And I mean, unlike the Hogwarts Legacy situation, this shit has a simple and 100 percent effective remedy.
Sony’s asking for everyone’s email address? Okay. EVERYONE give them throwaway email addresses, and NEVER interact with any of their mailing list garbage, or do anything else with those PSN accounts.
Let them have a huge list of completely worthless email addresses. There is no downside to letting them choke on that shit.
Like I said in another comment, there should be a continued campaign of everyone ALWAYS giving out throwaway email addresses that they never use to do anything other than sign up for the free shit, and nothing else.
Keep that up for long enough, and eventually the value of these bulk lists of email addresses will plummet to functionally zero. And that will mean less corporate nonsense, at least of that kind. And less attempts to hack companies for their email lists. I mean, why commit a federal crime, to obtain worthless data?
There’s a huge back-and-forth going on right now, with people claiming Sony changed the fine print, and so it is bait-and-switch, and it just devolves into absolute fucking nonsense. It’s like on South Park, when the crowd of townspeople are all yelling “RABBLE-RABBLE-RABBLE-RABBLE.”
Screaming is cathartic but doesn’t effect change; you need action for that.
Exactly. And in this case, we can all have our cake and eat it, too. My point about Hogwarts was that people would still have to make a decision about buying it or not. But with Helldivers 2, there’s ABSOLUTELY NO REASON FOR A BOYCOTT.
We all just have to give Sony email addresses that we don’t care about. That will harm Sony’s PR bullshit-artists, while continuing to reward the ACTUAL ARTISTS who made this game.
I mean, I saw people on Reddit talking about how Sony’s response will be to make sure Helldivers 3 never happens. Well, if these people succeed in organizing a boycott of Helldivers 2, that IS TOTALLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN. Do they think Sony will give another dumptruck full of money to this studio, if they know the next game won’t sell?
People are acting like it’s the principle of the thing, because “Sony lied to us.” Even if that’s true, it doesn’t matter. Corporations are always going to lie to you. When the lie is “maybe we technically said we didn’t need you to give us any random email address, but now we’ve decided we do need an email address,” just give them the stupid email address.
Take the win. It will literally cost them money to store that worthless data.
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EXACTLY.
And I mean, unlike the Hogwarts Legacy situation, this shit has a simple and 100 percent effective remedy.
Sony’s asking for everyone’s email address? Okay. EVERYONE give them throwaway email addresses, and NEVER interact with any of their mailing list garbage, or do anything else with those PSN accounts.
Let them have a huge list of completely worthless email addresses. There is no downside to letting them choke on that shit.
Like I said in another comment, there should be a continued campaign of everyone ALWAYS giving out throwaway email addresses that they never use to do anything other than sign up for the free shit, and nothing else.
Keep that up for long enough, and eventually the value of these bulk lists of email addresses will plummet to functionally zero. And that will mean less corporate nonsense, at least of that kind. And less attempts to hack companies for their email lists. I mean, why commit a federal crime, to obtain worthless data?
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There’s a huge back-and-forth going on right now, with people claiming Sony changed the fine print, and so it is bait-and-switch, and it just devolves into absolute fucking nonsense. It’s like on South Park, when the crowd of townspeople are all yelling “RABBLE-RABBLE-RABBLE-RABBLE.”
Exactly. And in this case, we can all have our cake and eat it, too. My point about Hogwarts was that people would still have to make a decision about buying it or not. But with Helldivers 2, there’s ABSOLUTELY NO REASON FOR A BOYCOTT.
We all just have to give Sony email addresses that we don’t care about. That will harm Sony’s PR bullshit-artists, while continuing to reward the ACTUAL ARTISTS who made this game.
I mean, I saw people on Reddit talking about how Sony’s response will be to make sure Helldivers 3 never happens. Well, if these people succeed in organizing a boycott of Helldivers 2, that IS TOTALLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN. Do they think Sony will give another dumptruck full of money to this studio, if they know the next game won’t sell?
People are acting like it’s the principle of the thing, because “Sony lied to us.” Even if that’s true, it doesn’t matter. Corporations are always going to lie to you. When the lie is “maybe we technically said we didn’t need you to give us any random email address, but now we’ve decided we do need an email address,” just give them the stupid email address.
Take the win. It will literally cost them money to store that worthless data.