ShiftUp has been getting wrecked for hiring a Head of Communications Manager who specialized in DE&I. Then after being called out he removed it. 🥴 Why not just make a post being totally honest about your past work and explain exactly what you did? HONESTY IS KEY. SUS as hell.
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So supposedly there is some drama regarding this new hire regarding Shift Up. This Benzadon guy from France to which he wants to push DEI and that many here are worried and there is a right to be concerned.
However I highly doubt he will be as effective since Kim usually has the final say what happens with the company and he has always stood for beautiful female characters and fanservice especially when you see him retweet a lot of fan stuff.
That being said I do think Shift Up needs to slow down on hiring people. I know they became a public company and I am happy they are no longer a 2nd party support company for Sony. I am also happy for the upcoming Shinji Mikami game that Shift Up is helping out on but I want the companies I still hold dear such as Shift Up that there are many snakes in this corrupt gaming industry and they will take advantage completely if you are not careful.
I can excuse the awful Evie AI video since that was more of a joke music video, I can excuse the Persona *censored* collaboration since I do believe that Atlus told Shift Up to tone down the 🍑 regarding characters like Makoto (funnily enough the chibi model has a 🍑 but not the actual character model), but this one I want Shift Up to notice and be wary of people like this.
We already have companies such as Capcom, Square Enix, Koei Tecmo, Namco Bandai, Nintendo (their American branch known as NOA), and Sega that showed us that these people will hurt you and damage your reputation. Sure some will still be strong enough as Nintendo, some will have an inconsistent frustrating view like Capcom, and some... well absolutely self destruction such as Square Enix, Bandai Namco, and Marvelous Games.
In conclusion, Kim and Shift Up... please reconsider. And if not, at least keep this guy in full check. I am a massive fan of Stellar Blade and put over 1000+ hours on PS5 and near 500 hours on PC. It was an amazing video game that got me loving games in such an awful 9th generation thanks to safe sanitized slop. Let's not sacrifice any of the good will.
Sincerely, a massive Stellar Blade fan and a professional player at that.
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📩 Carta al gamer digital.
Si eres usuario de videojuegos digitales, me gustaría que recordaras siempre que el boicot contra de Sony no va contra ti.
PlayStation quiere imponer sus condiciones anti-consumidor a través del formato que usas, por eso, y vendernos licencias con fecha de caducidad al mismo precio que los juegos que siempre hemos comprado de nuestra propiedad.
Quiere centralizar los servicios en la PlayStation Store e inflar precios, encima de vendernos alquileres temporales. Todo esto usando el formato que has consumido hasta ahora.
Quieren eliminar costes de producción al completo y que solo haya beneficios para ellos, obviando las necesidades de la mitad de su fandom y despojándonos de todo derecho y opción sobre nuestros juegos. ¿Entiendes que la gente esté tan enfadada?
Sé que genera contrariedad ver a tanta gente quejarse del digital y es normal que uno se sienta desubicado siendo usuario de este formato pero mantén presente que es poque la empresa lo está usando como medio para despojarnos de derechos, opciones y el gaming como lo conocemos hoy en día.
Me gustaría mucho que entendieras que no existe guerra entre un formato y otro y que este boicot trata de devolvernos garantías tanto al físico como al digital, que aseguren que los juegos seguirán siendo nuestros y nadie nos los podrá quitar a placer.
Si no frenamos esto, cada cierto tiempo tendremos que comprar los juegos de nuevo a precios desorbitados porque con los cambios generacionales se van a cargar de un plumazo bibliotecas digitales enteras, como ya está sucediendo.
Defendemos el formato físico con tanto ahínco porque no está solamente en juego que dejen de vender juegos en tiendas o meros CiaB. También nos jugamos que filiales, retailers y miles de puestos de trabajo desaparezcan y no podemos permitir que porque unos cuantos CEOs quieran llenarse los bolsillos, eliminen y reescriban el gaming a placer.
