Brian Petito

[Ultima @UltimaShadowX]

The sheer arrogance is disgusting. If you don’t give a shit about your consumer base, why should I give a shit about your products? I grew up with PS1 but I just don’t see myself supporting PlayStation as a platform any more if this is how little they think of their audience.

[Maku @TropicalMaku]

Even game developers are not happy with you @Sony @PlayStation. You fucked up. You forgot PlayStation has always been a platform people went to for physical games and even used for watching their physical movies/shows on.

[Slaybix @SIaybix]

Imagine announcing you’re going fully digital and while the world still hates you for it, your platform goes down for hours… rendering all digital games useless 😭

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Let me tell you about the time Sony put malware on 22 million music CDs.

Sony the corporation, on purpose.

2005. you buy a CD at a music store. you get home. you put it in your computer. Windows autorun kicks in.

Sony's software silently installs a rootkit on your system. It hides itself using the same techniques professional malware uses to evade detection. it runs constantly in the background. it phones home to Sony with information about what you're listening to.

and it cannot be uninstalled.

The removal tool Sony eventually released to fix it required your email address and installed additional software that introduced further vulnerabilities. the fix was worse than the rootkit.

A security researcher named Mark Russinovich found it on Halloween 2005. published his findings. the internet erupted.

Sony's President of Global Digital Business responded: "most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"

things then got worse:
other malware authors discovered that anything hidden using Sony's rootkit technique became invisible to antivirus software too. they started hiding their own malware inside the same hidden directory. Sony had accidentally created the perfect malware concealment system and shipped it to 22 million people.

50 artists had CDs with the rootkit. Celine Dion. Neil Diamond. Santana. none of them knew.

Van Zant's album that started the whole investigation ranked 887 on Amazon. after reviews warned about the rootkit it dropped to 25,802 in three weeks.

Sony recalled the CDs. settled with the FTC. paid millions. Mark Russinovich became CTO of Microsoft Azure.

the rootkit is the reason we now consider autorun a security risk.

Sony shipped malware to protect music.

the malware protected nothing.

the music got pirated anyway.

[Naomi Misora 🐉🩵 @Naomi_Misora93]

¡Por fin, viernes por la tarde, al vicio!

Voy a jugar al MediEvil, que tengo ganas. Oh! Vaya… no puedo.

No pasa nada, pues al Ender lilies. Oh! Tampoco… que los 2 son digitales y están los servidores de PlayStation caídos.

Pues al Uncharted que es FÍSICO y ✨SI PUEDO JUGAR✨

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

PlayStation Network is down again for millions of users, and people can’t play their license-purchased games.

Players around the world are reporting they can’t sign in, play online, access the PlayStation Store, or use other PSN features.

This is the future PlayStation is pushing: once servers are down or have problems, all your games will be useless.

[Evgeny Yurichev 💿 @evgenyyurichev]

No disc - No buy

@Sony @PlayStation #Sony #Playstation
#NoDiscNoBuy

[Nick “Partner Pushing” Astalos @Nick_Astalos]

i am so sorry insomniac but this is playstations fault. they shot themselves in the foot and they wanna pretend they’re fine. this is what fucking happens and it’s gonna keep happening.

WE WONT STAY QUIET. SAVE PHYSICAL GAMES.

[𝐒𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡 #SavePhysicalGaming @Shunkiroth]

Nuestro movimiento contra Sony PlayStation va mucho más allá de recuperar el formato físico, asegurar nuestras bibliotecas digitales o rescatar el mercado de segunda mano.

➡️ Nuestro movimiento está reactivando el sentido común en la gente.

Muchos están saliendo a comprar sus cosas a la tienda más próxima al comenzar a concienciarse.
Se han disparado las ventas de videojuegos físicos, CDs de música y en definitiva, formatos tangibles.

➡️ Creo que este es el inicio de la revolución de los consumidores, la debacle del sobre-control del mercado y el fin de la manipulación al consumidor.

Millenials y Gen Z comenzamos a estar muy despiertos y escuchadme bien cuando os digo que, como seamos capaces de inculcar esto a los niños de la gen Alfa, los hijos del digital, esto será un Game Over para las corporaciones.

