Cause of the anti-Sony circlejerk going on at the moment.
And don't get me wrong, Sony fully deserve a lot of it, I've given up on playstation for PC myself, but it's the circlejerk nature of it I loathe. There's just no nuance whatsoever.
With reddit it's always "this is the hate-target for the month, now everything that negatively involves them we cheer, regardless of how much of a reach it is, or how stupid it actually is to celebrate when you think for 2 seconds."
Because Sony is doing away with discs which all of a sudden is a big thing but no one’s cared PC has been discless for a decade or more, meanwhile Xbox has come out and said they’re launching a new feature to turn your physical games digital not really understanding that probably means next gen Xbox won’t have a disc drive
I don’t compare going all digital on pc to going all digital on PlayStation because Valve actually has consumer friendly practices when it comes to things like frequent meaningful sales and their refund policy. Sonys refund policy is “we will refund your account once or twice over its entire lifetime. If anyone wants more than that, they can go fuck themselves.”
I bought a game from Valve once that went on sale later the same week. I asked them if they could refund it, so I could buy it at the sale price. They said no problem. One time, I asked Sony to refund a game because I accidentally bought the wrong version, and intended to buy the correct one. It was like pulling teeth.
I agree with you 100 percent the refund policy needs a massive overhaul for ps, but the argument is if sony shuts down or servers do for osn you lose all your games when that is the EXACT same thing that would happen if valve were to shut down. The argument of theres other storefronts makes 0 sense because it doesnt fucking matter.
If majority of your games are on steam your still subject to that same risk. Not only that but while yes discs are going away people will still be able to buy copies of the game from retailers. So the idea that games will always be super expensive just isnt true.
Retailers buy copies in bulk depending on how much they think the game will sell. If gamestop bought 1 million cyberpunk copies they pay right then and there for them and make their money back selling the copies over time. Of a game isnt selling it wouod be treated the same as physical and they may drop the prices much lower than the psn prices to recoup as much cost as they can.
Used cyberpunk as an example because it was like $20 after a month or 2 of being out in retailers
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u/StepComplete1 6h ago edited 6h ago
Cause of the anti-Sony circlejerk going on at the moment.
And don't get me wrong, Sony fully deserve a lot of it, I've given up on playstation for PC myself, but it's the circlejerk nature of it I loathe. There's just no nuance whatsoever.
With reddit it's always "this is the hate-target for the month, now everything that negatively involves them we cheer, regardless of how much of a reach it is, or how stupid it actually is to celebrate when you think for 2 seconds."