Have you noticed how every person defending PlayStation/advocating for discless gaming is always doing it in such an unsympathetic, smug, self absorbed, shit-eating way? Like, yes, you ARE the bad guy in this situation. At least you're acting like it.
THIS PROVES OUR VOICES ARE BEING HEARD.
The mass cancellations have @Sony shaking in their boots and they are TRYING to buy back your loyalty.
The more we push back, the more Sony will get more desperate!
DO NOT GIVE UP.
PlayStation's "nonchalant, holier than thou" sense of communication really needs to end
They've spent all the goodwill they had this generation and now there's like none left
Actively avoiding your community & pretending like nothing happened is only going to make things worse
@PlayStation You seriously think we’re just going to forget what you’ve done? Fuck you and your brand. You are a genuine disappointment of a company and I hope both the @PlayStation company and Hideaki Nishino dies penniless and alone.
Saw a bit of controversy over Picolo’s art of Kurt and I will say. Kurt being depicted as a lighter blue isn’t new. Glynnis Oliver often colored him light blue. That being said I still think the art sucks. Why would a German-Roma man be dressed like a goth white frat boy?
The real fight is for proper digital ownership. Yes I can agree that needs to happen.
But if there's anything I've learned this past week, its most of that fight will be against other gamers.
A lot of digital only buyers actually like the idea of having 0 ownership/control.
SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY is reportedly tracking for a monster $228 million domestic opening.
Because of course it is.
Peter Parker is still Peter Parker. You can complain about superhero fatigue all you want, but Spider-Man is basically box-office cocaine. People see the mask, the logo, the web-swinging, and suddenly everyone’s wallet opens like it’s 2002 again.
But here’s where it gets funny.
Sony tried posting about the movie, and instead of everyone losing their minds over SPIDER-MAN, the top comments were people calling them out for killing PlayStation disc production in 2028.
Good.
Hijack the damn marketing.
Because Sony does not want its biggest movie campaign of the year turning into a public funeral for physical media.
Will yelling about PlayStation under a SPIDER-MAN post actually change anything?
Probably not. Sony Pictures and PlayStation are different divisions. The Spider-Man train is not getting derailed by angry gamers in a comment section.
But that is not the point.
The point is making the complaint impossible to compartmentalize. Sony wants clean hype. They want trailer views, heart emojis, fan edits and people screaming about opening weekend.
Instead, they’re getting reminded that customers are tired of paying full price for digital “ownership” that can disappear the second a license expires or a server gets shut off.
That’s the pressure point.
Make the brand uncomfortable.
Because if people only complain in gaming circles, Sony can ignore it. If they turn every major Sony marketing push into a physical media argument, suddenly the suits have to hear it.
Will it work?
Who knows.
But if buying isn’t owning, then hijacking the comment section isn’t bullying.
It’s customer feedback with better aim.
Some forget that Mr. Terrific was practically unanimously loved in Superman. I saw people who didn’t even like the movie that much talk about how cool he was. If there’s ANY lesser known character that deserves a project this early on, it’s him (should’ve been the first honestly)
Sony limiting disc drive sales to one per customer due to high demand, getting roasted by everyone from European politicians to regular customers, being hounded by news articles calling them out and by devs flexing their current physical releases. Suffer in your stupidity.