have been a chance people might have gotten interested in it again and they could have tried opening official servers again, with basically no risk, and start selling the game again). They rather eat up millions of losses than give ANY agency to the users. And ultimately, isnt this just people trying to make the game they paid for work? How is this different from a scam anyway? They got what little money they got and those who gave it to them got nothing for it.
Dont buy anything shitty companies like this make. By doing so you enable them and are part of the problem.
StopKillingGames? More like StopMurderingGamesAndExecutingThemInColdBlood.
Assholes
My understanding is they refunded everyone who bought it.
Still dumb for them to do this, don't mistake me.
There's isn't even an IP argument to be had. They abandoned the game, so why pay a lawyer to ~~sew~~sue?
Edit to correct.
So how can we help set up more servers to cost them even more legal fees?
I'm new to the Linux scene, but if you find a bot that does this, I'll totally run it.
IANAL but, just because they abandoned the game doesn't mean they don't own the IP. It's still their IP and unfortunately IP laws everywhere suck ass. IP law only works if you defend your IP. If you don't defend it then it can weaken IP protection on other IP you own. Even if you don't actively use the IP you still need to defend it to keep up protection on your other IP.
so why pay a lawyer to sew?
I hate to be that person but just in case you wanted to know, it's spelled sue.
sew: to unite or fasten by stitches
sue: to seek justice or right from a person by legal process, specifically to bring an action against
Fuck me I can't go two days in a row without a spelling mistake! Also don't apologize, I would rather be embarrassed once now, than potentially infinitely in the future!
BTW, to answer your original question: just because someone is a lawyer doesn't mean that can't also know how to sew. I wouldn't be surprised to find a darning egg or two in a legal professional's briefcase. They do have to wear fancy suits, after all.
Lol, this is so apropos! I just started studying law and am a bad ass needle pointer.
They really hate their own fans. Be aware of that next time you purchase any Sony product.
I stopped buying anime when they bought up all the major NA distributors.
you'd think they would be happy people are going out of their way to preserve the service. It gives them excuse to shut down their servers if they can point to these. but nope
It gives them excuse to shut down their servers if they can point to these.
I'm pretty sure they already shut down all their servers. They refunded everyone and try to forget the game ever happened.
Oh it's never about that. You can't milk a game that lives for free. Although they pay for publicity (ads, etc.), getting it for free means less cash flow, means less numbers on quarterly earnings, means less investor money.
It is always about the number on their bank account, never about you, me, or anyone else. They don't give a flying fuck, they'd happily let us burn in a house fire if it meant just a teensy bit more dollars.
Fuck Sony, Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, ActiBlizzosoft, and the rest of them.
Blame the suits, they got into the video game business once Atari became a household word.
It all comes down to Japanese peoples' bizarrebeliefs. They see modding their games as a shameful behavior because they compare it to plagiarism. As ridiculous as it is, they see it as stealing their ideas instead of coming up with your own. In their eyes you should be making your own game from scratch instead of ressurecting theirs.
It's the same reason why Nintendo is so god damn evil. In their eyes they're doing the honorable thing by suing their own customer base.
They see modding their games as a shameful behavior
Seems some of them are avowed purists.
They also think modding is a form of cheating, as in supposedly breaking the game mechanics, forgetting that some games are good visually but have awful difficulty or needing more immersion.
Its bad press for them. The whole game is bad news for them all the way around. I bet they won't ever mention it by name again.
Pissing off perhaps the only fans of this failure lol
Ahh yes, just the PR Sony wants after Valve dropped an atomic bomb of an announcement.
Once in a while Sony reconfirms my choice to boycott them since the rootkit CD scandal in the 00s.
I think I've boycotted sony for one thing or the other for the large part of my adult life. Only backed down in 2021 and bought some shares. Time to return back to normal I guess.
Same. I'll never make the mistake of purchasing a Sony product ever again
Are people still having anything to do with Sony? The absolutly worst compny ever, Comcast is second place. Complete shit.