Harsh reminder:
Shuhei Yoshida, the previous Head of Playstation, cared a lot about the customer. He was the one who made sure the PS4 had physical shareable discs that you could lend to friends or buy/sell used.
Then one day, the then President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment Jim Ryan kicked Shuhei Yoshida out of the position of Head of PlayStation in 2019 because Yoshida disagreed with his direction for the company.
In hindsight, Jim Ryan’s “direction” became Playstation’s obsession with live service. Yoshida presumably told Ryan that it was a bad idea, and turns out, it was.
With Shuhei Yoshida gone, Hermen Hulst took his place.
After that, Playstation changed - the gutting of Sony Japan Studios in 2021, censorship of Japanese games ramped up, the live service, and the increase in consumer-hostile decisions such as PSN+ price hikes, removing games and movies from your library…
And now the decision to abandon physical discs by 2028.
When you look back at what made Playstation start to rot, it always started when Sony Interactive Entertainment moved its operations to California…and having leadership who want to do everything in their power to get rid of what made Playstation special.
You will never get another Shadow of the Colossus, another Bloodborne or a Gravity Rush - and you have people like Jim Ryan and Hermen Hulst to thank for it.
Let me be VERY clear for those of you in the back. If bringing down the largest child sex trafficking ring in our known history will "collapse the government as we know it," then the government as we know it needs to collapse.
somewhere in the world, there is a girl crying over this bcs she finally feels sincerely represented in a world that does not care abt muslim countries except for their aesthetics (je parle de moi)
"We have cameras everywhere in that town and you cannot get a breath of fresh air without us knowing"
When police are admitting this out loud, it's time to admit the cage isn’t coming, we're already inside it.
CNN: You jumped into a pool with a full suit on. What's with the full suit? Why not some shorts or, you know, some trunks?
Mamdani: I think I misunderstood the term swimsuit.
Here’s what “Digital-Only Gaming” means🚀
✅If your account is hacked/lost/suspended, you lose the games you paid for
✅If the PSN (or any service network) is down, you can’t access games you paid for
✅If you change your region, by their terms, you need to create a new account because they have no account region change or transfer, so you lose the games you paid for
✅If you don’t use your account for 36 months, you lose the games you paid for because Sony, by their terms, will take steps to close your account
✅If you aren’t connected to the internet, you cannot access the games you paid for
✅If a digital license expires or any falling out occurs between the digital storefront and the game’s studio/publisher, you will lose access to games you paid for (like they removed 500 movie purchases without compensation just 2 weeks ago)
So if you consider this “the future” and “the evolution” cool, enjoy! Not everyone likes to be c**ked by corporations and scammed for their money, over things they bought and paid for.
A video game you bought that can be taken away anytime, is no different nor less serious than a refrigerator, a piece of clothing, a car or a hairdryer that you bought, and somehow the manufacturer can switch off from their end without compensation.
FIGHT FOR PHYSICAL GAMES🕹️
NO DISC. NO BUY💿
If i was the CEO of a video game studio/developer right now, I'd tell Sony that I don't want my teams games to appear on PlayStation ever again unless they reverse their all digital decision.
Would also love to see the likes of Hideo Kojima tell them to shove it.
“Why would you care if you haven’t used it in 3 years??”
you wouldn’t let people walk into your house and just take shit you paid for, no matter if you still use them or not.
It feels like the fact they’re being silent about this makes me think they know we’re gonna be waiting for them to come back so we can bash them more each day
“He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn’t your daddy.”
Guardians of the Galaxy spends two films letting Yondu hide behind threats & sarcasm. Then it strips all of that away in a single sentence & finally lets Peter see the man who raised him.
Music is still released on Vinyl, CDs and even Cassette
Movies are still released on Blu-Ray
Despite the prevalence of digital & streaming for both
There's no reason games cannot continue to be on physical discs ..
Vuelvo y repito: a las mujeres en esta época de paranoia woke se nos tiene prohibido aparecer en el cine o hablar de cualquier mínimo problema de la mujer o enfatizar el hecho de que se es fuerte, porque entonces cae una ola de odio de tipos en internet que exigen que no existan representaciones femeninas en nichos que ellos creen que son generalizados o masculinizados.
Ejemplo: aquí la gente cree que Disney es una empresa para todo público y el tener un producto que ellos consideran femenino entonces debe ser criticado, minimizado y odiado.
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN
DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN
DO NOT BE DISTRACTED.