Bobby Harevan

sozialistischen Nationalisten von Indonesien

[Bobby Harevan @Bobby_harevan]

@PlayStation

[Rino🚀 @RinoTheBouncer]

It’s been 61 days since Sony announced their plan to end physical media🚀

To this day, outrage has expanded worldwide and went way beyond social media gaming spheres, but extended to mainstream media and gaming conventions.

✅Sales figures have shown high demand for physical games around the world

✅Resident Evil Requiem and Assassin’s Creed Shadows sold over 40-50% physical in territories like France, Japan, UK and Australia

✅64% of world countries have no dedicated PlayStation Store, meaning an all-digital future leaves them with no official access to games

✅PlayStation Store has no option to change region, meaning if you move to another country, you need to make a new account in the new region in order to use a local credit card, provided they even have a dedicated store to begin with

✅We have seen time and time again that digital games, movies, shows, music and books can be removed without compensation from digital store fronts, due to licensing agreements and various other reasons

✅Losing access to your account means losing all your games, and many have reported inefficient support teams when it comes to restoring lost access

✅Network outages have stood in the way of people accessing their digital games

✅Code-in-a-box games are region locked

✅Taking away physical games ends second hand market and trading

✅Digital-only future eliminates competition and leads to higher pricing, and it’s already evident with dynamic and regional pricing being introduced

✅Physical sales are high even if the percentage goes as low as 10% because that’s still millions of people

✅Publishers calculate microtransactions, DLC, free-to-play and digital only games as “digital sales” which inflates their the numbers of digital sales, and engineers a fake narrative that physical games are too niche to matter

✅PlayStation 6 and Project Helix are estimated to cost around $1000, which leaves little incentive to buy games priced from $70-100 and more, on an expensive console and PS5 barely showed any innovation in games compared to PS4 with hardly any games pushing the system’s power to its maximum or showing any true leap, and losing physical media leaves little to no incentive to buy a console when PC, while digital, offers way more options, higher specs, DRM-free, modding and generally way more games old and new

✅Exclusives are taking 5-7 years or more to come out, meaning buying consoles for the sake of exclusives is becoming pointless since a whole generation could pass with only 1 game from a first party studio

Physical media MUST stay, the same way books still come to print, music (including video games soundtracks especially for Sony games) continues to be released on vinyl, CD and cassette and films and shows keep coming on Blu-Ray.

There are many ways to make production or physical games more efficient, but ending them is not the way.

We MUST speak up, and protest within our legal rights as customers to defend physical games, because ending physical media harms digital gaming fans, not just physical ones.

NO DISC 💿 NO BUY

[Bobby Harevan @Bobby_harevan]

@PlayStation Moving x box series

[Does it play? @DoesItPlay1]

#PSBlackout Stage 1 completed!

We would like to thank everyone who helped spread the idea and took part.

Now the fight for a better gaming world continues. And we need to stand united!

PlayStation's plans set a dangerous precedent. If they go all-digital, others will follow. This will affect us all, regardless of whether you earn a living with games or just play them. Regardless of where you play or how you purchase your games.

You will lose the only form of ownership on console. The only legal form of preservation. Trade conventions/fairs will eventually die. Retailers will lose sales and close. Developers lose additional revenue and discoverability. Without physical and second hand price competition dwindles. Price hikes and fewer sales will be the new norm, pricing some people out of the hobby entirely.

And what you will pay exorbitant sums for, is not even yours to keep. Without customer protection laws everything you buy can be stripped from you at a whim. As you can witness today when over 500 Studio Canal movies get erased from people's libraries without any repercussions. What do you think happens to Wolverine when Sony and Marvel eventually part ways?

That is why we need to fight two battles at once!

We need to protect physical games as an option. For preservation, for the experience, for a healthy market, and to keep our hands on what we bought.

We need to push for better customer rights in the digital space. Actual ownership & end-of-life plans, so games don't just disappear, when a publisher ends support.

Support us! Support initiatives like Stop Killing Games! Speak to your local customer protection agencies and local politicians tasked with taking care of these topics!

Continue to make your voices heard online. The minimum requirement for the blackout has been reached. But many continue to do it. Others did their part and return to play for now. Regardless of which you are, there will be more chances in the future to take action again. Thank you all once more for standing up together. Let's continue to raise awareness and get more people on board!

[Rino🚀 @RinoTheBouncer]

NO DISC 💿 NO BUY is not a movement that aims to end digital games, it is a reaction to Sony’s plan to end physical media in favor of a digital-only future🚀

What does a digital-only future mean?

❌No ownership
❌Sony’s terrible refund policy
❌Games tied to one account
❌Bad customer support for account issues
❌Games may rely on network & internet
❌No trading or second hand
❌No competition > higher prices
❌No preservation for games
❌64% of countries losing access to games since they have no dedicated PlayStation Store

We aren’t just asking for something nostalgic, but rather keeping balance in the gaming world and giving players options, because ending physical games negatively impact digital gamers too.

Don’t give up💪🏼

[TGIT @ChommyChewsday]

@PlayStation I'm looking for a system that's worth having. Ain't gonna be yours, scumbag pieces of shit #NoDiscNoBuy #PSBlackout

[Tadeu Andrade @andradecrc]

@PlayStation

[BenjaminOU @Benjami36711648]

@PlayStation Play has limits 💿💿💿

[J & L Game 🕹️ @jnlgame]

@PlayStation You still don't get it....

[Does it play? @DoesItPlay1]

Parts of the world are in day 4 of the #PSBlackout now!

We are really happy how far this has spread. Mainstream media still has an eye on it, and players are discussing it across all platforms. Even in places nobody officially announced it at. No playing, no buying! Keep it up!

[Bobby Harevan @Bobby_harevan]

@PlayStation Capcom mantap 👍

[Bobby Harevan @Bobby_harevan]

@PlayStationAsia

[Deus ❅ @MrJmoneyDeus]

@PlayStation Looking for great discs after 2028

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@PlayStationAsia

[Bobby Harevan @Bobby_harevan]

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memalukan!!! #KluivertOut #TimnasDay

[Bobby Harevan @Bobby_harevan]

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Izinka #SAYAKETAWAAAAAAAAAA

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