Yeah i mean, if this is true (and I have no reason to doubt it ) it’s not something I’m looking to defend, but this industry stiffs customers on the regular, and in worse ways than this.
And this is after they have already bought the game. Sony turns around and wants existing players to sign up for something that wasn’t there when they purchased the game.
How about you go buy a car and then a few months later, the manufacturer says you need to sign up for a free account to continue driving said car? You’d be cool with it? You wouldn’t think it was a dick move? Free or not, people are sick of needing accounts to use everything. It’s just another way for making money off our data and another avenue for our information getting leaked (does no one remember Sony’s track record for breaches and leaks??).
Standard behaviour isn't an excuse for shitty practices. If you want the standard to become better, rebel against/boycott entities enforcing that standard.
Once upon a time slavery was standard behaviour. Once upon a time company towns were standard behaviour. Once upon a time, absolute monarchies were standard behaviour. Things got better because people didn't accept the standard and took a stand against it. Not because they dismissed it as the standard.
I'm pointing out that "it's fine because it's the norm" isn't a logical argument by showing how absurd that argument sounds when applied to other things.
Logical arguments are sound even when you use them for other contexts.
When you use quotes, you’re supposed use words that words actually said by someone. Not paraphrase, not your interpretation. So, I suggest mastering the basics, before moving on logical and absurdism.
And when you’ve done that, go and take a long hard stare in the mirror, and ask yourself if you think it’s clever or moral, to invoke slavery as a means to win an argument about a PSN account.
Wasn't trying to use slavery for an emotional appeal, but as an example of a standard that was overturned that I could think of off the top of my head. I realized that there could be some emotions invoked by the slavery example and intentionally tried to think of less emotionally charged examples for my next examples. I used company towns and absolute monarchies instead of the first few things I thought of which were: women's rights, homophobia/transphobia, indentured servitude, apartheid, death sentences. Most famous standards, that everyone would know of, that have changed for the better, are emotionally charged.
This argument chain has been going on for three days and I have better things to do in my life, so I will stop replying to this chain after this.
I would like to jump in and say, I agree with you. All these people with CDPR launchers/accounts, EA launchers/accounts, ubisoft launchers/accounts, xbox game pass accounts, pissed off at the one game that has made every possible attempt to not fuck it's consumers. Probably making these comments from chrome signed into their Google account on their personal computer signed into their Microsoft account. This requirement is beyond Arrowheads control, and it doesn't even require you to install software that wants to run in your tray. Just use a bogus email, sign in in game once and forget about it.