If you own a PS5, depending on your firmware you may be able to exploit it, enjoy your favorite titles, all while giving Sony the middle finger.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/ps5-exploit-guide.613891/

No. Console gamers can't do that.

I finally broke down and bought a second hand PS5 last summer. My gaming rig was showing its age and I wanted to play Clair Obscur with decent graphics. I had been saving for a bit because I also wanted to play Spooder-Man 2 and Astro.

I made sure to buy the drive separately so that I could also play what limited Blu-rays I own.

Now I'm pissed they got my money for the games and drive add-on.

But then I might have to wait a year tomplay GTA 6 on PC........

/s

They just announced the release date of the last overpriced part of the ff7 trilogy so people already forgot about it and will buy.

Next project will likely be a new ff9 trilogy or something. Need to keep milking the gamers!

This is so easily gamed. Make social media accounts of people you don't like, be extremely toxic towards Sony on them.

Watch that person get their accounts nuked from orbit.

Do that until someone sues Sony.

I'm on board, as much as I'll miss God of war, I'm not paying them a dime more

Well, yes, but actually yes.

Same! I got to the third paragraph of the article before understanding they were not planning to harass their customers (or at least not in new ways...)

Isn’t that what they announced when deciding future titles won’t be on discs? I thought that was them plainly telling us, “we will be harassing the consumers of our products going forward”.

This is just the follow up where they’re saying “we won’t let you harass us back, because we are a big scary powerful corporation, and you are just a weak small individual.”

Me too. But also isn’t that what they have been doing these past months.

They say Microsoft and Xbox start to take a tumble and said to themselves "How badly can we fuck ourselves too?"

They won’t do it. Gta is coming out. They are too cucked.

I'm in! As long as I don't have to get rid of my psx, PSP, ps2, ps3, and ps4. I promise not to give them another dime, or use any of their shitty online services... Though to be honest I started boycotting them about the time the first Destiny expansion was launched.

Anything but doing the right thing because money

Moving away from Sony as much as possible. I may or may not use questionable websites to watch anime and movies. and I sold all my Sony stuff except a PS3 and Headphones, which will also be sold.

Sony is making it so easy for Xbox to take the crown again. I really hope Microsoft can follow through and don't fuck it up, we need competition, not for Xbox to take themselves out of business and turn Playstation into a monopoly.

Do they even make good products anymore?

I mean besides PlayStation which they are trying to ruin 😅

I've lived with hardcore capital-G Gamers.

Simply not buying the game is never an option. May as well be trying to get smokers to boycott tobacco companies until they make their product cheaper. Good luck on holding out.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/ps5-exploit-guide.613891/

I learned my lesson with the PS3, what took you so long?

The last game I bought was Ghost of Yotei. And as much as I really like most of Sony's exclusive(?) IPs, they saw my money for the last time on that purchase.

At this point, and with the ridiculous PC parts prices, I guess I'll just have to enjoy what I can on my steam deck, on a TV when possible with a wireless controller.

I'm not tossing my PS5 out the window any time soon, but this is it for Sony in my life. I think I have another 6 months on my yearly PS+ subscription, so, guess I'll probably play GTA6 a couple of years from now. Oh well, there's always books, going out and Lemmy.

So unjapanese.

IDK, some of those demands are absolutely reasonable. Nobody should be making threats or visiting their facilities.

Just stop buying products connected to Sony. I did when they did the helldivers account thing back in the day. That's why I never played helldivers, actually.

Nothing more offensive to a capitalist than trying to get your money back

I mean they are the customer facing entity of the company. Of course they are going to get angry customers calling in and voicing their grievances because of the actions of Sony.

And that's why they employ the cheapest labor to deal with it, it's just a front, they don't give a shit. What can the support staff do? Not much, I'd wager, and I'd wager that that shit rightfully would piss some customers off.

They're literally employed as an abuse filter.

AI chat assistant incoming in 3...2....1...

Japanese companies in particular are complete cocks when it comes to refunds. That's why Nintendo and Sony will just outright ban you forever if you do a chargeback. Nintendo will then give you one final chance, even if you were hacked. Not sure if Sony does. Similarly it's probably related to Playstation removing Cyberpunk for sale entirely when CD said to just refund it.

It's perfectly reasonable too

Requires you to not update. There is potential for firmware 13.6 right now if I remember once someone cracks it