Leave it to Sony to come up with new and innovative ways to harass customers.

"Due to the decisions we made, we now fear our own customers". You know, companies that make good products don't usually fear their customers.

I was literally ready to buy a PS5 for GTA6, money set aside and all. PC gamer through and through but GTA has always been my game. Sony completely ruined that, and I have no interest in it. Unfortunately others are buying them at inflated costs and wiping my personal refusal out, but still. One less playstation sold, Sony.

"Customer Harrasment Policy"

One of the best post titles I have read in a long time.

No way this doesn’t “Streisand Effect” the fuck out of them, nope a totally smart play by Sony

What a way to piss away all that image building over two decades at least. They put so much effort in being at all the right events, the cool stuff.

Nintendo and Microsoft never were that good in this. Who would've thought they'd tear it all down themselves.

What a time to be alive.

unreasonable demands for apologies

You're gonna have to explain that one. How is demanding an apology unreasonable? I think you just dug yourself deeper into the wrong side of this.

That's wild. So basically a user asking for compensation is treated as the same threat level as that user walking into their offices armed.
That "considered reasonable according to social norms" is REALLY open ended, too. That sounds a lot like the social norm they've been trying to push for "you won't own anything and you'll like it".

It's time to stop being a Sony customer then. I mean, I've not bought a single PlayStation in my entire life so, that's a start.

They continue to make things worse. As of now I'm not touching anything with the name Sony on it. May be a permanent decision.

This is such a Japanese business thing to do. I'm not even surprised. I understand the need to protect your employees, especially when Japan has a history of whackos damaging businesses that sometimes result in deaths, but this is going a bit far IMO. I think they could comply with Japan's new law about worker protection without needing to go this route.

In Japan, laws have pretty much always been dictated by big businesses, just look at their defamation laws. Even if what you say is true, if it harms the company in any way, you will still be arrested and are basically guaranteed to lose a case in Japan for that.

I am interested to see if they try to implement this outside Japan. I mean, Japanese businesses almost always try to apply Japanese law outside Japan (most famously, Nintendo), but still interesting to see if it happens.

I'm so glad I jumped from the PlayStation wagon at the end of the PS4 cycle!

‘Member when Neil Druckmann and Sean Murray got personal death threats from Sony’s customers and Sony didn’t do shit. Hell Shuhei Yoshida even threw Murray under the bus for the PR hype disaster of No Man’s Sky during post release interviews instead of standing up for him even though Sony helped Hello Games in hyping the game.

Only now when Sony execs get threatened they do something.

Sony has never cared about its customers. I don't know why people bought Sony after they ripped OtherOS out of the Ps3. Millions of people were using that and they destroyed it over something stupid. I've been boycotting Sony for over a decade and never understood why people bought the Ps4 and Ps5. Suddenly they all find out again. Well... yeah. This doesn't surprise me at all.

Sony had better prepare themselves to have pretty quiet chats during their State of Plays, if the one from this morning was any indication. Walls of text that would make China blush wanting Destiny continued and making the displeasure of physical disc production cancelation known would probably fit under this new policy.

Time to hoist the colors.

I want to see Sony advertise a game where the female lead is blatantly doing lots of "finger pinch" emote in South Korea. Put the game on every single screen in Seoul. The results would be a thing of beauty.

“I have now come to claim that satisfaction.”