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ColeSloth, to piracy in Sony is going to remove certain purchased titles from user libraries

Like… They’re straight up taking it back? No refunding? That is so asinine.

linearchaos,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

“We sincerely thank you for your continued support.”

Not only are they not refunding, They seem to think you might purchase something else from them in the future.

ColeSloth,

And idiots will do it, too.

MindSkipperBro12,

Because most people will still continue to buy things.

dRLY,
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Even Google was giving people full refunds for all games that were bought on Stadia when they gave up on that. I can’t imagine that the total refunds would even be that bad for Sony given the increases they made for PSN prices. Would at least come across as at least pretending to “do right” to keep some level of trust from the people that have been buying non-game media from them. It would all be just a PR thing with some loss of current money for future money. Maybe even just offer a free amount of credit for getting some shows/movies from the Sony owned studios.

But since Sony is currently the number one, they will keep on their fuck shit until Microsoft or Nintendo are able to pull some big push. Playstation really only does kind of cool shit for customers when they aren’t in the lead.

ColeSloth,

Just FYI: there’s been about 45 million PS5’s sold to date. There’s been over 130 million Switch’s sold. PS4 sold 117 million during its total run.

They’re in the lead against Xbox. They don’t really cross paths with Nintendo. Different demographic, sort of.

MisterFrog,
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world avatar

You can bet Australian users will be entitled to a refund, should they be affected.

Similar to how “no refunds” didn’t fly with steam in cases where people are entitled to a refund under Australian Consumer Law.

CaptObvious, to piracy in Sony is going to remove certain purchased titles from user libraries

And this is why I never “buy” media online. If I can’t own the media and enjoy the content whenever and wherever I want, it’s rented. I may be ok with that, but I never let them claim that it was a sale.

SamXavia,
@SamXavia@kbin.run avatar

Sadly purchasing a phyical copy still will mean you can't play it due to the required download for most consoles these days.

CaptObvious,

Hence “and enjoy it whenever and wherever I want.” If they maintain control, it’s not sold. It is, at best, rented.

Fortunately, there are often tools to enforce the first sale doctrine.

MajorTom,

That’s one reason I’ve ordered a few titles from PlayAsia recently. For example, the NTSC switch edition of the Metal Gear Solid collection requires downloading the titles. With the PlayAsia edition, lo and behold- everything is on the card, and multiple languages to boot.

JokeDeity,

Never heard of that before today, that’s fucked, why even is that a thing?

psud, (edited )

Some places have crappy internet, so they need it

You and I can download a 1300MB game, it’s not necessarily so in Brunei

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