Salvando al formato físico, salvamos toda la cadena, todo el mundillo gaming.
Esto no va solamente de un formato u otro, va de protegernos unos a otros, a nuestro hobbie, a quien trabaja en el sector y la forma en la que hemos vivido durante tantos años esta maravillosa cultura del entretenimiento virtual.
Pero la única forma que tenemos de parar la locura que están haciendo es darle a PlayStation donde más le duele, en el bolsillo. Solo de esta forma lograremos que lleguen sus reportes financieros y que se vea el descontento y las pérdidas por el maltrato, descuido y manipulación que ejercen con nosotros y si somos suficientes, sus accionistas no lo verán con buenos ojos, les abandonarán y tendrán que virar hacia un ecosistema que sí nos respete, al tener que recuperar toda la confianza perdida.
Para esto necesitamos todos tener conciencia social y dejar de mirar por nosotros mismos, si no por la industria que nos ha entretenido por tantos años y que ahora quieren moldear a placer tan vilmente.
Hoy puede que no se note pero si no hacemos nada, en muy poco tiempo habrán acabado con los videojuegos como los entendemos hoy en día.
Únete al boicot, compártele esta carta a quien la necesite y demostrémosle a Sony que somos mucho más que carteras andantes.
SAVE THE DISC 📀 SAVE VIDEOGAMES
We are watching the collapse of gaming and utter disrespect of players and the craft in real time, and we’re being gaslit to think it isn’t happening or that it’s somehow a good thing🚀
🗣️Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick argues that physical game discs make no sense for consumers
🗣️He also predicts that game streaming will be more commercial/mainstream in about 3 years due to the increasing prices of consoles and PC (Did he forget Stadia???)
So hear me out:
✅PCs and consoles became more expensive due to data centers
✅Now they want you to rent out data centers instead of the hardware that data centers caused to be overpriced
The same way they push physical games away:
❌We had was a box with a disc, a manual, a map and maybe another game’s demo
❌Then they took the items, then the map
❌And then they started making the game on disc require download or always being connected even for some single player games
❌Then they started counting DLC, MTX, free-to-play and digital only to inflate digital sales statistics and make it seem like physical games aren’t in demand, when even %10 is still million of people
❌Now they wanna take away disc, and to give you a code n the box, while the prices keep rising, while value and options keeps declining
This is their next step to making you own nothing, lock you into their ecosystem so you can remain subscribed and paying for their slop forever.
They will gaslight you into thinking “downloading games makes no sense, streaming is the way!”
Just like how the hypocrite argues physical games are like vinyl records and that “Sony knows better” when Sony themselves are marketing vinyl record players are the best way to listen to music and vinyl record sales are so high that artists release many variants to boost their album to No.1
And it’s crazy that gaming is the medium that needs physical media the most, as it’s the most demanding in terms of downloads and streaming compared to music, film, books and shows, all of which are far easier to access via download or streaming for a long time.
And as usual, gaming is the one industry where the customer is always assumed to be “wrong, entitled and toxic” and treated like children and expected to spend like adults, and also expected to worry about profits for CEOs, studio closures, and basically everything but their own best interest.
Enough is enough!
Stand up for your own self interest, before it’s too late for any meaningful change to happen.
NO DISC 💿 NO BUY
Nous y sommes ! 🙂
Les PS5 commencent à indiquer sur leur boite via une case « information importante » que les disques disparaissent en janvier 2028 :
À partir de janvier 2028, les nouveaux lancements de jeux pour PlayStation seront disponibles à l'achat sur le PlayStation Store et via les revendeurs UNIQUEMENT au format numérique.
Les disques de jeux lancés avant janvier 2028 resteront compatibles avec cette console.
Merveilleux n’est-ce pas ?
Sony avait évidemment prévu son coup depuis un bail. La fin du choix au détriment du joueur. 👎
#NoCDNoPLAYSTATION 👊💿