• FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Is Sony saying piracy is justified by making it not possible to buy this game? I guess if I have to.

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      1 year ago

      How many are pirating it in solidarity? I’d rather reject their anti-libre software entirely, make them irrelevant.

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        1 year ago

        I’m sorry you misunderstood what I said. I was saying that Sony is encouraging piracy by making it impossible to play their games legaly in some regions, including mine.

        Personally I don’t think piracy is wrong with the exception of indie devs. If you think you are fighting corporations by pirating then yea, that’s dumb but I haven’t heard that stance yet.

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      1 year ago

      Well I’m a PlayStation user, are you saying it’s justifiable for me to now pirate Starfield, Halo and every Xbox and steam exclusive game?

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        1 year ago

        If your only option to play a game is moving to a different country then I’d say it’s the most justifiable. If you only have a PlayStation piracy won’t really help you play PC or XBox games though so I don’t see how that would help.

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        1 year ago

        Well I’m a PlayStation user, are you saying it’s justifiable for me to now pirate Starfield, Halo and every Xbox and steam exclusive game?

        How, exactly, will you pirate those games to play them on your PlayStation?

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        1 year ago

        You can buy Starfield on Steam does it require an Xbox account to play if you buy it in steam? I think most are saying if you can buy it in steam but still need a psn account to play it then pirate it. I have both Xbox and PlayStation but I’m with the masses on this if you offer it on a platform then you shouldn’t require an account from a different platform to be able to play the game.

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    1 year ago

    Helldivers‘ success somehow caused a crazy knee jerk reaction among the management suits at Sony. This whole sudden „make a PSN account or fuck you“ is just bizarre. To me it seems like they’ve lost more than what they‘re hoping to gain from this. Just a mindboggling move.

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      1 year ago

      Definitely. They’ve gone for the stick instead of the carrot if they’re looking to juice PSN numbers, and gamers are a notoriously outspoken bunch.

      How they thought this would just fly without an uproar after such a great launch is way beyond me.

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      I think the issue is, asking people to set up PSN was the plan all along - and they somewhat ineptly realized months after their hit game’s release that caused a problem for Steam users not in PSN countries.

      Xbox and EA all require accounts for their games too, but they’ve done that forever, and are a bit more territory-neutral.

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    Sony doesn’t give a shit because non-PSN countries account for fuck all of their sales. Just pirate it and move on. Stop crying like it’s your Holy duty to give megacorps your money.

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    1 year ago

    Anti-libre software bans us from removing its malicious source code. It fails to include an AGPL license file. They can never deflect this, so keep saying it.