Mandated insurance that isn't a crown corporation beholden to ratepayers is a perfect example. If you have mandated insurance for something, and that private insurance has a shareholder requirement to see growth every quarter, and the same amount of things are being insured, only one thing can happen:

Rates go up with denials

Payouts go down

Eventually you're paying for insurance you know is worthless but it's mandated by law.

there's so many assholes getting paid for nothing nowadays I don't feel like lifting a damn finger any more and I've been a hard worker all my life, I'm sure I'm not alone. A general strike can't come fast enough these fuckers need a punch in the gut

I agree with you, but then isn't it strange that AI does a whole lot of something instead of nothing? Like, the high amount of effort they put into making AI a big thing runs counter to the laziness of getting paid to do nothing.

Though I guess they ARE getting paid doing nothing, with how many data centers are getting cancelled.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/nearly-half-of-us-data-centers-planned-for-2026-canceled-or-delayed-and-it-s-expected-to-get-worse/ar-AA20sl2J

So was Enron? I'm not sure why you chose 1993, companies have been shitty across all of time and space.

PS4 is my last PlayStation. Can't even recall the last time I powered it up on purpose.

Having the possibility to setup a server allowed me to setup one for my sons and I. I’d rather have that then them going online…

So are bicycles and kitchen knives. Ffs

It's awesome to meet another in the wild! I too have been boycotting Sony since they added malware to their products.

Capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction. Enshittification is the inevitable result of shareholders demanding endless growth at all costs.

Imagine if Bungie never "vaulted" (read: deleted) any part of Destiny 2 and we were still able to play the original campaign it shipped with? More people would still be playing Destiny 2 and you'd get plenty more new players without them having to use a guide or YouTube lore videos to get caught up on the story.

Instead of mArathon they'd probably be making a Destiny 3

Oh yeah don't get me started on Bungie. The are a shell of their former selves. When they split from Activison and it all came out that the mircotransactions was all Bungie's idea that was my first WTF moment with these guys. They let us believe it was the Corp overlords ruining our game but they did it themselves. Then they did everything they could do to make themselves look profitable for Sony's acquisition. Just horrible decision after horrible decision.

Yeah Bungie management has been atrocious since at least the first Halo. Possibly from their beginning. It's honestly a miracle they've managed to release so many decently sized hits despite being mismanaged to hell and back for each and every single one.

I agree I don't blame Sony at all. Also I hate myself for it but for me no FPS I've played comes close to the fluid gunplay in Destiny and Destiny 2. That is where Bungie always shined for me above everyone else. The rebooted Doom games are a close 2nd. and there are a few indie titles like Turbo Overkill that get close as well. Everything else just doesn't match up when I get that FPS itch.

The carts, discs, and hardware will unfortunately eventually stop working, but fortunately most of them can also be emulated on PC really well, sometimes better looking than on original hardware.

They'll get to read the plot synopsis on wikipedia

They have but others have not. GTA will come to PC. GoW Faye likely wont.

I'd rather wait and emulate the next spiderman and Wolverine game tbh.

Actually, the 2026 strategy and business environment report from Sony simply removed the line "Will continue its efforts to deploy its first-party titles to multiple platforms such as PC" from their priorities list, but did not outright state that they won't port games to PC anymore, as many journalists misinterpreted, the report simply states that it isn't a priority anymore due to mitigated revenue. The main concern within the report seems to be that near simultaneous releases on PC are effectively cannibalizing PS5 hardware sales, so you might still expect PC releases but further down the line compared to the current 1-2 years window, maybe previous generation games released on PC, not current generation.

For now, yes. But these companies change their strategies all the fucking time. As soon as they see their "only on Playstation" strategy is not giving them the expected return, I am sure they're gonna backflip, again.

Microsoft and Sony (and pretty much any other big corporation in the game business) are not reliable in the slightest - the only difference between them right now is the amount of power they have.

I find it both amusing and shocking that we still have 'fanboys' up to this day, when these companies themselves can't even maintain a solid long term strategy. All they care about is making maximum profit at the cost of literally everything else, so their 'promises' hold no weight at all.