Sony went on to say that it takes a “firm stance” against such behavior, which includes examples like “persistent and repeated, or prolonged, demands, excessive or unreasonable demands for compensation or apologies, and abusive language, threats, slander, and other similar behaviors.”

Other examples included “forcing someone to prostrate themselves” and “visiting our offices or related facilities without permission.” If any such behavior is confirmed, Sony says it may “restrict or suspend customer service” to protect its employees — and, if necessary, contact “police, lawyers, etc.” to take legal action or begin criminal proceedings against them.

  • NightShot@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    11 hours ago

    Fuck I hate this shit. Loved my playstations and now its all ruined. I bought so many games on sale and used.

    • Brimstone@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      1 day ago

      Do they even make good products anymore?

      I mean besides PlayStation which they are trying to ruin 😅

    • DoctorWhoDMC@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      23 hours ago

      I’ve lived with hardcore capital-G Gamers.

      Simply not buying the game is never an option. May as well be trying to get smokers to boycott tobacco companies until they make their product cheaper. Good luck on holding out.

  • Tiral@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    1 day ago

    I’d say just stop buying that shit, but Americans have no self restraint at all. They pre-order digital fucking games to get a pair of cosmetic boots or some stupid shit.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      22 hours ago

      Americans have no self restraint at all.

      lol he thinks the stupidity is isolated to america.

      bro, wake up. enshittification didn’t start there or end there.

  • JoeTheSane@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    24
    ·
    1 day ago

    Well, hell. Let’s all get banned by them so they have a real count of how many customers they are losing.

  • Aeder@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    24
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    I’m so glad I never gave any serious amount of money to Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo.

  • LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    36
    ·
    2 days ago

    That leaves only one available option for protest. I don’t think they want to funnel everyone into moving away from PlayStation entirely. Or maybe they do, maybe xbox infiltrated and is taking them down from the inside, wait, where’s my popcorn…

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 day ago

      Sony is making it so easy for Xbox to take the crown again. I really hope Microsoft can follow through and don’t fuck it up, we need competition, not for Xbox to take themselves out of business and turn Playstation into a monopoly.

    • myyass@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      2 days ago

      Moving away from Sony as much as possible. I may or may not use questionable websites to watch anime and movies. and I sold all my Sony stuff except a PS3 and Headphones, which will also be sold.

        • myyass@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          2 days ago

          That’s good for some but usually these websites arise as soon as they go down. It also makes for a grey area since you don’t have the media on your hard drive. That’s why Sony tries so hard to shut them down and push their crunch hole subscription. I think they shot themselves in the foot already enough that just not buying their stuff is effective. The silent No Thank You approach is really effective pretty much for everything.

          • hraegsvelmir@ani.social
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            9
            ·
            2 days ago

            I think they were implying you should put custom firmware on your PS3 so you could just play pirated games on it, rather than selling them.

  • fulg@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    190
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    My initial read of the headline was that Sony would now make it a policy to harass its customers that do not agree with the new plans…

    • andallthat@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      25
      ·
      2 days ago

      Same! I got to the third paragraph of the article before understanding they were not planning to harass their customers (or at least not in new ways…)

    • vinnymac@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      21
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      Isn’t that what they announced when deciding future titles won’t be on discs? I thought that was them plainly telling us, “we will be harassing the consumers of our products going forward”.

      This is just the follow up where they’re saying “we won’t let you harass us back, because we are a big scary powerful corporation, and you are just a weak small individual.”

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    82
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    2 days ago

    We made a bad decision and people got upset.

    The problem according to Sony: the people.

    Get bent Sony, you put your front line workers through this bullshit, you don’t get to cry foul. How fucking stupid.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    59
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    2 days ago

    Ah, yes. Desperately falling back on making a tone argument of all things is a sure fire indicator that somebody doesn’t have a single leg left to stand on. Sony’s decades-long pattern of behavior does not put them in a position to be able to enjoy that luxury.

    In other words: Get the fuck outta here with that.

    • Talcosis@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      28
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      2 days ago

      IDK, some of those demands are absolutely reasonable. Nobody should be making threats or visiting their facilities.

      Just stop buying products connected to Sony. I did when they did the helldivers account thing back in the day. That’s why I never played helldivers, actually.

      • rumba@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        14
        ·
        2 days ago

        Protesting outside facilities should be allowed. Though honestly pointless, just give them what they want and leave their ecosystem

  • Surp@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    21
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    Someone please figure out Linux on ps5 native so I can dump their crappy OS

    • strifegroove@ani.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      2 days ago

      Requires you to not update. There is potential for firmware 13.6 right now if I remember once someone cracks it

  • Babalugats@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    119
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    Has Sony just dared it’s entire customer base to take part in a forced boycott?

    The equivalent of somebody getting themselves barred from a pub/bookies/casino because they know that they can’t do it on their own.

    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      34
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      They say Microsoft and Xbox start to take a tumble and said to themselves “How badly can we fuck ourselves too?”

      • Gsus4@mander.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        2 days ago

        Apparently, it is already out 😁

        Happy cake on fire day!

        eg here

        oh wait, no, here

        wait, no, here:

        no, it was actually the previous one, they look the same :/

    • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      2 days ago

      I’m in! As long as I don’t have to get rid of my psx, PSP, ps2, ps3, and ps4. I promise not to give them another dime, or use any of their shitty online services… Though to be honest I started boycotting them about the time the first Destiny expansion was launched.