Chris Plein @MetroidFan1593

“protest never works” is a lie echoed to suppress the unhappy

Pubity @pubity

2 days ago

Tech CEOs now fear for their lives due to massive backlash toward AI, with many executives employing 24/7 security guards just to make them feel safer.

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PlayStation Store former Vice President claims video games won't become cheaper by going 100% digital🚀 “The video game industry is not incentivized to create products whose price is determined simply by their production cost. The preferable approach is to maximize revenue whenever possible. The selling price will remain fixed, regardless of whether the game is sold in physical or digital format.” This is Sony’s all-digital future Pay more for less quality, no ownership, no ability to trade or resell, no options, no soul, and no respect from the company towards customers. NO DISC 💿 NO BUY

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We watched Trump's dangerous and deranged speech so you don't have to. Here are the moments you need to know about: — He openly laid groundwork to challenge the midterms. He claimed our elections were "compromised," clearly setting up the justification to tamper with results before a single vote is counted. — He said he'll "correct vulnerabilities" in our elections. Translation: he told you exactly what he plans to interfere with. — He contradicted himself on China in real time. He first claimed China was "working to influence" and "undermining confidence" in him, then said he was doing a "great job" with them back when he made the claim. He couldn't keep his own conspiracy straight. — He claimed China rigged the 2020 election, this time by getting journalists to write bad stories about him, because China supposedly wanted Biden to win since Trump was "wise to them." — He said they found "burn bags" from the Obama Administration full of supposedly incriminating material, without ever saying what was actually in them. — He said he needs "urgent measures" to stop our elections from being "hacked," citing Maduro's rigged machines in Venezuela in 2020 as his "evidence." — He attacked networks for not airing him live, accusing them of being "part of the conspiracy to rig elections" and suggesting they should lose their broadcast licenses. — He announced he wants to seize voter data from states he's deemed "vulnerable" ahead of the midterms. This was a sitting president telegraphing, step by step, how he plans to undermine the 2026 midterms with egregious lies and conspiracy theories.

What does a digital-only future mean for video games and gamers?🚀 ❗️Most store fronts can remove any game at any time for any reason without compensation (Sony itself did that with 500 movies just few weeks ago) ➡️You are paying full price under the presumption of purchase, while you’re basically renting “access” for the price of a purchase, that can be taken at any time ❗️Most physical games can work without downloads, internet or being tied to an ID ➡️Digital-only future forces connectivity with the internet and a digital storefront ❗️~121 countries do not have PlayStation Store dedicated to their country ✅Nearly 64% of the world has no legal/official way to obtain games through PS Store ❗️PlayStation Store has no ability to migrate an account into a different region ✅If you move to another country, and want to use your new local credit card, you won’t be able to use the same store, per their terms conditions ❗️PlayStation has been testing dynamic pricing (different prices for the same product in different areas) ✅When Sony creates a monopoly on games, they can raise prices on a whim, without much competition or alternatives ❗️Different stores for physical video games offer a wide range of pricing/offers, more often than not, less than what is offered on PSN ✅Stores can offer empty boxes with a code on discount, but with ownership and trading/second hand market gone, there won’t be much of an alternative or that big of a difference in pricing, and physical is about more than just buying empty boxes and digital is about the convenience and not going to the store only to get a paper code ❗️Physical games can be traded and resold, and therefore even more convenient pricing ✅Once again, a digital monopoly by Sony will benefit them and negatively impact players ❗️Digital game “purchases” are tied to one account ✅If your account is hacked, banned, lost or moved, you might lose all your games. And when it’s a monopoly, all kinds of new terms can be imposed and they can hold your purchases above their heads and make you comply or lose them So physical games aren’t just about nostalgia, or a delivery method, it’s about having agency over purchases and not being at the mercy of a digital storefront’s policy and permission NO DISC 💿 NO BUY

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New from me: The KIDS Act tried to avoid KOSA's glaring First Amendment problems, but no matter which way you skin a cat, it still violates the constitution (at least I think that's how the saying goes):

