There's a https://t.co/MRELM4H1PV petition right now called "Don't Kill the Disc" for Sony PlayStation to revert their changes. If you want to sign it I'll leave the link below.
Gamers need to realize the power of their voices and wallets🚀
Don’t let them take away physical media, because next, even digital media will become a subscription only service, and they’ll sell you a $1000 PS6 with no disc drives and a worse line-up than PS5.
Speak up!💪🏼🕹️
I don't like sounding like a doomsdayer, but it is evident that we are moving toward a future where we don't truly own anything. What keeps a digital-only company from removing something that we purchased?
I think the nature of all things is to evolve, for better and for worse. But consumers have to remember that we hold the power, and if we don't agree with something, we need to speak the only language that companies understand. If we all vote, protest, and speak with our wallets, they WILL eventually listen.
If we don't own, then we won't spend.
Disclaimer: I am no expert. In fact, I am just some random person on the internet with an opinion. Form your own, and do what feels right to you.
Overwatch and Diablo 4 did a collab, and they put Mercy in Diablo 4.
How in the hell does the woman on the left turn into this shriveled-up elderly prune of a person in the image to the right?
They even made the jawline more masculine.
Yeah. The Woke industrial complex isn't defeated. It's still here, uglifying everything to the point of absurdity.
On the same day Sony told a billion gamers to embrace digital forever, it quietly showed them the catch.
Two announcements, one blog, an hour apart.
First: from January 2028, no new PlayStation game will ship on a disc, digital only.
Second, buried below: Sony is closing the online stores for the PlayStation 3 and Vita, so you will no longer be able to buy games there at all.
Read together, they are not two stories. They are the whole argument about what you actually own.
A disc is the last thing in your home a Silicon Valley company cannot reach. A PlayStation game from 1994 still works today, and the law lets you resell it, lend it, keep it forever.
That is ownership. It is protected by something called the first-sale doctrine, and it applies to physical objects. It does not apply to digital purchases. That is not Sony being cruel. That is the quiet legal truth underneath the whole shift.
Sony's own spokesperson said it plainly today. With all digital content, you are not buying the game. You are buying a personal license for non-commercial use. Not the thing. Permission to use the thing, which depends on the company's servers and goodwill. They once pulled a game called Concord two weeks after launch. Buyers got refunds, but the game itself simply vanished.
This was never really about discs versus downloads. It is about moving the largest entertainment medium on Earth from a world where you own an object the law protects, to one where you hold access the law treats as rented.
Convenient, cheaper, and easier for almost everyone. Also revocable in a way a disc never was.
The click of a disc into a console was ownership. The download is permission. Sony just showed you, in a single morning, how differently the two age.
Do you agree with what Sony did??
I want to preface by saying she is beautiful, but as far as I can tell, virtually no one avoided this movie because they thought she was ugly. With that said,
When a “modern audience” movie or game flops after explicitly telling the core (predominant) audience it’s “not for them,” the response is always the same: blame that audience. Call them misogynists. Say they just hate women. Imply the only reason they rejected it is because they think the lead is ugly and they’re all deplorable incels.
They’re obviously just incels who hate women, and that’s the only reason this and so many other franchises are failing so miserably 🤦♂️
Over and over and over again
It almost feels like these projects are made to manufacture excuses to attack, abuse, and alienate men. The whole thing feels designed to keep a permanent victim mindset alive: “See? They hate us! They hate women! That’s why we get to keep doing this to them.”
In the meantime, they keep capturing every medium of escapism these guys have. Spit in their face with terrible writing, emasculate every male character and hero they grew up with, shove ideology and politics down their throats—all while calling them misogynists, racists, and scared of strong women
Oh, you’re mad we race-swapped your favorite characters? Racist
Oh, you’re mad we replaced the male leads in traditionally male franchises? Sexist. You hate women
Oh, you’re mad we deliberately avoid putting attractive women in our media? Virgin incel loser
It is exhausting. These people are some of the most manipulative, hypocritical, and abusive ideologues I’ve ever seen—and I’ve dealt with narcissism and psychological abuse most of my life. So many of these people are abusers. I know, I survived it.
Guys, we’re surrounded by egomaniacal fucking psychopaths
This has to stop
Like holy shit, can we stop abusing the shit out of men? Can we stop misconstruing and intentionally villainizing them? So many of these people are actually fucking monsters who fooled the world into thinking it’s the men who are the monsters while behind the curtains they keep whipping and beating men into doing what they want
Forgive the rant but holy shit it’s like fucking clockwork with these people
> be sony
> 2021: shuts down its own movie store
> 2022: deletes 300+ movies people paid for
> 2023: tries to delete all discovery shows
> backs off after backlash
> extension just ran out
> 2026: deletes 551 more movies anyway
> no refunds given
> 2026: destruction allstars servers go dark forever
> fine print says buy does not mean own
> license can be pulled anytime
> sued in california for hiding this
> 2028: physical discs discontinued for good
You never owned any of it. You were renting until they got bored.
Recap of of Sony has been doing🚀
✅Attachable disc drive
✅Default digital PS5 Pro & slim
✅Console price increase
✅Testing dynamic pricing
✅Ending physical media
✅Shutting down PS3/Vita store (same day)
✅Reports claiming PS6 having no disc drive, and likely costing $1000, and Sony stating refusal to sell consoles at a significant loss makes the report seem quite likely true
Therefore they want to:
✅Sell games that you can never own
✅Ending second-hand market
✅Raising pricing dynamically on a whim
✅Leaving no options or competition
✅Ending game preservation
✅Censor games post launch
✅You won’t access OG uncensored version
✅Eventually goad you into a glorified rental service or subscription-only model
They do not respect gaming as an art-form or a hobby, nor as a craft driven by passion.
The only language they speak is money, so make sure to speak to them in the language the comprehend, and be clear and loud💪🏼
So, we’re quadrupling down on these statements now?
Telling Senate lawmakers that community servers are illegal and part of a black market is certainly a choice.
But sure, as we all know, it was likely just a misunderstanding.
In 2021, Hideo Kojima predicted that a future built entirely around digital media could leave people without access to the content they thought they owned if companies or external events changed how that content was distributed.
“Eventually, even digital data will no longer be owned by individuals on their own initiative. Whenever there is a major change or accident in the world, in a country, in a government, in an idea, or in a trend, access to it may suddenly be cut off.”
“We will not be able to freely access the movies, books, and music that we have loved. I would be a have-not. That’s what I’m afraid of. This is not greed.”
Remember when we were told digital distribution would make games cheaper?
Instead, games are more expensive than ever, you don't actually own them, they can be delisted whenever publishers feel like it, and "physical copies" are turning into boxes with a download code inside.
What a deal.
@MightyKeef Because for Every Member of EU Parlament their are 30+ lobbyists with enough bribe money to convince enough people to be against Stop Killing Games. They only change things if it benefits them. Apple surely had enough bribe Money, but EU Members didn't like the extra charge Cabel
No es solo que Playstation acabe de matar el formato físico sino que hace poco introdujeron los "precios dinámicos" en digital para que a cada jugador le salga un precio diferente cuando hay rebajas.
Ahora sin juegos físicos lo van a controlar todo. Ahora todo tiene sentido.
"Parents should be able to control their kid's online experiences!"
THEY ALREADY CAN!! THEY ALREADY FREAKING CAN!! THEY CAN DO THIS RIGHT THE FRICK NOW!!
WE DON'T NEED TO VIOLATE OUR 1ST AND 4TH TO ACHIEVE CHILD SAFETY!! PARENTS JUST NEED TO DO THEIR JOBBBBBB!!!!!