ValiantInstance
Member
"Current market conditions"
Apparently Sony's multiplayer servers run on oil.
Apparently Sony's multiplayer servers run on oil.
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PlayStation plus prices going up starting 5/20
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Aressa
You can't die before your death
Price alone is not the issue but the service have been shit for so long now.
Sohurmk833
Member
Same as with any other subscription: people who use them have nobody but themselves to blame.
Getting you hooked and then cranking up the price was the plan from day 1.
Getting you hooked and then cranking up the price was the plan from day 1.
AeonGaidenRaiden
Member
That Marathon tax.
Honey Bunny
Member
Why is this free on opc but so expensive on consoles?
Bojji
Gold Member
They can't pull this shit on pc, that's why. MS tried in 200x and failed spectacularly.
On consoles, they can do whatever they want, users don't have any other options (unlike on PC).
Signalis
Gold Member
Did you now only realise that these corporations see you as nothing more than money? So many people are fooled into thinking these companies give a shit. So many think because PlayStation etc. are their bros. because they post some shitty
cringe shit on twitter etc. These companies want your money, if you don't have money for them, then go get fucked, is their philosophy
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Lucifers Beard
Member
I'm wondering when players are finally going to push back and tell them to fuck off with their wallets. I've always felt that paying to play games online that you have purchased to be ridiculous, even when it was £40 a year for Xbox Live back in the day.
Signalis
Gold Member
If we go by history, we learn that we never learn from history. People will keep paying regardless because that's how dumb we are a species. We are suckers for punishment, large amount of us will even ask for more punishment.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
We are reimbursing them for the Jim Ryan and Jade Raymond's epic flops. All those pointless studios and failed GaaS concepts. Wonderful.
dragonyeuw
Member
I had this discussion with my best friend a few days ago. There can't be another species occupying this planet( at least ones where we can reasonable observe and comprehend their behavior/habits) that does so many things against their collective best interests.
Calverz
Member
I haven't subscribed to ps+ in like 2 years or something.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
MarV0
Member
The feeling is mutual. I will reject a product that I've been purchasing for years from a corporation without thinking twice if a competitor offers a better alternative. I will not give a shit about all the people and their families that depend on that corporation paying their salary.
It's a transactional relationship which why fanboyism is so stupid.
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Signalis
Gold Member
Couldn't have said it better myself
dragonyeuw
Member
That should have always been the case, but these companies lean into the loyalty thing hard to create these super-fan types who self-identify with these brands, who think these mega corporations are your friends. Every single action these entities take, EVERY SINGLE ONE, is rooted in what works in their best interest to continue securing your money.
I guess for me, having grown up a teenager in the 16-bit era where I owned and enjoyed both SNES and Genesis about equally while witnessing idiots get into literal playground fights about which was better, I never bought into the console wars bullshit.
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Inflation my dude. That's what it has to do with it. That stuff spiked inflation even if it appears unrelated it decreases the value of money and everything gets more expensive.
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
So....why would a digital service, with old games......be affected by 'market conditions'? Fuck you Sony!
Cakeboxer
Member
Back then we didn't really have that kind of thing. Some people had Nintendo, some had SEGA. On school trips everyone just had fun together with their Game Boys and Game Gears, there wasn't any of this rivalry mindset.
The first time i really noticed it was during the PS4/Xbox One generation, where people started zooming in 10x on every tree and bush and doing screenshot comparisons just to trash the weaker Xbox. Maybe it already existed before that, but that was the moment I realized what fanboys and console warriors are and how pathetic and annoying they can be.
dragonyeuw
Member
We didn't? We must come from very different regions because the whole 'console war' thing pretty much started with Sega vs Nintendo in the 90s.
DF started zooming in on trees during the PS3/360 era. That was when that shit took off.
DryvBy
Member
Shouldn't be a new customer if you don't want to pay higher prices. Should have always played on PS.
Easy.
diffusionx
Gold Member
Stupid move, they should be lowering the prices.
But Maraflop won't pay for itself
But Maraflop won't pay for itself
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
The perfect meme:
Guardian Monkey
Member
And here we are…
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Marathon Tax, Concord Tax, and Woke Tax.
Hero of Spielberg
Member
What happens when you've got about as much market share as you can and the market doesn't seem to be growing? Figure out new ways to cut your costs and squeeze every last dollar you can out of your customers so you can announce record growth next quarter and the next and the next ...
Guardian Monkey
Member
Marathon Tax, Concord Tax, and Woke Tax.
So if you are buying psplus, you are supporting that? Is that what you are saying?
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Sony is rising prices because GaaS and Woke haven't worked
Guardian Monkey
Member
So not what I posted before you comment from the CFO and maintaining hardware pricing? But to actually support GAAS and woke stuff. Do you not have psplus?
ChorizoPicozo
Member
It's a meme (like the Xbox tax)
People argue PS is rising prices to make up for the money lost due to GaaS and Woke.
Guardian Monkey
Member
So I post what the CFO said early in the year, which has come to fruition and you post a bunch of random Twitter people. Obviously you are right. Well continue supporting your GAAS and woke agenda tax by continuing buying PSPlus then since you say that's what its for.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Uh?
I think you are thinking your post is like the truth or somehting. I'm just saying that "Tax" MEME is just the online discourse to keep mocking Play Station for their falied GaaS initiative and wokeness.... It's negative PR.
Guardian Monkey
Member
It is.
mckmas8808
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laynelane
Member
Considering this price increase only applies to new customers, it comes across as a maneuver to encourage them to buy the annual sub. Then there's the upcoming GTA 6 release which will undoubtedly cause a whole bunch of people to buy the console and subscribe to play online. This will capitalize on those people.
I won't rule out that we're paying for those failures, though - maybe we are with either this or in other ways. It's hard to tell without a look into Sony's decision-making process. Aside from that, it's good to see people speaking up about issues with their games. It's something Sony really needs to hear.
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ChorizoPicozo
Member
That's about it. It's just a way to humiliate the brand
laynelane
Member
I suppose. It's also feedback, though.
Cakeboxer
Member
We really didn't have anything like that. Not with the C64, Amiga, etc. either. Back then, you also weren't flooded with games the way you are today. So we were just happy that different people had different systems. I always thought that was an internet problem where every bored loser runs their mouth.
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
In the 90s It was all about SNES Versus Sega. Most of the kids I would meet or hung with had SNES, but you had a few that were Sega fanatics. I didn't hate for real, but during our childish debates, I shilled hard for Nintendo. Lol. Looking back, Sega was Sega, no matter the system it was, till the Saturn came out, that is...
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Dr Bass
Gold Member
Man my schoolyards had total video game debates over Nintendo and Sega. It was every freakin' day.
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Cakeboxer
Member
Man my schoolyards had total video game debates over Nintendo and Sega. It was every freakin' day.
As I said, I've never experienced it, and I can only imagine it as a childlike, friendly "my dad is better than yours" kind of thing on the playground.
Not some completely pathological behavior where people spend countless hours hating and bashing and comb through the internet for every tiny negative snippet just to post it in the hope of annoying the owners of the other plastic toy.
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dragonyeuw
Member
Am I right in assuming you're from the Uk?( basing that question off the consoles you listed).