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Apparently there will be some boycott of PS in regards of decision to discontinue disks.
From 23 to 30 of August.
Don’t think casual gamers will care about this. Most will probably just boot up their games on PlayStation after a long day of work or university.
Halo releases this week. Sony isn't going to notice anything.
👏 Businesses don't give a fuck about a timed boycott👏
Seriously, timed blackouts and petitions are just being performative. If someone actually cares, sell your ps5/move to another platform. Nothing else matters. This is like how sports game fans complain every year that the game sucks but are still willing to drop 80 dollars on it.
Agreed it should be: starting 23 of August not purchasing any digital games and microtransactions. It would hurt Sony the most
this is a pretty accurate representation of most current day boycotts.
Yup. People can't sacrifice anything these days to make a statement.
What is especially frustrating is how quickly these corporations would fold under pressure. Take a principled position for 1 week and watch what happens.
Dang. Guess I'm gonna have to go yet another week keeping my PS2 offline.
My PS3 will have to stay thoroughly boxed up on the basement.
Why 1 week? Just do it indefinitely. Don't tell them you're coming back, make them have to entice your back. That's how you actually claim material wins. Otherwise they'll just treat you like a whining toddler and wait out your tantrum.
Announcing the end of a protest or boycott has always been the stupidest idea to me. Why give the enemy so much leverage?
If you have to be digital anyway, move to the platform that respects you. Or at least the one where you have more control. And where there are indie titles out the wazoo. And you don't have to pay an additional subscription just to play with your friends.
And while you boycott with no end, contact legislative representatives and organize groups to visit their offices and speak to them to ensure our rights to own when we purchase. Work with SKG and ensure art is allowed to continue existing.
Boycotts don't have start dates. They happen as soon as someone says it happens and you're either in, or you're out.
Boycotts don't have end dates. They happen until demands are met. If that means you never buy/do that thing again, so be it. If you're not prepared to commit all the way, don't participate.
Over time, the definition of "boycott" has been watered down to make people forget what makes a boycott effective. People have forgotten that the Montgomery Alabama bus boycotts lasted for literal years and saw people donating time and money to fixing up old cars, horse-drawn carriages, and carpooling to make them effective.
If you want real change, you have to be prepared to take real action. This one week boycott is pussy shit and won't solve anything. If you're gonna organize, do it for something that will work.
The boycott begins today. Right now. No more PS+ logins or payment. No more buying new games or consoles. No more anything that puts money in Sony's pocket (buying used is fine, that money only goes to the reseller) and it lasts until Sony reverses its decision to stop printing physical games.
If we want to continue boycotting until they revise their digital licensing, we can demand that once we've made progress on the physical media. That's what everyone cares about, so let's keep the demands short and simple with that as the only one.
I'm in.
Admittedly I don't own a PlayStation.
I haven't owned a Sony console since the PS2, but I will gladly double, even triple, my effort to continue to do nothing!
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.
Lol, a single week? So pathetic. I am sure that will show them...
You voted with your wallet for this when you bought into their bullshit.
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.
A boycott with a deadline isn't a boycott; it's barely a demonstration. A boycott is until demands are met, no sooner. This is controlled opposition. If you want your demands met, don't waste your time organizing for anything less than a real (full, indefinite) boycott.
the reddit thing failed bc the blackout had an end date, so this will fail too
if yall want to make a noticeable impact then stop using playstation (or sony) services until they revert their decision
I thought that was the stupidest thing, the Reddit "blackout". Company doesn't care. It's a metric. It's a line on a graph. When stakeholders ask they'll point to it and say "This was are anticipated backlash from the Q2 decision to ban 3rd party APIs, but as you can see we already recovered and have grown at our normal pace."
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.
Cancelling PS Plus would be a much better move. I only use my PS5 for YouTube nowadays, so I won't be participating since I have to log in for that. But I won't be playing any games on it or buying anything.
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'm doing a #psblackout since I was born but it didn't change anything
Are we Reddit now? A boycott indicating the time it's over so they now when things go back to usual?
Oh yeah like the API hissy fits that shown just how weak reddit protests really are.
I'm still pissed at Sony for the rootkit fiasco. I have not willingly spent one penny on their products since then.
I could not possibly use my PS5 less. As much as I'd like to actively participate in this boycott, I am only able to passively participate by continuing to neglect my PS5 in favor of PC gaming on linux, which is better in every possible way anyways.
Not buying a product because you don’t like the product is not a boycott.
1: nobody's going to do it
2: this is completely boneless. It's not even calling for people to cancel their PS+ subscriptions.
I returned my PS4 when I found on that not only did it not have backwards compatibility, but it kept shoving ads for crappy streaming services in my home screen as links where my games should have been.
Now I'm off Windows, too, and doing just fine gaming on Linux.
I've been participating for several years already.
I don't remember the last time I turned on my PS5.
My PS5 controllers are full time connected to my steam deck.
Cool, but maybe every month instead of a one time thing
Console plebs won't ever even become aware of the boycott.
I see these things and laugh every time. One week or even one moth is meaningless, you have to commit. Boycott until you see the change you want. I've been boycotting EA for over a decade now, still haven't see any change but I feel better knowing I am not giving them money.
Remember that screenshot of Steam group "boycott modern warfare 2" with almost every player with "in game: modern warfare 2"
My last console was the PS2 and i still have it and the games i played on it and i have been on PC since then and none of the exclusives on any console have made me consider buying any of them.
Won't matter and Sony won't even notice you did anything, but sure, if it puts another trophy next to the others in your head, go for it.
I sold my PS5 a year ago. They make a new game once every two years and they're just movie-games and open-world slop. I'll live.
Have not purchased any Sony consoles or games for Playstation since the PS2. Get on my level!
These sort of things, if unorganized, just show corps and govs that nothing will change because there is no real organization beyond a call to action.
The real thing to do here is to organize something. Get people to sign up, just a simple list of everyone that agrees to it. Set up some sort of text or mailing list as a reminder, and actually do the thing. This is probably one of the most likely “protests” to succeed with proper organization and initiative because all those that participate have to do is not log on for a day.
It’s gotta be a place to start.