Riley Quessy

[GermanStrands @GermanStrands]

Some confirmed games for Gamescom Opening Night Live:

-The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past First Look
-Tides of Annihilation Story Trailer
-Final Fantasy 7: Revelation New Look
-Silent Hill: Townfall New Trailer
-Metro 2039 New Trailer
-ANANTA Fresh Look
-ONTOS
-EXODUS New Look
-Valor Mortis New Trailer
-Gears of War E-Day New Campaign Look

Can���t wait for the show! Lowkey hoping they’ll surprise us with a Phantom Blade Zero demo.

[Tech Ultimatum @TechieUltimatum]

LET’S NOT PLAY ON PLAYSTATION FOR ONE WEEK. 🎮

Starting tomorrow, August 23 through August 30, let’s support the #PSBlackout campaign.

So for one week:
❌ Don’t play on PlayStation
❌ Don’t buy games
❌ Don’t make in-game purchases
❌ Skip PS Store purchases
❌ Skip logins & purchases
❌ Cancel/avoid subscriptions if you can
📀 Support physical games & preservation

The goal isn’t to hurt developers. It’s to send Sony a clear message:

Gamers still want the choice to own their games.

If you support physical media, join the #PSBlackout from August 23–30.

Would you participate? 👇

Sony is moving new PlayStation releases toward digital-only or code-in-box formats after January 2028.

This isn’t just about discs. It’s about ownership, preservation and access.

If a digital store shuts down one day, what happens to the games you paid for?

Some gamers are even considering Switch 2 or PC as alternatives for long-term ownership.

No PlayStation. No Sony game purchases. No in-game spending. August 23–30.

Would you join the #PSBlackout? 🔥

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

Sony emailing everyone about PlayStation terms of use during a backlash over the end of discs and a lack of digital ownership is certainly a choice

[Luke Stephens @LukeStephensTV]

Ok guys, I'm back from Europe! What's happening in gamin--...

[Riley Quessy @RileyQuessy]

@playb0y4L I swear to god people get more stupid by the day. Does know one read the full post and realize it's satire?

[Riley Quessy @RileyQuessy]

@PrimeCurrents Classic case of forming an opinion on an unfinished product. These people are getting old

[Riley Quessy @RileyQuessy]

@stalker_thegame I went to reinstall it last night, only to see it was taken off Game Pass

[Riley Quessy @RileyQuessy]

@XBOX XBOX has the opportunity to make the easiest business decision for FY27. Invest in physical media with Project Helix.

[GameSpot @GameSpot]

The #PSBlackout boycott, organized by the game preservation group DoesItPlay? has gathered momentum as more than 345,000 people have signed a petition urging Sony to keep releasing physical PlayStation games 📀

[Riley Quessy @RileyQuessy]

@brotherharryy @Dexerto Frank X Shaw, the lead for the communications for Microsoft. The misinformation being spread about this is crazy.

[Riley Quessy @RileyQuessy]

@asha_shar I'd agree with the majority in saying that Gamers are craving and demanding physical media right now. New and old. If you can commit to that with the next generation of xbox, I can't see how it could possibly fail. Give the people want they want right?

[𝐢𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐱 @ivvanex]

See? At least they care enough to communicate with its costumers.

Fuck you, @PlayStation. You'll pay a very high price for ignoring us.

[Scott Van Vliet @scottvanvliet]

Earlier today, many players began experiencing issues with sign in, enumerating their game libraries and playing games. The team has worked hard throughout the day to fix the issue, and we've restored service as of 2:30 PM PDT. Nonetheless, this is an unacceptable situation, and we must do better to support you.

Over the coming weeks, you'll hear more from me about our services, our platform, and the work we're doing to make XBOX better. And that starts with some transparency about this incident.

What happened. Late last night, a licensing service that sits outside of XBOX, but which XBOX depends upon, began failing. This caused some sign-in scenarios to fail, and it caused many scenarios that require an entitlement check to also fail, such as listing out your Full Library and launching games that you own. It also affected several of our publishing and store partners who depend on those same systems which is why some of you saw issues in specific games and not others.

What we did. Our on-call teams caught the first signals overnight through automated monitoring and declared a major incident. Once we isolated the failing infrastructure, we shifted traffic onto the healthy parts of the system while the team continued to work towards a root cause. Service came back unevenly across regions which is why some of you recovered hours before others.

What's next. We're running a full post-incident review. I care less about the one-line root cause and more about the real questions: why a failure in one service was able to take down this much, why recovery took as long as it did, and what we change so a single point of failure can't ruin your night again. That means hardening the dependencies underneath sign in and game launch, improving how we detect and contain this class of failure, and being faster and clearer with you when something breaks.

Thank you for your patience, and for the reports that genuinely helped us narrow this down. We'll do better.

[Riley Quessy @RileyQuessy]

@XBOXSupport As frustrated as I am about thr outages all day, I need to give credit for the consistent interactions so we at least don't feel FULLY left in the dark

[Does it play? @DoesItPlay1]

Sony wants to abandon fans? Let's give them a small taste of their own medicine!

Together with other creators we call for a 1 week #PSBlackout in August. No logins, no play sessions, no purchases on any of Sony's platforms.

[Riley Quessy @RileyQuessy]

@PlayStation Break stuff like consumer trust??

[Rino🚀 @RinoTheBouncer]

PlayStation will be introducing regional pricing starting August 20🚀

Regional pricing tends to mean higher pricing, so enjoy your all-digital future😅

NO DISC 💿 NO BUY

[Riley Quessy @RileyQuessy]

Guess it's worth mentioning that it was an Xbox game too. #BoycottSony

[Riley Quessy @RileyQuessy]

@VOIDInteractive Are you folks aware of the significant amount of crashes in Ready or Not on Xbox Series X? Please fix this

[Ricky | Save Physical Games! @RickyWinsKO]

Sony thinks we’re spineless.

They think we’ll yell for a week, then line up to hand them our money anyway.

They don’t respect us. They respect our wallets.

If you actually want things to change, prove them wrong.

NO DISC. NO BUY.

#BoycottSony