Sony PlayStation has been sued for £5 billion for ripping off nine million UK users

Corporations can get away with murder in this world, Nothing will happen to Sony and they will never pay 5 Billion.
 
cant win

I will be amazed if this gets anywhere, I agree they're ripping people off...so i choose not to have a playstation.
 
Forget the UK....this needs to happen WORLDWIDE and for ALL the gaming companies. There is absolutely no reason at all why Digital copies are just as much as physical copies. They should be CHEAPER due to no materials used at all....just DATA.


This NEEDS to happen....and eventually it will....but it will take a LONG time.
 
When games started to become available digitally, many saw it as an avenue that would eventually deliver cheaper games. After all, digital downloads don't require the printing of discs, the manufacture of boxes, global shipping, the stocking of retail shelves, or the payment of retail employees. All of these costs could be replaced by server costs, theoretically making games cheaper. This didn't happen.

If any one ever actually truly believed that then they are a mug. A complete mug.

The reason they want you to go digital is like everything else in the entertainment industry - control. They want to control what you have and when and will always see what you paid for as their property no matter what. It's the same with film and music. They want to charge you more for less, and for you not to have any choice in the matter.

As an example a digital album on Amazon costs more than buying a CD and ripping it yourself. And is usually always crap MP3.

When Dying Light 2 released I figured I would go on Cdkeys and buy it at around £30. IIRC it was £38, which made me pause. In the time I read how poor it was because of Denuvo? their keys had sold out. It then vanished for about two months, then came back.

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I can tell you where they can virtually shove that.

You know, if PC games got better and didn't have all of the problems associated with them? I would pay a little more for them. Maybe, at best, £40. However, when they perform worse than their console counterparts and now cost more? yeah, no thanks.

The industry just gets greedier and greedier whilst back handing the government to do stuff like this.

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That was just me searching "Dying Light 2" and then the file sharing T word. It immediately censors what you have searched for. So maybe that's why they are getting cocky because they think they are winning this control war? IDK. But exactly the same thing happened with Stray. It was a wee bit cheaper on CDK, then vanished.

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And once again I stalled waiting for the review and then found out it's a 4 hour game. Now? they want the full price. Nah, I'll pass thanks.

Remember, less is more.

Until kids born after 2000 wise up and TRULY "wake" up this will just continue. They will continue to get anally shafted before they realise how much wool is being pulled over their eyes. Sadly they have been woken in the complete opposite direction. Amazing how easy it is to brainwash someone.

As for me? back to getting games illicitly. And for once in my life I feel no shame about it whatsoever.

I also recently downloaded an app that plays YT content. It is incredibly aggressive, and literally rips out all adverts, all sponsors, all self whoring and everything else.

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Any colour other than red it forcibly skips. So why did I do that?

I have been watching Youtube for years. Well over a decade. However about three months ago I noticed it was getting terribly aggressive with the ads. Like, I would watch a 5 minute video and if I paused to go for a pee? it would play ads when I returned. At the end of the video? even when it was over it just goes on to show more ads.

And it was beginning to grate really bad. Like, worse than UK TV which is bad enough, but to the point of being like US TV.

And then Linus made that post about any one who uses an ad blocker to remove ads from his videos is a pirate.

/slow clap. Way to go douchebag. You finally pushed me over the edge and I decided to do something about it. Not that your whiny little ass continually whoring out your ludicrously over priced garbage merch with no warranty on it wasn't annoying enough.

So in return? argggggg ya bellend. Now I don't have to watch any of it.
 
I agree with all of that but to your point for gen z waking up... They can't, They were brought up on smartphones, Being hyper emotional, Emotions overruling common sense and logic etc etc...

As someone who lived at the start of all that crap, I concur. Exactly why I left that cesspool.
As for on topic, it's only illegal if they are fixing pricing with control of the market. Otherwise you can price your product at any price point... Doesn't mean people will buy it.

People complain about this stuff but spend $1k+ every year on a new iphone.
 
As someone who lived at the start of all that crap, I concur. Exactly why I left that cesspool.
As for on topic, it's only illegal if they are fixing pricing with control of the market. Otherwise you can price your product at any price point... Doesn't mean people will buy it.

People complain about this stuff but spend $1k+ every year on a new iphone.


I have an iPhone 8, Bought it refurbished from Amazon for around $80 last year, New screen, New glass on the front and back, New battery and it works really well, Yes I spend a lot on PC stuff but I get great joy from it, Phones on the other hand I could never pay anything over $100 for them, To me it's a basic tool, Phone, Text, 2FA application and that's it.
 
I usually buy a new one every three years. Mostly because that is about how long the battery lasts before it runs out after a couple of hours.

I usually cap that to £200 or less for an older model. The only exceptions to that are my ROG Phone III Tencent which was £380 (half the price or less than the "full fledged" stupid model with the fan) and my BB Passport which yeah, I paid £500 for at launch. The only phones I have ever bought when they were cutting edge.

I have expensive taste. Well, not so much expensive taste, I just like solid well made items that last. I just spent £50 on a kettle. That said, it was far less than the RRP of £180. I did that because I wanted it to be solid and last. That is the only way to assure you get something well made these days (and to read unbiased reviews, so Youtube is out of the question there, given they are all paid actors).

It's absolutely amazing how many Youtubers start out with quite critical reviews, then become like this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmBKtYKa6IE&ab_channel=CraftComputing

Notice the title "Changing my mind about ultrawide displays".

Yeah, that is because you got a free one. I don't like them, never have, and no matter if I got one for free I would not ever change my mind.

Mostly because they are not 100% compatible with 100% of games. Or movies etc. Which means they are just as stupid as they have ever been, unless you dedicate the entire set up to one game you chose literally just to play that game.
 
Yeah ultrawides are very niche, They can look nice ingame but if I had the money I'd much rather have a nice 4K monitor.
 
Yeah ultrawides are very niche, They can look nice ingame but if I had the money I'd much rather have a nice 4K monitor.

Problem for me is what I played, and have always played. Fallout 3, and 4, do not support it. Meaning I would need to play either with those nasty black bars. IDK if PUBG supports it, but I certainly wouldn't buy a new monitor just for it.

I suppose if Starfield supports it that may be good news for the next Fallout game, if I am still alive by then :D in which case yes, maybe you could convert me.

I just can't stand incompatibilities. It drives me up the friggin wall. Which is very tightly linked to me refusing to pay £50+ for broken games.
 
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