• Neato@ttrpg.network
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    Sony is really desperate for more revenue. To the point they are refusing to sell their products unless they can harvest your data to sell. It’s rather sad. I wonder if they’ll have enough money for the R&D and production for the PS6 or PS5Pro.

    It’s also baffling why Sony doesn’t expand PSN to other countries if they are hindered from selling products due to that.

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      Probably not worth jumping though all the compliance hoops. Meaning it gets pretty risky if you do all sorts of shady shit without having lawyers and compliance people tell you which rules hurt and which are merely a small fine.

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      For every country they expand to, they need a legal expert for that country. It gets expensive quick, and sometimes you just dont expect enough return for the investment.

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      Your data is worthless. They’re trying to justify their platform.

      There is not much reason for the Playstation to continue existing, besides the handful of games Sony paid for. Their AMD laptop is nearly identical to Microsoft’s AMD laptop. The only thing Sony really makes or controls, in that product, is the ecosystem. So they desperately want you to buy into the ecosystem. What Helldivers showed them is how much money they could make being just a PC games publisher, and they do not want to be reduced to that.

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        5 months ago

        My statement is based on the fact that they require a PSN account to play their games on PC now. And if they can’t offer PSN in a country, they aren’t offering the games for sale either. It’s quite literally impossible to avoid a free PSN account if you want to play their games on PC without pirating.