Just to clear confusion, I see a lot of people saying "oh Sony is just trying to save money by cutting physical releases".
No they are not, they are actually willing to cut down a good chunk of income to create full market control.
If physical games were a loss leader there would have been something completely wrong with the production and distribution of video games and gaming wouldn't be as big as it was today.
Financially speaking this done to increase prices down the road, lock people into an eco system and make people dependent on their platform by creating sunk-cost fallacy. All your eggs in one basket. Because once you spend 1000's of dollars into your account. Its going to be really hard to just give it up. Because you can't just go out and sell your collection on ebay.
But yeah tell me again why this is supposed to be good for you as a customer. You are willingly becoming the products and you don't even realize it.
Just to show you how scummy Sony is being with this news.
They anticipated their numbers would drop through people protesting/boycotting by canceling Ps Plus and pre-orders but they won't have to show their numbers to investors until the end of September.
Their next earnings call is July 31st however it only covers up to June 30th. They planned this out perfectly to drop it on July 1st for this very reason. The numbers dip early July, they have over 2 months to watch them HOPEFULLY recover as the deperate gamers crawl back and the investors see that Sony moving away from physical games didn't hurt anything.
Keep this is mind as we move forward. Sony is betting on you caving and crawling back to them in the coming weeks. Oh and so are the investors.
‼️A FRIENDLY REMINDER‼️
The “85% purchases are digital” figure is a complete LIE.
They include figures like mobile games, small games without a physical release, and even *DLC* into that number.
People buy physical, but they want you to feel small and powerless. DON’T LET THEM
FUCK YOU PLAYSTATION!
FUCK EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE FOR US PHYSICAL MEDIA COLLECTORS
FUCK YOU
FUCK YOUR ENTIRE DEPARTMENT OF BULLSHIT
WE DEMAND OWNERSHIP NOT A FUCKING LICENSE THAT CAN BE REVOKED AT ANY FUCKING TIME
The internet might be over.
I am not talking about the corporate, ad-filled internet. I mean the real one. The one you use to talk with your friends, find niche communities, and freely share ideas. The way you access and interact with the digital world is about to change forever if we don't speak up right now.
The U.S. House of Representatives just passed the KIDS Act. Do not let the well-intentioned name fool you. This massive legislative package is a wolf in sheep’s clothing that could potentially cause an unfathomable amount of damage to the privacy, security, and free speech of every single citizen in the United States.
Major civil liberties and digital rights organizations, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) are sounding the alarm. This bill is a massive over-reach of legislation designed to curtail your freedoms, everyones.
Under this bill, websites and apps will be pressured to verify the age of all users to avoid massive legal liability. This creates a de facto age-verification mandate, meaning you could soon be forced to upload government IDs, passports, or hand over biometric facial scans just to use standard apps or browse everyday websites. Forcing every corner of the web to collect and store these massive databases of citizen identity documents is an absolute cybersecurity nightmare waiting to happen, creating a golden target for hackers and data leaks.
The bill also takes direct aim at standard privacy features like disappearing or ephemeral messaging, treating basic digital privacy tools like dangerous design tricks rather than the digital equivalent of a private, real-world conversation. By weaponizing broad, vague definitions of "harmful content," the package pressures tech platforms to heavily over-censor completely lawful speech out of fear of massive government lawsuits. It risks sanitizing the internet and shutting down vital spaces for free expression and open communication.
This won't stop at signing up for websites, or chat apps. It will extend to artwork websites, multimedia hubs like Newgrounds, Music sites, even Reddit and 4chan will be subjected to this, and while you might think it's well deserved, you won't be saying that when they start asking users to verify their age on Mangadex or doujinshi sites, or on Itch io. Going to websites outside the US would be scrutinized if it doesn't follow the same criteria.
VPNs? Forget it, they'll try to outlaw those, too.
We all want children to be safe, but turning the entire internet into an Orwellian surveillance state where you have to show papers just to log on is a terrifying overreach. The bill has passed the House, which means the battleground is officially moving to the Senate. We cannot afford to sit this one out. This is a slippery slope and we must not give them this power over all of us.
It feels awesome to have no reaction at all to GTA 6, I actually feel morally superior because of it. Real human cattle will pay $80 for a base video game and basically consent to raising prices for an entire industry because they can’t break from hivemind
@Aivur_@wwarrior_1 Point is, the NPCs you fight in between the cutscenes are purely for gameplay reasons. No one counts those for any other game except this game. I wonder why?
@PasswordSuck2@wwarrior_1 She didn’t know she was pregnant and immediately regrets doing it after she finds out. And also the dog was attacking her, was Ellie supposed to just let the dog kill her?
Remember when Musk challenged the World Food Program to explain how he could solve world hunger with just $6 billion, they did, and he just completely ignored them?