Same here. Absolutely not getting another video game system. Probably ever. I didn’t have kids so no future gamer coming from me.
The gaming community could all join forces to shut Playstation down if we wanted to. One long-lasting and legitimate boycott of PS online and PS6 doesn’t happen.
It really is an us vs them thing now. There’s zero respect given to the consumer. They believe all people are their addicts who will always push the button to receive their food pellet.
My PS5 hasn’t been turned on for a year. Others will catch on. Reading books has taken over because they’ve become a better experience than turning on a corporate product.
We just need to be honest with ourselves and say no more to corporate products. The video games, the crappy food, bad drive thru coffee, electronics that are all junk, and even our news and information is comes from the same types of places. All of it is crap. Worthless crap and we’ve been spending our lives consumed in it.
Haven’t turned on my PS5 in a year. I’m not some revolutionary. I’m a person who quits a rigged game and I know bullshit when I see it. I don’t argue with myself or sulk. I quit immediately and find something that I’ll enjoy. No one is enjoying their PS5 the way they enjoyed gaming systems in the past.
Getting a system meant something. Now, it’s like a poor financial decision. The hardware is iffy at best and you know you have to hit a wall of subscription requests, ads, filling out forms, giving up personal information…and it never used to be like this. We’d rip open the box, slam a game in, and start playing as a group in the family room.
It’s not the same experience anymore. It hinges on addiction. What was once fun is now a dead social experiment. Look at gaming today vs the 80s and 90s. Depression and online gaming go hand in hand. I never gamed back then because I was depressed. It was fun and we partied over Goldeneye. What we’re experiencing today is harmful to people.
There’s definitely more to this story than we’re all privy to.
Ok. I’ll read a book instead. I haven’t turned my ps5 on in a year. Corpo execs have a mentality problem in that they’ve worthless leeches of people with addictions. I’ll just sell it and probably make all my money back because I have the discs with an overpriced system that continues to go up even though it was released years ago.
I’m a much happier person today. You don’t need these things anymore. Now is the time for humanity to return to common and basic activities. It will help us come back together and solve a lot of our social problems.
They’re doing us all a huge favor by pricing everything out and stealing what little we can afford. Face the music. They’re telling you the thing you paid for is theirs and not yours. It’s time to move on.
Vibe coding is the most overused tech term I’ve ever seen in my life. Stfuuuuuuuuu.
I mean…idc. Let them rise and fall. I’m just not interested in this kind of stuff anymore. We’re still talking about how much this company sucks. I wish we wouldn’t. Even the constant discussions about how bad they are do them a favor. We live in a world where all publicity is good publicity. Sometimes you forget these people even exist if you set your life up the way you want to and don’t get sucked into shit.