No vacilés ni un momento, este es el camino. 💪🏼

SAVE THE DISC 📀 SAVE VIDEOGAMES

[𝐒𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡 #SavePhysicalGaming @Shunkiroth]

Hacer ruido contra Sony SÍ FUNCIONA:

➡️ Sus posts comerciales se ven comprometidos y sus relaciones con desarrolladoras con ellos al recibir quejas por la mala promoción que están dando.

➡️ Bajan sus ventas al ahuyentar a posibles compradores y bajan sus subs, reservas y compras de usuarios por perder toda fiabilidad.

➡️ Se informa a más usuarios sobre la situación actual de la empresa y el devenir del gaming.

➡️ Sony tiene que terminar pagando costes de rectificación, devoluciones y reembolsos.

➡️ Puede provocar caídas en el precio de sus acciones por poner a sus inversores en desconfianza.

➡️ Afecta a su reputación, la cual tardarán muchos años en reconstruir después de esto.

➡️ Los lleva a investigaciones de consumo.
Al amasar tantas quejas y demandas, se activan protocolos y tienen que pasar auditorías varias.

➡️ Sanciones gubernamentales que gracias al eco que se da a la situación se tiran para delante.

➡️ Y la más importante, se evita que la empresa se recupere y estabilice, dejándola en una situación propicia, social y económicamente en entredicho, para obligarla a rectificar.

📝🔥 Que nadie os diga que hacer ruido no sirve, porque es justamente el poder que tenemos como fans y usuarios frente a las empresas y el mayor miedo que estas tienen es que se extienda, al desestabilizar completamente su mercado.

🤫❌ Callar y simplemente irnos no hace el trabajo, si queremos cambiar las cosas hay que mantener la antorcha bien arriba, mantenernos unidos y pasen 15 días, 2 meses o un año entero, tener la entereza suficiente para seguir hasta ganar.

En ello nos va el futuro del gaming, nuestro bienestar y derechos a la tinencia física y digital, miles de puestos de trabajo en el sector y el mercado entero de segunda mano, pero no solo eso.
También nos va la respuesta de las demás empresas, que tendrán que aflojar la cuerda y seguir los pasos de Sony para garantizar sus ventas y adecuarse al mercado que queremos y luchamos por restituir.

Esta lucha decide si somos NPCs en sus manos o consumidores despiertos a los que no pueden pasar por encima.

Seguid luchando, cada día. 💪🏼

SAVE THE DISC 📀 SAVE VIDEOGAMES

[Dawnlight🌞Neni / ART COMMISSIONS OPEN!! @PinkGeekNeni]

I KNEW IT.
I KNEW SONY WAS JUST TRYING TO KILL CD FORMATS ALTOGETHER
FUCK THEM WITH A STICK.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

According to Moore’s Law Is Dead, some third-party game studios are paying Sony thousands of dollars to feature their games on PlayStation’s official social media at specific times.

The report says some developers are frustrated because those paid posts are flooded with negative comments and community notes from players mad with PlayStation’s recent decisions

It also says this could become a bigger problem for future marketing campaigns, with GTA 6 mentioned as one example if the backlash continues.

Good job guys if this is true, complaining works

[RWBY @OfficialRWBY]

You want it, tag it! #greenlightvolume10

[Marvel Studios @MarvelStudios]

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[NZXT @NZXT]

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[The Late Show @colbertlateshow]

"If you did not know that Joe Biden was getting close to 270, Donald Trump just provided all the proof you will ever need."

[John Barrowman MBE @JohnBarrowman]

No human should be treated like this. Jb

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

COVID-19 deaths:
United States: 225,000
Population: 328.2 million

COVID-19 deaths:
Canada: 9,963
Japan: 1,716
Australia: 905
South Korea: 457
Vietnam: 35
New Zealand: 25
Taiwan: 7
Total deaths: 13,108
Total population: 364.6 million

Donald Trump: "It is what it is." Pathetic.

[Ana Navarro-Cárdenas @ananavarro]

These @ProjectLincoln billboards are up in Times Square.
#Jarvanka don’t want you to see them.
They are threatening to sue.
It’d be such a shame if people decide to retweet it...