Dicen que el formato físico no vende, pero.. ➡️ Las tiendas tienen que hacer varias tiradas de stock para satisfacer a los usuarios y aún así muchos se quedan sin copia. ➡️ Se agotan sus ediciones deluxe y coleccionista a los minutos o pocas horas de ser anunciadas en cualquier lado. ➡️ Títulos como Expedition 33, Resident Evil Requiem, Crimson Desert e infinidad de otros títulos son ejemplos de lo gigantesco que es el mercado físico de los videojuegos y lo famoso que sigue siendo. ¿Pero por qué son tan queridos? ➡️ Con el físico eres el dueño real de tus videojuegos. ➡️ Tus juegos no caducan, no te los va a poder quitar nadie ni obligarte a volverlos a comprar con excusas. ➡️ No necesitan internet para instalar y jugar sus versiones base. ➡️ Puedes venderlos y recuperar parte de la inversión. ➡️ No necesitan estar ligados a cuentas compartidas de ningún tipo, son totalmente libres. ➡️ Contribuyes a que este arte prolifere y sea más accesible para todos los públicos al venderse a precios más reducidos. ➡️ Al consumirlo, ayudas a que tiendas especializadas y sus trabajadores puedan seguir ofreciendo un servicio necesario. ❌ Que quieran que desaparezca NO es el orden natural de las cosas como pasó con los CD o los casettes, si no una imposición a largo término por parte de las empresas, que han ido mermando sus opciones para abaratar costes, centralizar precios, quitarnos libertades y atarnos a una tienda online inflada a base de licencias temporales. ✅ En solamente España, alrededor del 35% de los juegos vendidos son juegos físicos y solo es superada por Japón. Y aún hay quien, tras saber todo esto, se posiciona a favor de Sony PlayStation. 💥 ¡DESPERTAD! No creáis todos los bulos que leáis de medios y analistas cómplices, detractores desinformados o bots en comentarios que solo quieren acallaros y manipularos. ✅ La realidad es que este es un formato que mueve a muchos millones de personas y dinero alrededor del mundo y es la salvaguarda de nuestro medio, el formato que asegura el futuro sano de este hobbie tanto para fans del físico, como del digital. Ni silencio, ni olvido. Lucha diaria hasta que nos lo devuelvan. ¿Quiénes estáis conmigo? 💪🏼 SAVE THE DISC 📀 SAVE VIDEOGAMES

Crunchyroll/Sony needs us more than we need them. Cut them off.

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GameSpot @GameSpot

4 days ago

Sony-Owned Crunchyroll Is Now Kneecapping Physical Anime Sales dlvr.it/TTYQwD

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You guys retired the dislike button because 1. YouTube Rewinds were getting millions of dislikes 2. Corrupt companies who make awful decisions would upload videos and get spammed with dislikes. They then told you to remove dislikes so they don’t look bad.

TeamYouTube @TeamYouTube

6 days ago

@nathm0n We actually retired the dislike button from Shorts to give you clearer, more effective control over your recommendations. Our research showed it overlapped with tools like "Not interested" and "Don’t recommend this channel". Streamlining these options removes that ambiguity so

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Call me a conspiracy theorist but the plan is to make all physical media extremely unappealing so that people will have no choice but to buy everything digital. Games, movies, TV shows, all of that so they can charge you to “own” it again and again

GameSpot @GameSpot

4 days ago

Sony-Owned Crunchyroll Is Now Kneecapping Physical Anime Sales dlvr.it/TTYQwD

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The sad part is that there is a large group of delusional people out there that actually believe ID verification is needed to “protect the kids”

Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation

4 days ago

The US could soon make anonymous phone service a thing of the past. The FCC is considering a new rule that would require phone companies to verify identity before activating phone service. This could mean showing a government ID and providing personal details for a new phone

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A former PlayStation executive says players shouldn’t expect digital games to get cheaper once physical discs are gone. Speaking to Insider Gaming, former PlayStation Store boss Gordon Thornton said publishers decide game prices, and the industry would “prefer to maximize revenue however possible” instead of cutting prices. Thornton said publishers have never wanted digital games to be cheaper than physical copies because they want to keep prices the same across different stores and regions. He also said the extra money from digital sales helps pay for the rising cost of making modern games.

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SONY POSTS A GAME. THE REPLIES SAY - DISCS. open the playstation account right now. almost every post runs the same: - a promo goes up - a sale, a new game, the monthly lineup - the replies fill with one word: discs - half the posts get slapped with a community note - the disc announcement is still wearing one, two weeks later nobody's talking about the games. they're talking about the one thing sony refuses to address. according to moore's law is dead, citing an anonymous source, some studios pay sony thousands to lock a specific posting slot on these accounts. right now, if true, that money buys one thing: a megaphone pointed into a wall of disc anger. one dev quoted in the report said they'd be "very upset with sony" if this hit during their own launch. mlid's worst case: gta 6 promo tweets landing in this in november. the heat cooled a bit since week one, but it hasn't stopped. "no disc, no buy" is still under almost every post, and the petition just crossed 325,000 signatures. sony bet everyone would forget. the replies are still keeping score.

frostzy @lmkifiwin

2 weeks ago

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Comienzo a sospechar que no son solamente las cuentas oficiales de PlayStation spameando posts, ni tampoco sus influencers/prensa comprados. Creo que a los que posteamos en favor de los jugadores nos están metiendo bots. Analizando a la gente que insulta y está en contra de la lucha en los comentarios, un grupo despunta y todos siguen el mismo patrón: ➡️ Cuentas medianamente nuevas. ➡️ Follower base de 20-30. ➡️ PFP totalmente random, dibujos y figuras mitológlicas. ➡️ Biografía de 4 palabras, siempre inconclusa. ➡️ Escritura perfecta. ➡️ Ironía y desdén en sus comentarios, siempre en tono de mofa y queriendo darnos la sensación de que todo lo que hacemos es inútil. ➡️ Analizan tus posts pasados si les contestas. Al principio lo creía imposible pero después de ver todo lo que traman entre bambalinas y las cosas que llegan a hacer a través de terceros mientras mantienen su silencio, creo que nos están bombardeando con todo lo que tienen para desgastarnos a todos y no creo equivocarme ni un poquito. Una prueba más de lo muy desesperados que están y hasta donde llegan por que dejemos de hacer ruido y quejarnos. Seguid, insistid y no desfallezcáis. La victoria es para los que luchan. 💪🏼 SAVE THE DISC 📀 SAVE VIDEOGAMES

