Sony was never the good guy. None of them are. I’m not sure where this idea that executives and CEOs are on our side just because they tweeted some bullshit that sounded good without details.
The gaming industry is so off the charts right now and rife with corporate corruption that it needs to be regulated PROPERLY by a DEDICATED government entity. It’s a hurt market and is mostly left to the wolves.
That said, Sony has a long track record of being stupid.
Unfortunately, the government was never the good guy, either. It’s meant to be a voice for the people, but it almost never is. We need to become educated enough as an entire population to keep companies in line ourselves, because governments side with corporations more often than not.
Yep. The ESA just straight up lied to the consumer protection committee of the California Assembly, claiming that private Minecraft servers are “Illegal piracy,” and the board bought that shit, hook, line, and sinker.
The government is supposed to be that mechanism, but idiots keep being paid to think that capitalism is best, and the industries should regulate themselves because the pros know better, and that’s totally why lobbying is a good idea and not literally legalized bribery!
The governments suck because we let the bad people get away with their greed, and now they’ve bought their way deep into governments. Governments don’t serve the people solely because good people do not know how to be bad to bad people. … and that greedy fuckhead capitalists are also bad people.
Idk I remember a time when Sony was the least bad guy. Back when ps3 came out, you didn’t need a subscription for online play, and you could actually browse the web (poorly, but, somebody tried. I remember when my laptop shit the bed and I used my ps3 to submit an assignment on blackboard in 2008). I thought that was pretty cool. Not that Sony was good; the profit motive was there, and the second they saw Xbox requiring a subscription for online play, you best believe they built plus overnight. But, there was a time when good people got good ideas snuck past bad company management I guess.
Sony was never the good guy. None of them are. I’m not sure where this idea that executives and CEOs are on our side just because they tweeted some bullshit that sounded good without details.
The gaming industry is so off the charts right now and rife with corporate corruption that it needs to be regulated PROPERLY by a DEDICATED government entity. It’s a hurt market and is mostly left to the wolves.
That said, Sony has a long track record of being stupid.
Not just gaming. All industries.
It’s capitalism. Capitalism is institutionalized greed. These greedy cunts think they’re just being, “good businessmen”.
Unfortunately, the government was never the good guy, either. It’s meant to be a voice for the people, but it almost never is. We need to become educated enough as an entire population to keep companies in line ourselves, because governments side with corporations more often than not.
Yep. The ESA just straight up lied to the consumer protection committee of the California Assembly, claiming that private Minecraft servers are “Illegal piracy,” and the board bought that shit, hook, line, and sinker.
https://www.ign.com/articles/esa-claims-private-minecraft-servers-are-illegal-and-piracy-in-stop-killing-games-hearing
The government is supposed to be that mechanism, but idiots keep being paid to think that capitalism is best, and the industries should regulate themselves because the pros know better, and that’s totally why lobbying is a good idea and not literally legalized bribery!
The governments suck because we let the bad people get away with their greed, and now they’ve bought their way deep into governments. Governments don’t serve the people solely because good people do not know how to be bad to bad people. … and that greedy fuckhead capitalists are also bad people.
Idk I remember a time when Sony was the least bad guy. Back when ps3 came out, you didn’t need a subscription for online play, and you could actually browse the web (poorly, but, somebody tried. I remember when my laptop shit the bed and I used my ps3 to submit an assignment on blackboard in 2008). I thought that was pretty cool. Not that Sony was good; the profit motive was there, and the second they saw Xbox requiring a subscription for online play, you best believe they built plus overnight. But, there was a time when good people got good ideas snuck past bad company management I guess.
Sony included literal viruses with their music CDs in the 90s that exploited your computer when you inserted the disk to disable burning CDs.