>Stichting Massaschade & Consument launched a collective lawsuit against Sony over alleged high prices on the PlayStation Store.>The Stop Killing Games initiative supported the Dutch consumer group Stichting Massaschade & Consument lawsuit against Sony following the company's decision to end physical disc production. In a description of a YouTube video, which you can watch below, Stop Killing Games noted that SM&C needs to demonstrate to the court that it genuinely represents gamers rather than simply claiming to, pointing to its global support base as evidence.>SM&C filed a lawsuit against Sony in June, alleging that the company's control over PlayStation Store pricing has led to inflated prices, costing Dutch PlayStation players an estimated €435 million since 2013. Lucia Melcherts, Chair of SM&C, shared before in a statement to Wccftech: "No discs means no second-hand market and no alternative to the PlayStation Store, so from 2028, Sony alone decides what a game costs and even how long you are allowed to use it."https://80.lv/articles/stop-killing-games-supports-dutch-consumer-group-in-lawsuit-against-sony-s-digital-shift
Is /v/'s hatred for Sony greater than its hatred for commies?
>>745555441>commiesmurrifat spotted
>>745555441Seethe, kike.
>>745555172should be unstoppable now that SKG is on board
>it's a monopoly to have control of the content for the console YOU made
Well this kind of bullshit snowball got so big for Microshit xbox that is almost broke now. Sony is next.
>>745556003retard spotted
>>745556479No argument :^)>NOOOO ONLY MCDONALD'S IS ALLOWED TO SELL BIG MACS MONOPOLY REEEEEE
Super gay.Snoy has competition.Xbox, Nintendo, the fucking computer.
>>745555621Nigger
>>745555621Bastard
If a game has a 5-10 year dev cycle I no longer care about it anymore, every game series has become The Dark Tower
Oh my marx this is so heckin euphoric
>>745555621Rapist
>>745557004https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_(2024)I suggest you read it, if a special ed kid like you is able to read at all.
>>745555621Ooh, I bet you look at porn all day
>>745555621>>745557435>>745557454>>745557469Faggots
>>745555621Ass muncher
>>745555621Shitface
sony isnt entitled to sell you disks
>>745557590You're mom isn't entitled to sell disks
>>745555172>is... is that... A COMPANY OPERATING LEGALLY UNDER THE LAW BUT IN A WAY WITH WHICH I DISAGREE!?>AAAAIIIIEEEE!!!! URSULA!!!! KLAUS!!!! SAVE ME!!!!
>posts 30 seconds apartraped kike actually paid for a pass
>>745557659At least my parents love me
>>745557626Ok offer a alternative then faggotLet me install Steam or Epic on the ps5
End your suffering, subhuman /pol/skin.Your best bet is faith in reincarnation. Only then may you become white.
>>745556003>>745557004imagine shilling for a multi billion dollar company
>>745557756I'm sorry that Ukraine lost.Might be time to cut losses.
>>745555172>[WONDERFUL NEWS]Okay, so why do so many /v/ threads have this in the subject line now? Who are you people? [SAD NEWS] this, [GOOD NEWS] that, it's the third thread I've seen today with this exact format in its subject. There are three others in the catalog right now, as a matter of fact.Are these posts botted? Were the schizos right all along?Seriously, who are you people? Go away.
>>745557942They are all made by incels thinking they are news reporters when really they are terrorists
Euro gigachads flexing on sony
>>745557910uh oh, look who's mad!cheer up little fella, it's okay that you were born with a brain deficiency and are just a little bit more stupid than the average human being.and by little bit, I mean a lot. I just didn't want to hurt your feelings.
As much as I hate playstation and want it to die, how the fuck is there even an argument about how the jews at Sony price their shit? Other videogame markets exist, you're not forced to participate in Sony's retarded ecosystem. How could this even remotely be considered monopolistic?
>>745558227Communists
>>745558227>Buy a PS5 in 2020>All your games are tied to Sony's ecosystem>Sonu without warning stops producing games>JUST BUY A DIFFERENT CONSOLE FAGGOTPC had multiple ways lf buying gamesSo does mobileEven Microsoft and Nintendo still allow distribution of physical and 3rd party game key's (Sony stopped that in 2021)In 2028 Sony will be the only way to buy games on PS5, they price fix these games because they can get away with itThey are a monopoly, the very definition They can literally use the same context Epic used in its suit against Apple/Google
Not interested in your child mollester, nor his degenerate scheme for attention. The Division is one of my favorite games. I won't forgive him for the harm he and you did to Ubisoft. Red Storm is gone because of you scum. Such cowards don't belong on v.
>>745555441>Calling the Dutch of all people commiesFuckers pretty much invented capitalism.
>>745557942Its stolen from 2chan
>>745558476Okay so just... don't buy a fucking playstation?
>>745558476epic lost btw
>>745557942>it's the third thread I've seen today with this exact format in its subject.Nigga did you start lurking here last week or something
>>745555172>alleging that the company's control over PlayStation Store pricing has led to inflated prices, costing Dutch PlayStation players an estimated €435 million since 2013.>"No discs means no second-hand market and no alternative to the PlayStation Store, so from 2028, Sony alone decides what a game costs and even how long you are allowed to use it."I wonder if Sony will appeal to the "But Steam" excuse like shills constantly repeated as damage control.