OJO CON ESTO 🚨 El caos en las redes sociales de PlayStation acaba de desatar un incendio directo con los desarrolladores de la industria. ​Según filtra Moore’s Law is Dead, los estudios de terceros están pagando miles de dólares a Sony por el simple privilegio de asegurar un tweet promocional en una franja horaria concreta de sus cuentas oficiales. ​El problema es que, con la actual ola de indignación y quejas masivas en los perfiles de PlayStation, cada anuncio de pago está siendo sepultado por el hate de la comunidad. Las fuentes anónimas dentro de los estudios son tajantes: están furiosos. Pagar una fortuna por marketing premium para que el anuncio de tu juego sea recibido con toxicidad hacia las políticas de Sony está rompiendo la confianza de los editores. ​Cobrar un "impuesto de visibilidad" a las desarrolladoras es un negocio redondo, pero si PlayStation no limpia su imagen pública pronto, a gigantes como Rockstar no les hará ninguna gracia ver cómo sus millones invertidos en el marketing de GTA 6 acaban enterrados entre insultos a la directiva nipona.

Sonys now after our Anime Physicals are you freaking kidding me. Boycott Chrunchyroll Boycott PlayStation Boycott Sony No Disc No Buy We gotta go into overdrive now people

GameSpot @GameSpot

4 days ago

Sony-Owned Crunchyroll Is Now Kneecapping Physical Anime Sales dlvr.it/TTYQwD

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PlayStation is reportedly making various studios furious as they pay them thousands of dollars to feature their games on social media, only for the posts to get flooded with angry comments and community notes over Sony’s plan to end physical game media by January 2028🚀 This may possibly derail promotional campaigns for other games, including GTA6 Don’t give up! Keep up the pressure! Our voices MUST be heard🫡💪🏼 NO DISC 💿 NO BUY Source: @mooreslawisdead

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Hacer ruido contra Sony SÍ FUNCIONA: ➡️ Sus posts comerciales se ven comprometidos y sus relaciones con desarrolladoras con ellos al recibir quejas por la mala promoción que están dando. ➡️ Bajan sus ventas al ahuyentar a posibles compradores y bajan sus subs, reservas y compras de usuarios por perder toda fiabilidad. ➡️ Se informa a más usuarios sobre la situación actual de la empresa y el devenir del gaming. ➡️ Sony tiene que terminar pagando costes de rectificación, devoluciones y reembolsos. ➡️ Puede provocar caídas en el precio de sus acciones por poner a sus inversores en desconfianza. ➡️ Afecta a su reputación, la cual tardarán muchos años en reconstruir después de esto. ➡️ Los lleva a investigaciones de consumo. Al amasar tantas quejas y demandas, se activan protocolos y tienen que pasar auditorías varias. ➡️ Sanciones gubernamentales que gracias al eco que se da a la situación se tiran para delante. ➡️ Y la más importante, se evita que la empresa se recupere y estabilice, dejándola en una situación propicia, social y económicamente en entredicho, para obligarla a rectificar. 📝🔥 Que nadie os diga que hacer ruido no sirve, porque es justamente el poder que tenemos como fans y usuarios frente a las empresas y el mayor miedo que estas tienen es que se extienda, al desestabilizar completamente su mercado. 🤫❌ Callar y simplemente irnos no hace el trabajo, si queremos cambiar las cosas hay que mantener la antorcha bien arriba, mantenernos unidos y pasen 15 días, 2 meses o un año entero, tener la entereza suficiente para seguir hasta ganar. En ello nos va el futuro del gaming, nuestro bienestar y derechos a la tinencia física y digital, miles de puestos de trabajo en el sector y el mercado entero de segunda mano, pero no solo eso. También nos va la respuesta de las demás empresas, que tendrán que aflojar la cuerda y seguir los pasos de Sony para garantizar sus ventas y adecuarse al mercado que queremos y luchamos por restituir. Esta lucha decide si somos NPCs en sus manos o consumidores despiertos a los que no pueden pasar por encima. Seguid luchando, cada día. 💪🏼 SAVE THE DISC 📀 SAVE VIDEOGAMES

Do not fall for this! They’re trying to gloss over the negative feedback with “look a sale!!”, when there is still no guarantee of ownership for digital content This is corporate greed! Stop pretending that this will just go away. Stop ignoring your customers #NoDiscNoMoney

PlayStation @PlayStation

6 days ago

PlayStation Store’s Summer Sale goes live tomorrow: play.st/4aUu4HL

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