Ahh.

PS store.

Oh, given my hearing loss - too many childhood ear infections - I've given up on anything other than mp3's. If the scratchy vinyl I have is fine, (I still have the copy of The Beatles' Yellow Submarine given to me the year it came out.. when I was 5. Sounds like a cat danced on it.. claws out.. but I still listen to it) a bit of line noise hardly makes a difference.

I notice you didn't answer my question about where the purchase was made.

Sueing Lik-Sang out of existence, undercutting the PS3 and it's BD drive to force HD-DVD out, consuming every major western Anime localizer, including Rightstuf and shutting down their physical retail operations. I know there's others I'm forgetting at the moment.

This. It should shift to the payment email at that point.

It's a joke of Skyrim players. So many editions have been released on so many platforms. Most people who've been playing it tend to accumulate extra copies. On steam I think I have the base, gold, remaster, and special edition. I have a switch copy, and an Xbox copy or two. I'd be pissed as hell if fuckin Sony took any one of them.

Where did I say that I had more than just the one?

the last time I touched sony was the PS2. Which was a console so good and powerful it was still alive and viable up until the PS4 release.

Sony has a ripe and bountiful history of absolutely shit behavior with regards to Playstation and its customers since the PS2, almost entirely because of the change to PSN accounts and all the bullshit that follows that, that I can not even fathom how people can continue to give it money in this day and age.

Wow…. Maybe you could put this in Unpopular Opinion and absolutely cash in, bud! Because victim blaming is SO HOT there lately!

I played ESO solo. Didn’t even chat.

You 100% don't deserve it, but that's sorta the thing, you shouldn't have to keep up with tech blogs to know about this. Sony installing rootkits on people's machines without permission is flagrantly illegal, and people should have gone to fucking prison. It should have either been the noose around Sony's neck or the catalyst for major change. It was neither, really, although as far as I'm aware, they didn't do anything that stupid/illegal again.

So basically just an extended free weekend?

That rootkit wrecked a very expensive (at the time) external CD-RW I used to have. That's when my personal boycott began.

Pirate the game fam

Steam still sells non-game software.

MindTex2 is $19.99

https://store.steampowered.com/app/441770/MindTex_2/

My decade+ long boycott of Sony's garbage is looking more prescient every day.

Take it to small claims court. Ask for the money to replace the game + the filing fee from Sony America. Cite all documentation confirming your attempt at relief and if you have it, receipt of the game - possibly available in the form of credit card receipt, but also proof that you've played the game on the system.

They won't even contest it most likely. Send the bill to their finance department.

If my rage against Sony had any room to go higher, this would do it.

"Classic" and "PayDay 3" in the same sentence really shows an out of touch understanding of reality.

All you had to do was disable auto play and you could rip the CDs at full quality. Doing digital -> analog -> digital is kinda like resaving a jpeg as another jpeg; you will lose quality even if your equipment is great because the digital <-> analog conversion is lossy, due to one being discrete in both time and amplitude while the other is continuous in time and amplitude. Plus there's line noise.

Oh good, my random but roughly annual reminder that payday 3 exists. Have they fixed it yet, or is it just on the way to being $1,500 of DLC?

meh, payday 2 is still better then whatever that means was/is. I'll pass, even if temp free

To play, not to keep like I assumed from the title.

Not completely free to add to your library as steam has sometimes done, but a free weekend to play.