This is 100% proof Sony is going to write this off as a tax write off

Sony refunded everyone who bought the game though.

Turning into? They’ve always been this way. It’s been like 20 years since they decided it was ok to install rootkits on people’s PCs to protect their IP rights.

They've kinda always been shit to gamers, they just hid it from console gaming; PC gamers frequently got shafted by SOE.

They have always been this way:

Although Sony ultimately did not win any of its lawsuits against them, Bleem! had to shut down when the huge court costs became too much for the small company to handle. Bleem! shut down in November 2001…

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Turning into? Sony has been worse than Nintendo or Disney for years. They're the OG "we're going to silently brick your machine to protect our digital assets."

At least Nintendo had the decency to put in their EULA that they're going to fuck you for trying to pirate content on their proprietary hardware. Sony just bricked your personal PC because fuck you and then lied about it.

Happiness is value, and value must only be captured by the IP holder.

Sony is doing a Tax write off 100%

I've made a whole series of purchase decisions based on similar motivation. For decades I've avoided DSLRs, consoles, games, phones, tablets and a whole bunch of products made by Sony. I pirate what I can, everything else is just off-limits.

Same. I'll never make the mistake of purchasing a Sony product ever again

IIRC, it wasn’t a terrible game. It just wasn’t a unique enough game to compete in the space. Just another hero shooter. Just another live service. And thus it failed to meet overinflated expectations. Sony didn’t give it any time to grow or adapt.

Sony went all in on live service games, expecting them to all do gangbusters and to do so for forever. Their high expectations are slipping and failing to be met with Destiny. They bought Bungie for live service games too.

Oh, and Marathon. That one is in a precarious spot. Being delayed after an unexpectedly rough public beta.

Oh it's never about that. You can't milk a game that lives for free. Although they pay for publicity (ads, etc.), getting it for free means less cash flow, means less numbers on quarterly earnings, means less investor money.

It is always about the number on their bank account, never about you, me, or anyone else. They don't give a flying fuck, they'd happily let us burn in a house fire if it meant just a teensy bit more dollars.

Fuck Sony, Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, ActiBlizzosoft, and the rest of them.