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My household has simple rules: no Ubisoft, no Sony, no Blizz/Activision. It helps that all three have been getting progressively worse over the years.
by A4ET8a8uTh0 3y ago
My household has simple rules: no Ubisoft, no Sony, no Blizz/Activision.
It helps that all three have been getting progressively worse over the years.
- bryondowd 3y agoJust out of curiosity, why Sony? Only negative thing I can recall hearing about them is blocking cross play to protect their console lead, which didn't seem too unreasonable to me.
- wlesieutre 3y agoThe Funimation shutdown is Sony Going back further, installing a rootkit on to customer computers to prevent ripping audio CDs
- pixelatedindex 3y agoI think there was a Discovery snafu as well? Like if you bought titles from the Discovery Channel on PSN, you don’t have access to those anymore. But I do think Sony should get a pass here. Or you have to blanket ban all digital goods but that seems detrimental. I understand the feeling though, as I too don’t buy anything digital outside of Steam.
- Hamuko 3y ago>Like if you bought titles from the Discovery Channel on PSN, you don’t have access to those anymore. That was cancelled. https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24011168/sony-playstation-discovery-shows-not-removed https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24011168/sony-playstatio...
- faeriechangling 3y agoI know somebody who has been boycotting them since the rootkit scandal
- breckenedge 3y agoThat was such a terrible move. For people who don’t know: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...
- serf 3y agoWell, there was the rootkits, the carpet-pull with regards to the PS3 and OS compatibility promises, the lawsuits against geohot, the SWAT raids and lawsuits against graf_chokolo, and now the digital library shit that's going on with Funi just adds to the history.