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.

Console plebs won't ever even become aware of the boycott.

I'm getting rid of my playstation and blocking Sony on my enterprise's network

I sold my PS5 a year ago. So, I already am boycotting..

1 day is not enough of a blip for them to even feel. make it a month

I am in! (I own only the PS1 btw)

I'm doing a #psblackout since I was born but it didn't change anything

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.

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.

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.

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.

It’ll be small indeed based on the number of people who buy physical games.

Also this is what will happen 100%

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

This is easy for me because my playstation is gathering dust in my living room while i play my huge steam backlog.

I don't even own a PlayStation and haven't since the PS3 but I truly hope Sony takes a financial hit on this one. Others such as Microsoft and Nintendo are paying very close attention to the results. If they manage to get away with this you know other consoles won't be far behind them. Hell, they already tried around 2020 causing the start of the whole GameStop short fiasco. Now they're trying to do it once again.

That being said, Sony doesn't give a flying fuck about a blackout. You want to really hit them where it hurts? Dump them. It's the only way.

I fear that Sony will cobble together some release to those days...

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.

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.

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.