I'm not watching the video, but I'm reasonably confident devastating is a bit of an overreaction. It's the end of an era sure and probably a vast scaling back of their business, but devastating? Nah.

Jesus wept

When Sony bans your account, you lose all your digital games.

Easing theft from the consumer, murdering the secondhand market and specialised retailers, breaking the trust of partners. Oh yeah, all minor, petty inconveniences. /s

Honestly, yes. I don't know anyone else who cares about this. In my circle, I am entirely alone in my frustration. Which bodes poorly for any protests we might mount.

...for lo, there were no physical tables left to scatter

I de-vistaed, skipped 8 and went straight to 10.

Just buy a PC and move on?

That guy seems pretty flakey anyway, not like his old man, that guy was all about dropping plagues on people and making them murder their children. Jesus was all "wah wah stop being mean". There is no way the Sony execs care what a guy like that says or does.

Unfortunately, I'm in the same boat as you. Somehow nobody cares when companies steal from them, but I pick up a mantle ornament and there's suddenly a problem...

Assuming, for a second, I don't have a PC, I shouldn't care that basic consumer rights are being eroded from under us? If I have a PC, I should automatically not care about physical media being killed off, including music, film and TV? Piss-poor take, my friend. Look beyond the tip of your nose.

It's tripled my desire and rate of piracy, so there's that. You can only control yourself, after all. But making piracy easier for others as a backhanded dig at Sony would make your point equally well. That's where I'm at. Seed and guide your people's selfishness.

I buy most of my games on GOG, I don't get disks yet those games are mine, if GOG disappeared tomorrow I would still own them and could still play them (given I keep backups of installers).

I never had a console so I don't know how it works, but if Sony ever decided that to play your disks you need an online connection they control, having disks won't help you at all.

We need to fight the right to ownership, that doesn't depend on having disks.

You can have discs and force Sony to upgrade to GOG level of customer service.

Sony almost never gives out refunds while Steam gives out refunds within 2 hours of gameplay.

The PlayStation store is region-locked you can’t ever change that and Sony deletes your account after 36 months of inactivity.

Publishers can also delete your PlayStation games from your library.

You don't have to buy their products?

Any other canned responses you want to spew? Any other non-solutions your corpo buddies fed you you'd like to regurgitate? Any other assumptions you want to throw down based on nothing?

Pretty much what I'm doing too. You can't save those who are too stupid to realise their heads are being shoved under the water, so help those who have the bare minimum of neurons bouncing around to reach out for help.

Corpo buddies? I'm not the one whining about not being able to have a PlayStation, get a grip champ. Consoles have been an over priced shit show for like 2 decades now.

I don't recall saying anything about wanting a PlayStation. Specifically several different things, in fact. You sure you know how to read?

What a little snowflake bitch, amirite

It's almost like the whole thread is specifically about Sony's PlayStation and their shit policies ..

And yet you somehow turned it into me wanting a PlayStation and talking down to me despite the conversation being about shitty policies.

Why else would you be "devastated" by specifically just Sony's Playstation platform getting rid of fixed media if you didn't own or want to own a PlayStation? If neither of those things apply to you then just sit back and watch them policy themselves into oblivion. My point is (as per my original post) it's not actually devastating, it's just a shit thing, particularly for them and anyone who likes playstations. You seem to see this as the fall of society as a whole because now everything is online. I just see it as just another shit corporation making another shit decision that will ultimately result in less people buying their shit except for idiots who insist their brand represents them for some reason. If you are so "devastated" then get a lawyer and start a class action or lobby your government to do something about it. Or continue screaming into the void, you do you champ.

Time and again companies have made horrendously bad decisions for the consumer and others have soon followed suit, especially in the gaming market. If you can't open your eyes wide enough to understand why a player - and this isn't just PlayStation, it's Sony, a company with fingers in many pies - in an oligopoly putting so much effort into eroding basic ownership principles while everyone else just 'sits back and watches' is bad for the market as a whole, I have nothing more to say to you, you're simply too dim to grasp basic concepts.

Good one champ

GTA6 will come out on PC