>>745557409>>745557429>>745557465>>745557490>>745557517>>745557540>>745557569>>745557726How can you have fun like this?
>>745559110Anyone that buys digital shit on a console deserves to get scammed.
>Sony is a monopoly!>PC gaming exists>Mobile gaming exists and is arguably a larger economy>Steam exists>Even epic games (lol) existsNothing about calling Sony a monopoly makes any sense. This isn't the case like with Standard oil where competition basically was nonexistent.
theres 0 difference between buying the latest call of duty digitally instead of on disc
>>745555621>>745555172you lost, the EU raped and gaped this reddit movement lol
>>745557942it's tryhard tranimefags trying to force a meme from their epic jap boards
>>745556003This is worse price control than Steam has but you'll call them a monopoly all day
>>745557004>A Big Mac is a single proprietary product. McDonald's has the right to control its own recipe and sell it exclusively.>The lawsuit is not about Sony being the only company allowed to sell Sony-made games (like God of War). The issue is that Sony forces third-party publishers (like EA, Ubisoft, and Activision) to sell their products exclusively through the PlayStation Store, where Sony extracts a 30% fee and artificially inflates prices. If McDonald's banned you from eating any other brand's food inside your own home, it would be a closer comparison.
[EXTREMELY BASED UPLIFTING WHOLESOME EMPOWERING SPINE CHILLING NEWS]I farted
>>745559246Haha! You reacted to my shitpost :3
>>745559527Retardbro, Sony is considered a monopoly in the case of forcing its players, non negotiably, into their ecosystem with zero ability to purchase games for that console (PS6) from places not approved by Sony and at prices only Sony will set.The clearest evidence was the example of a sealed copy of a game on Amazon for PS5 costing $30 and the PSN Store version of that game still being the full price at $60. (I think the game itself was MGSV, but idk)By going discless, your only option is to buy games where, how, and when Sony wants, on a system where they can revoke your game licenses whenever they want (as evidenced by the recent Studio Canal stuff), leaving you approximately zero options as a customer if you want to use their stuff.
>>745562347So just... don't fucking buy it. You aren't being strongarmed into buying a $600 toaster that only plays Sony games, you are intentionally entering into that agreement when a competitor's product exists.
>>745560151>leftoids epic reversal of the meme is just an unwittting admission of not pretending to be too stupid to understand but actually being too stupid to understandLmAo
>>745562598Yes, the option to just tell Sony to eat it and walk away exists. But their main competitor has fucked itself over to the point of near irrelevance (I think PS5 outsold XSX by 30-40%), so if you're a console gamer, you're being forced to either turn into a PC gamer during the most expensive time in history to buy a gaming PC, or you're going to Xbox and dealing with that piece of shit. Sony making this decision now wasn't random, they knew GTA6 and Xbox fucking up were the tailwinds they needed to try to push this and not get abandoned by everyone.The biggest people who get fucked over here are long time Sony gamers that have a long purchase history in the Sony ecosystem, and they're getting put into jail with this 'Fuck you, pay us' attitude going into PS6.And the situation is also unique because I think companies have gotten sued in the past for trying this anti competitive shit.
>>745555172I doubt they'll even get standing
>>745562846You can just keep your Playstation. Your purchase history will remain. You can turn on your PS3 and hit download history right now (and after store closure) and get anything you bought. You don't need a PS6. Or like you said, go to PC. The fact that the "other options" have all these alleged downsides to you seems to paint Playstation as a pretty good option.The Nintendo Switch is also a great console with fantastic games. You have options out there. This is not a monopoly.And you know what, I like Xbox. They may be constantly shooting themselves in the dick on a macro corporate level and miss out on big games with some regularity, but everything from a user perspective works great. And they have lots of little features here and there like quick resume, preload without paying, custom user icons (upon approval), free cloud saves (no PSN required), etc.
>>745563775Playstation isn't the good option so much as it is the only high end console (of two) that hasn't fucked itself over completely.That's not exactly a ringing endorsement.
>>745562598>just buy another $600 machineGreat solution
>>745556003Correct. It's called a vertical monopoly. Something that movie theaters got regulated over back in the day.
>>745556003>Sony should automatically get publishing rights for any third party that wants to develop for PlayStationThis is setting a dangerous precedent
>>745567503it's a closed ecosystem
Big Tech would rally around to defend Sony since even though Sony is a monopoly calling them a monopoly would mean you could sue Amazon for being a monopoly since Amazon Fire and Amazon Kindle only allow you to purchase from Amazon's e-store like Sony's console only allows you to purchase from Sony's e-store. I mean unless you jailbreak them but they'll get bricked if they ever connect to the mothership again after being jailbroke
>>745568191>kindleI remember being able to just manually put .epubs and .pdfs on my kindle through file exploring it when connected to my PC and Amazon never giving a fuck.Playstation is 100% a closed system where the only way to even look at the files on the system is to jailbreak it, so the Kindle isn't a good comparison.
>>745555441>>745555536Foolishness. The most American president in history (Theodore Roosevelt) built his reputation on sticking it to the corpos.Protectionism is not Socialism, but rather the necessary measure to preserve the balance of power between private organizations and the federal government and ensure the tyranny of one will never prevail over the other.
