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Lq465om A week? Is this a joke? How about 6 months, a year or even multiple? With that week they'll show Sony how little they resist and then they'll come back to their masters(Sony) with their "tails" between their legs and and with head down which will laugh at and even punish them. Reply
ohio_buckeye And they hope to accomplish what exactly? If they were serious, switch to pc or Xbox. Reply
bill001g I am sure sony is so scared 🙂 A bunch of users turn decide they are going to not use something they pay a monthly fee for but still pay the monthly fee. A perfect business model, you get money for providing nothing. Reply
chaos215bar2 Wouldn't it be more effective to tell people to keep playing the games they've paid for, but only buy new games on disc? And keep it up forever. That's my plan, anyway. No more discs means no more sales. Ever. A 1 week "blackout" I never even heard of before today doesn't seem like it's going to do much except tell Sony that people are so attached to their games, they can't even hold up a protest until Sony actually stops selling discs. Reply
hotaru251 will do literally nothing. 1week does nothing… want em to pay attention? no PSN for multiple months. Corpo only changes when profit is impacted enough Reply
Bigshrimp I like the thought of the blackout, but not the plan. One week will provide 0% incentive for Sony to change course. It would require a massive boycott for months or years to make them see the light. The only thing these companies care about is money and how best to exploit it from the slop eaters. Take the money away, and you take away their excuse to do said action that caused the money funnel to stop. Reply
dimar I haven't started my PS5 Pro since Sony announced the disc thing. I passed a 50ft HDMI active optical cable from my PC to the living room and enjoy gaming on the big screen with my PC. I'll keep the PS5 for the Wolverine game and then probably will sell it. Reply
TerryLaze Sony doesn't just make money on the subscriptions…. they make money from online sales of games and dlc and whatever else. If this group could get enough people to stop using PSN for a week it would be a considerable loss of money to sony. The thing is that they won't get enough people to do it for it to have an impact. Reply
derekullo Remember back in April 2011 when hackers forced Sony's network down for 23 days? If Sony can survive that then a 7 day partial boycott doesn't stand a chance of success. If anything a partial boycott saves them money in server costs. Reply
TerryLaze derekullo said: If Sony can survive that They are not trying to destroy sony….. They don't want playstation to stop existing. derekullo said: If anything a partial boycott saves them money in server costs. They pay for the servers no matter what, (as long as PSN exists) they have a maximum throughput on them but that does not mean that being below that maximum is cheaper for them. Reply
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