The thing I hate most about Sony is the wasted potential, they have such good business assets that are wasted by ideologically focused and incompetent management.
If they had someone even half as good as Gabe in that level of control, they'd have dominated most of the market but their actions just squander all those products.
There is nothing worse than a good game being ruined by a publisher trying to milk something.
Middle Earth Shadow of War is probably one of the most fun action games of the last decade, but Warner Bros tried to shove MTX in it last minute and that killed anyone's desire to play it (despite them being so useless even the devs mocked and later removed them).
They are also in some petty dispute with Falcom which is causing the English release of Trails of Cold Steel 1 and 2 to be in some weird licensing limbo that is preventing the switch port from coming out over here and leaving the PS4 version out of print for physical copies.
How did xseed actually capitulate to Sony? I played the Trails and Ys series before I was aware of the localisation problem, so I don't know if they were heavily censored or not.
I'm not sure what you are trying to imply, however I am always amazed that the same company that was known for installing rootkits on peoples computers with music cds in the 2000s to prevent copying, as well as a bunch of other anti consumer nonsense over the decades, somehow gets such amazing PR, that people still stupidly think their recent cucking to the woke is a recent exception to the trend, and not the result of a shit company continuing to be a shit company.
There is the multiple proprietary formats that they have used to try and have absolute control, such as betamax and blu ray. While betamax thankfully failed, the proprietary DRM bullshit in Blu-ray continues to be a thing.
They continued to make Spiderman movies for the sole purpose of holding onto the license. This eventually led to Disney being unable to use the character without Sony's permission despite Spiderman being a Marvel character.
There is the Vita using a proprietary micro sd card format that prevented you from saving your game unless you paid Sony for a Sony branded micro sd card that they charged you several times the normal price for, despite it just being a basic ass micro sd card. A regular micro sd card will not be recognized without hacking the Vita software, despite the fact is literally just a regular micro SD card slot.
There is the thing with the Bleem emulator software company being bankrupted by Sony after Bleem beat them in court. This was a major blow to the emulator software scene for years after.
They were working with Phillips to develop standards for the then upcoming CD-ROM format. They reportedly pushed for making the cd slightly bigger at the last minute because they knew Phillips was already building up a factory to be able to make CDs at the currently agreed upon size and increasing the size fucked over Phillips completely.
While Microsoft and Nintendo have long since buried the hatchet, for many years, Sony was the main reason that many cross platform games such as Minecraft, could not crossplay with Sony's consoles.
Similarly, Sony and Epic had some issue where logging into Fortnite on the PS4 locked you out of being able to login to Fortnite on the Switch. Sony shrugged their shoulders and gave no explanation until it became such a big deal they had to address it. Meanwhile the Xbox had no such problems with the Switch from the start.
Originally Sony had sold the Vita is being a system that could stream content from the ps3 over 3G data signal. This turned out to be such bullshit they got sued over it by the FTC
They were fined by the EU some years ago for colluding with other companies to fix the price of videotapes and then shredding the evidence and obstructing the investigation into the price fixing
The very thing that led to them creating the Playstation in the first place, was part of their corpo strategy back in the 90s to buy out other companies as much as possible, kind of like how Microsoft is doing now. The deal they had with Nintendo would have given Sony a major foothold in the gaming space while fucking over Nintendo's business, which would have allowed Nintendo to be acquired by them. From my understanding, during the time they were working on the Playstation together, Sony also filed a patent for a cd rom based console that didn't have Nintendo's name anywhere on it that was generic enough they could have sued Nintendo if they ever tried to make a cd console without them. I bet you never hear that part of the "NIntendo betrayed Sony!" story.
Sony currently owns about 95% of the American anime market through subsidiaries (Crunchyroll, aniplex, funimation, rightstuf, etc.). The whole "KickVic" thing was done with approval from them as they were involved in "investigating" the allegations. The reason the American anime market is so shit right now is almost entirely their fault as they are almost all of it.
The PSN went down for weeks like in 2011 after a hack exposed the personal info (including credit cards) of like 100 million people, due to their shit security practices. AFAIK they only ever got a slap on the wrist for this and everyone magically forgot this happened a few months later.
