Apparently there will be some boycott of PS in regards of decision to discontinue disks.
From 23 to 30 of August.
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Thisll work as well as the fifa world cup boycott.
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.
still willing to drop 80 dollars on it.
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.
Take a principled position for 1 week and watch what happens.
As soon as a timeframe is added, the company will just ignore it, especially something as minor as a week. Boycott should not have an end date, only then would a company start to consider it and maybe try to do something to end it.
Hm I wonder if that list of 17 pages is perhaps sorted to show people in the game who may have either accidentally clicked the join button or are new.
Nah, it’s indicative of how g*mers act.
Some gamers. I am still chillin playing factorio with my player hosted servers and no DRM because the devs are based.
Gamers ≠ g*mers
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.
It will convince some, but probably not enough to make a difference. Sony is betting that the increased revenue per customer will greatly offset those choosing to leave their platform.
The reddit api protest was actually effective if people actually reacted properly. Shutting down the subreddit made reddit go a step to far and force them open. That should have destroyed the community trust in reddit and caused a mass migration. But alas apathy
Didn’t a lot of mods just open up again after by choice too? If more of them took a firm stance then perhaps reddit wouldn’t have been able to replace them all so easily.
I don’t know if there will ever be a better opportunity to have a large anti-reddit movement though, wouldn’t be surprised if they have worked to prevent it since then.
Yes but having reddit step in shows how much it hurt
Yes, and also that it was the time to push harder. Go ahead, make then have to pay people to moderate their platform. See how long that lasts. Even encourage extreme shitposting and upvoting shit content to sabotage the site.
Console plebs won’t ever even become aware of the boycott.
I’m in.
Admittedly I don’t own a PlayStation.
Dang. Guess I’m gonna have to go yet another week keeping my PS2 offline.
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.
remember when Sony was the only console with backwards compatibility? Pepperridge Farm Remembers.
Huh? You could play gameboy games on the SNES?!
with an adapter, yes, but the PS2 and PS3 could run PSX games natively.
Surely it’ll work this time!
if its longer than a week maybe, a week boycott is just a piss in the wind.
For perspective, the Montgomery bus boycott, which is usually used as a prime example of how well boycotts can work, lasted for 381 days.
But yea a 1 week surely will do something.
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.
A single week is a realistic goal.
Realistic in the sense that its easy and won’t do anything I guess.
Although what does not playing your games even achieve? It has a larger cost on you than it does on Sony. Playing games you already bought doesn’t even benefit them.
Surely more effective and easier would be to keep playing the games you already have and just to indefinitely refuse to ever buy another Sony product. You don’t lose anything you already had that way and they take a massive hit on future sales.
You voted with your wallet for this when you bought into their bullshit.
You spent a single dollar at the company so you support everything they do is reductive and juvenile. Try engaging your brain.
You spent a single dollar at the company so you support everything you do
Is a reductive an juvenile way of interpreting the original comment, how ironic. He’s right, it seems during weekends peak PlayStation users go above 100 million, which would mean if even 1 million people followed this boycott, that’s less than 1% of their active user base. It’s too late, and it’s because people like you spend hundreds of dollars for their hardware and service, year after year, and then you belittle it because you’re in denial of making an awful decision.
wow you nailed my spending habits so well considering i get all my games at the library
And what, just stole the PlayStation? If you’ve spent no actual money on Sony then you’re by far the exception of PlayStation owners, and not the norm. It’s funny how you don’t realize that.
The reason I’m laughing at you and not reverb taking the effort to edit or spell check this comment is because your getting worked up over games. Don’t you know there are multiple genocides
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.
Boycotting with a small window, isn’t the whole war, it’s just one shot fired. It gives them an idea of the numbers involved, the amount of people who disagree with their policy, and an idea we won’t just forget and roll over. If they ignore the first shot fired, you fire more, and you get bigger with every shot fired. It’s got to effect their bottom line, or they will ignore it. People who entirely abstain are just measured as not in the argument at all. You don’t give them pressure by never owning a PlayStation. You just aren’t a customer. They count customers. It would even be worthwhile to create a PlayStation account, log in the day before the boycott, and log out for the duration, then log in again the day after the end, so you have a measurable voice in the movement. If you went to their offices, you would just look clinically unhinged, and they would just involve police, and ignore you.
I hate to say it, but your argument is just about assimilation to a system and working within it. You’ve already succumbed to fear and are attempting to be accepted, working within the boundaries of the corporation rather than trying to affect change.
Boycotting with a small window, isn’t the whole war, it’s just one shot fired. It gives them an idea of the numbers involved, the amount of people who disagree with their policy, and an idea we won’t just forget and roll over.
Why must we “give them an idea.” Just do what you say in the very next line:
It’s got to effect their bottom line, or they will ignore it.
Don’t announce an ending to it. Your idea of “let’s fire one shot, and another, and another” is an assimilation tactic within the system, not revolutionary and really only succeeds in exhausting those who seek to fight back.
People who entirely abstain are just measured as not in the argument at all. You don’t give them pressure by never owning a PlayStation. You just aren’t a customer. They count customers.
If they have less customers, does that not affect the bottom line? If they have less customers, and less capture of new customers, is that not…less customers? Therefore less potential ad delivery, less potential to purchase on the storefront, all leading to a lower bottom line?
It would even be worthwhile to create a PlayStation account, log in the day before the boycott, and log out for the duration, then log in again the day after the end, so you have a measurable voice in the movement.
Delete your account. By your same logic above, this would be the most devastating to their bottom line. Not only would they lose customer count, but they lose retention. Logging back in shows that they have nothing to worry about. It looks performative rather than a rejection of the systems in place. Deleted accounts are more powerful than people going on vacation for a week. I promise you that that doesn’t even register within account tracking and finance systems.
If you went to their offices, you would just look clinically unhinged, and they would just involve police, and ignore you.
Sounds like you still fear them and aren’t willing to show true resolve. You’re conceding before you’ve even done anything. Why is it “clinically unhinged” to exercise a first amendment right? It’s the first amendment for a reason. Showing up en masse to peacefully protest would do more than “logging out for a week.” That’s just a vacation. That is where time should be spent by organizers, instead.of organizing 23 weeklong boycotts across the next 2 years, organize a protest and help folks get there with a cohesive message and demands. And, arguably, executives should be scared. They use fear against us all the time, fear we’ll lose our purchases, fear we’ll lose our jobs, our healthcare. The point of a protest, the point of a boycott, is to remind them who holds the power.
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.
Yep, and like with almost every other protest or “boycott” these days, it’s all performative. Most of the people “boycotting” will be online playing their digital games during that week, guaranteed.
