PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)
2026-07-27 15:33 UTC
Replies (11)
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@BeUnique@lemmy.zip 2026-07-28 03:52
I don’t even own a PlayStation and haven’t since the PS3 but I truly hope Sony takes a financial hit on this one. Others such as Microsoft and Nintendo are paying very close attention to the results. If they manage to get away with this you know other consoles won’t be far behind them. Hell, they already tried around 2020 causing the start of the whole GameStop short fiasco. Now they’re trying to do it once again. That being said, Sony doesn’t give a flying fuck about a blackout. You want to really hit them where it hurts? Dump them. It’s the only way.
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@ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-27 15:45
Don’t think casual gamers will care about this. Most will probably just boot up their games on PlayStation after a long day of work or university.
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@Dookieman12@piefed.social 2026-07-28 03:35
Boycotts don’t have start dates. They happen as soon as someone says it happens and you’re either in, or you’re out. Boycotts don’t have end dates. They happen until demands are met. If that means you never buy/do that thing again, so be it. If you’re not prepared to commit all the way, don’t participate. Over time, the definition of “boycott” has been watered down to make people forget what makes a boycott effective. People have forgotten that the Montgomery Alabama bus boycotts lasted for literal years and saw people donating time and money to fixing up old cars, horse-drawn carriages, and carpooling to make them effective. If you want real change, you have to be prepared to take real action. This one week boycott is pussy shit and won’t solve anything. If you’re gonna organize, do it for something that will work. The boycott begins today. Right now. No more PS+ logins or payment. No more buying new games or consoles. No more anything that puts money in Sony’s pocket (buying used is fine, that money only goes to the reseller) and it lasts until Sony reverses its decision to stop printing physical games. If we want to continue boycotting until they revise their digital licensing, we can demand that once we’ve made progress on the physical media. That’s what everyone cares about, so let’s keep the demands short and simple with that as the only one.
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@GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 2026-07-28 04:37
It’ll be small indeed based on the number of people who buy physical games.
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@Dookieman12@piefed.social 2026-07-28 03:17
A boycott with a deadline isn’t a boycott; it’s barely a demonstration. A boycott is until demands are met, no sooner. This is controlled opposition. If you want your demands met, don’t waste your time organizing for anything less than a real (full, indefinite) boycott.
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@Telodzrum@lemmy.world 2026-07-27 18:51
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@Newsteinleo@infosec.pub 2026-07-28 02:05
I see these things and laugh every time. One week or even one moth is meaningless, you have to commit. Boycott until you see the change you want. I’ve been boycotting EA for over a decade now, still haven’t see any change but I feel better knowing I am not giving them money.
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@tomkatt@lemmy.world 2026-07-27 16:13
I gotta ask, why do people even care about this so much? The games in most cases haven’t been fully contained on the discs since the PS2 era. With patches, updates, and required downloads to play, the disc itself is functionally useless in most cases. Why is this such a big deal? Why is this the hill to die on and boycott over who knows how many other horrible things and business practices around?
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@Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2026-07-28 05:21
I’m doing a #psblackout since I was born but it didn’t change anything
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@ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2026-07-28 06:51
I fear that Sony will cobble together some release to those days…
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@Blackmist@feddit.uk 2026-07-29 11:03
Push for laws that force digital stores to provide full ownership of digital rights. The ability to pass purchased licenses from one account to another would be a real game changer. They’re trying to kill ownership completely, and this would blow it wide open. And that could just be step one. We need assurances about what happens when a store closes (can we download everything and archive it and play offline? will it be moved to another provider?) We need the ability to move purchases between stores. Hell, even between platforms. We need to make sure accounts that have paid for goods cannot be completely revoked under any circumstances. Locked out of online play or prevented from making further purchases, sure, but never just blocked. Law makers have sat idly by for too long as our rights were taken from us. It’s high time to take them back.