They once updated the firmware on the PS3 just to block people from installing Linux on it.
They were trying, along with Microsoft, to push for an "always online" console for the ps4 and only changed course when they saw how badly the Microsoft E3 press conference was received.
They have been accused of creating artificial scarcity on console launches to drive up demand. Either that or they are really shit at launching consoles with sufficient stock because it seems to happen to them a lot going all the way back to the ps2.
Some people figured out how to break the encryption on the PS3 architecture to install homebrew and published a report on their findings. Sony sued the shit out of them.
Its because people played Sony games in their childhood, remember them as not having controversy (because they were children and no one cared at the time to document it), and thereby conclude they must have been based.
Every single JRPG in the 90s would have the same level of "BEHEAD LOCALIZERS" drama if released right now because the same shit was happening then, just with "Jap's are stupid" instead of woke politics.
And the issue with leftist wall-of-text "memes" is that more than half is a set-up for the "joke" that consists of making the reader do mental gymnastics to try to parse the intentions and point of view of the creator. It's never just a simple observation of objective reality, it needs to first redefine reality, before attempting to poke fun at it. That's why they always fall flat.
I agree with the essence of this comic but this is bad and we shouldn't updoot just because he's based. Artist needs to make more and study visual language/brevity/subtlety/etc.
The thing I hate most about Sony is the wasted potential, they have such good business assets that are wasted by ideologically focused and incompetent management.
If they had someone even half as good as Gabe in that level of control, they'd have dominated most of the market but their actions just squander all those products.
There is nothing worse than a good game being ruined by a publisher trying to milk something.
Middle Earth Shadow of War is probably one of the most fun action games of the last decade, but Warner Bros tried to shove MTX in it last minute and that killed anyone's desire to play it (despite them being so useless even the devs mocked and later removed them).
Half Life 3 confirmed?
They are also in some petty dispute with Falcom which is causing the English release of Trails of Cold Steel 1 and 2 to be in some weird licensing limbo that is preventing the switch port from coming out over here and leaving the PS4 version out of print for physical copies.
How did xseed actually capitulate to Sony? I played the Trails and Ys series before I was aware of the localisation problem, so I don't know if they were heavily censored or not.
Imagine thinking soyny was ever based.
I'm not sure what you are trying to imply, however I am always amazed that the same company that was known for installing rootkits on peoples computers with music cds in the 2000s to prevent copying, as well as a bunch of other anti consumer nonsense over the decades, somehow gets such amazing PR, that people still stupidly think their recent cucking to the woke is a recent exception to the trend, and not the result of a shit company continuing to be a shit company.
Off the top of my head:
The PSP go
The Sony Vaio line of computers shudders
There is the multiple proprietary formats that they have used to try and have absolute control, such as betamax and blu ray. While betamax thankfully failed, the proprietary DRM bullshit in Blu-ray continues to be a thing.
They continued to make Spiderman movies for the sole purpose of holding onto the license. This eventually led to Disney being unable to use the character without Sony's permission despite Spiderman being a Marvel character.
There is the Vita using a proprietary micro sd card format that prevented you from saving your game unless you paid Sony for a Sony branded micro sd card that they charged you several times the normal price for, despite it just being a basic ass micro sd card. A regular micro sd card will not be recognized without hacking the Vita software, despite the fact is literally just a regular micro SD card slot.
There is the thing with the Bleem emulator software company being bankrupted by Sony after Bleem beat them in court. This was a major blow to the emulator software scene for years after.
They were working with Phillips to develop standards for the then upcoming CD-ROM format. They reportedly pushed for making the cd slightly bigger at the last minute because they knew Phillips was already building up a factory to be able to make CDs at the currently agreed upon size and increasing the size fucked over Phillips completely.
While Microsoft and Nintendo have long since buried the hatchet, for many years, Sony was the main reason that many cross platform games such as Minecraft, could not crossplay with Sony's consoles.
