Nothing will fundamentally change until a large portion of gamers simply refuses to engage with this business model where you don't own the games you buy.
No more pre-ordering, no matter what, and anybody who pre-orders needs to be bullied mercilessly.
No more buying anything with always online requirements.
No more coercing consumers into accepting patches by restricting access to essential gameplay features.
No more patches without informed consent.
No more games that need patches in the first place.
No more requiring us to check a box agreeing to terms of service, and any bullshit found in the terms of service needs to be broadcasted to the internet.
There are so many amazing games from before the great pozzing, and so many of them continue to be modded. Not to mention indie games.
At this point these woke creeps are essentially defrauding consumers. Heck, wokalizers are also defrauding consumers along the same lines. We buy this stuff with our fucking money and they think they have the right to pull the rug out from under the products we buy like that?
Fuck these grimy sniveling little thieves, who think they're entitled to scam you out of your money if you don't share their retarded opinions. I'm this close to setting up a list of woke employees, so you can narrow down which scamming thieving little bitchasses vandalized your property. Nobody would tolerate a vendor who opens up a brand new product you ordered and scribbles all over it with permanent marker or sands off something they found offensive, if they're gonna all but steal our money like this then the gloves need to come off.
A lot of problems would be solved in the world if corporate crimes were punished by prison time rather than fines or lawsuits that can be shrugged off.
The corporate death penalty (forced dissolution of the company) is on the books already and should be handed out far more often than it does now, which is almost never.
I'm presuming that Sony simply forced their hand.
Nothing will fundamentally change until a large portion of gamers simply refuses to engage with this business model where you don't own the games you buy.
No more pre-ordering, no matter what, and anybody who pre-orders needs to be bullied mercilessly.
No more buying anything with always online requirements.
No more coercing consumers into accepting patches by restricting access to essential gameplay features.
No more patches without informed consent.
No more games that need patches in the first place.
No more requiring us to check a box agreeing to terms of service, and any bullshit found in the terms of service needs to be broadcasted to the internet.
There are so many amazing games from before the great pozzing, and so many of them continue to be modded. Not to mention indie games.
At this point these woke creeps are essentially defrauding consumers. Heck, wokalizers are also defrauding consumers along the same lines. We buy this stuff with our fucking money and they think they have the right to pull the rug out from under the products we buy like that?
Fuck these grimy sniveling little thieves, who think they're entitled to scam you out of your money if you don't share their retarded opinions. I'm this close to setting up a list of woke employees, so you can narrow down which scamming thieving little bitchasses vandalized your property. Nobody would tolerate a vendor who opens up a brand new product you ordered and scribbles all over it with permanent marker or sands off something they found offensive, if they're gonna all but steal our money like this then the gloves need to come off.
A lot of problems would be solved in the world if corporate crimes were punished by prison time rather than fines or lawsuits that can be shrugged off.
If the punishment is a fine, it's legal for a price.
The corporate death penalty (forced dissolution of the company) is on the books already and should be handed out far more often than it does now, which is almost never.