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.

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      Do they even make good products anymore?

      I mean besides PlayStation which they are trying to ruin 😅

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      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.

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          Long-term, yes, but you’re dealing with short term managers who DGAF about long-term issues, they’ll be long gone with their bonuses, leaving this shit for other people to resolve

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

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    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.

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      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.

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

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

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

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

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    I hope Asha Sharma walks back the plans for Project Helix being digital only, because that would be their #1 advantage next gen IMO

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    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…

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      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…)

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      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.”

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    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.

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

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      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.