Similarly, Sony and Epic had some issue where logging into Fortnite on the PS4 locked you out of being able to login to Fortnite on the Switch. Sony shrugged their shoulders and gave no explanation until it became such a big deal they had to address it. Meanwhile the Xbox had no such problems with the Switch from the start.
Originally Sony had sold the Vita is being a system that could stream content from the ps3 over 3G data signal. This turned out to be such bullshit they got sued over it by the FTC
They were fined by the EU some years ago for colluding with other companies to fix the price of videotapes and then shredding the evidence and obstructing the investigation into the price fixing
The very thing that led to them creating the Playstation in the first place, was part of their corpo strategy back in the 90s to buy out other companies as much as possible, kind of like how Microsoft is doing now. The deal they had with Nintendo would have given Sony a major foothold in the gaming space while fucking over Nintendo's business, which would have allowed Nintendo to be acquired by them. From my understanding, during the time they were working on the Playstation together, Sony also filed a patent for a cd rom based console that didn't have Nintendo's name anywhere on it that was generic enough they could have sued Nintendo if they ever tried to make a cd console without them. I bet you never hear that part of the "NIntendo betrayed Sony!" story.
Sony currently owns about 95% of the American anime market through subsidiaries (Crunchyroll, aniplex, funimation, rightstuf, etc.). The whole "KickVic" thing was done with approval from them as they were involved in "investigating" the allegations. The reason the American anime market is so shit right now is almost entirely their fault as they are almost all of it.
The PSN went down for weeks like in 2011 after a hack exposed the personal info (including credit cards) of like 100 million people, due to their shit security practices. AFAIK they only ever got a slap on the wrist for this and everyone magically forgot this happened a few months later.
They once updated the firmware on the PS3 just to block people from installing Linux on it.
They were trying, along with Microsoft, to push for an "always online" console for the ps4 and only changed course when they saw how badly the Microsoft E3 press conference was received.
They have been accused of creating artificial scarcity on console launches to drive up demand. Either that or they are really shit at launching consoles with sufficient stock because it seems to happen to them a lot going all the way back to the ps2.
Some people figured out how to break the encryption on the PS3 architecture to install homebrew and published a report on their findings. Sony sued the shit out of them.
Its because people played Sony games in their childhood, remember them as not having controversy (because they were children and no one cared at the time to document it), and thereby conclude they must have been based.
Every single JRPG in the 90s would have the same level of "BEHEAD LOCALIZERS" drama if released right now because the same shit was happening then, just with "Jap's are stupid" instead of woke politics.
I think somewhere around 2016 they relocated their headquarters from japan to (((California)))
ever since then Sony has been on the path of faggotization, Niggerization and general jewry as seen in the last of us 2
Tl;dr, looks like a leftist meme with its walls of text.
Because it's not a meme, it's a comic strip.
And the issue with leftist wall-of-text "memes" is that more than half is a set-up for the "joke" that consists of making the reader do mental gymnastics to try to parse the intentions and point of view of the creator. It's never just a simple observation of objective reality, it needs to first redefine reality, before attempting to poke fun at it. That's why they always fall flat.
It's not a very good one.
I've read an awful lot of bad webcomics in my day and this is pretty bottom of the barrel stuff right here.
Another issue is they have too much text.
Honestly.. someone should just make a nazi game. But the nazis are rainbows, uglies and poc.
Instead of spreading democracy, it spreads monkey pox.
On the bottom, who's the guy in the middle picture frame? He looks familiar.
I agree with the essence of this comic but this is bad and we shouldn't updoot just because he's based. Artist needs to make more and study visual language/brevity/subtlety/etc.
Lol, what are the three games (apart from Crash) referenced here, out of interest..?
I don’t really care about half-naked dude (bottom panel), but I don’t recognize the other two either, so…
I’m interested to know, actual gamers! Because I’m not much of one, ha.
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Asserting jewish race war
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Poster is asserting that Leftism is an extension of a jewish race war.
Do what you got to do.
I'm just the Alt-Right version of 'the Daily Show' only for entertainment reasons, surely nothing political.
I understand Leftist mods don't explain nor debate.
They do that as well.