What is the overhead on physical sales ?
The expenses that disappear when Sony moves to digital, without changing the sale price.
I wouldn't be surprised if Sony can lose more than that 20% of customers and still see a significant profit increase.
The DOJ abbandons its case the moment the defense asks for the grand jury transcripts. The moment it looks like the defense might be able to pierce grand jury secrecy and see something the DOJ are trying to hide.
Just like the Broadview Six case. Dismissing the charges there didn't stop the judge from looking deeper and seeing what the DOJ were trying to hide. Hopefully the same happens here.
That is missing the point of my question. The way I see it, you can only boycott something you would have bought if it wasn't for whatever the company did to cause the boycott.
For example, I can't boycott Sony here because I don't game on Playstation. I already wasn't buying anything from them.
It gets murkier when the thing people are angry about makes the product bad. Imagine a chocolate company that changed their recipe to make their chocolate a lot worse. So you switch to buying chocolate from a competitor. Are you really boycotting the first company ?
Or just spending your money on a better product ?
If the PS6 goes discless, every company that wants their game on the PS6 to grab a piece of its market share will go discless as well.
If they are currently releasing on PC, they have already shown what they think of digital distribution.
If they are owned by Sony, it will be Sony who decides for them.
If you remove any company in the above two groups, who do you have left ?
I was thinking more about the Modern Warfare 2 "boycott". Which can be summed up with a single image:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/a40ji/modern_warfare_2_boycott_fail/
We aren't going to be talking about a small profit increase here.
Not when Sony gets to remove all the overheads of physical distribution without changing the sale price.
Sony has sold 93.7 million PS5s.
345,000 people have taken the easy step of signing a petition. If they all take part in this blackout, will Sony notice ?
German courts have ruled that AI companies are liable for the falsehoods their AIs produce. While here the FTC seems to be demanding falsehoods.
The AI companies will have to choose who they satisfy and who they go to court to fight.
No warrant. A refusal to let them talk to his lawyer.
They weren't acting legally. If you were in Mr Tunick’s position, how far would you be worried about them going to get the passcode out of you ?
The duress code is the one defense he had against rubber-hose cryptanalysis.
I'll have mixed feelings if that is what gets the charges thrown out.
Instead, I want to see it thrown out for the illegal actions of CBP. When they refused to let him talk to his lawyer, that should be grounds for a layperson to think they aren't up to anything lawful.
We only need the merger to be blocked in one jurisdiction that has the power to block it for it to be killed worldwide.
So I'm hoping that it takes long enough to reach SCOTUS that the deal dies from taking too long.
So the standard TOS BS leads to a temporary loss until the user hits agree. That's going to depend on how well you think the TOS agreement forced upon after purchase you will hold up in court.
Fair point on cheat detection.
Valve changing ownership might be a problem. That's why I want to know of other stores on PC removing purchased games. Someone is bound to have tried it, how well it went for them tells us how risky it would be for a major store to copy them.
Though I do have my doubts about how many of the 20% will avoid the next Playstation.
Some will because their internet can't handle downloading games. Beyond that, video games have a history of people being vocal about boycotting something then buying it anyway.
I'm not aware of Steam removing purchased games from users libraries, other than cases where the servers were shut down or the purchase involved fraud. Or any other PC storefront.
I'm not sure why that is. Maybe because digital distribution on PC has competition, while consoles lock users into the console companies store.
Games forcing OS updates is odd when the OS could force them instead.
The only time I can see it being useful for a game to force the OS update is if the console company wants to push it to consoles that normally stay disconnected from the internet. Which, from memory, is how Sony killed the ability to install Linux onto the PS3.
What is the overhead on physical sales ? The expenses that disappear when Sony moves to digital, without changing the sale price. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony can lose more than that 20% of customers and still see a significant profit increase.
The DOJ abbandons its case the moment the defense asks for the grand jury transcripts. The moment it looks like the defense might be able to pierce grand jury secrecy and see something the DOJ are trying to hide. Just like the Broadview Six case. Dismissing the charges there didn't stop the judge from looking deeper and seeing what the DOJ were trying to hide. Hopefully the same happens here.
From memory, that didn't help the broadview six prosecutors avoid consequences for their misconduct before the grand jury.
That is missing the point of my question. The way I see it, you can only boycott something you would have bought if it wasn't for whatever the company did to cause the boycott. For example, I can't boycott Sony here because I don't game on Playstation. I already wasn't buying anything from them. It gets murkier when the thing people are angry about makes the product bad. Imagine a chocolate company that changed their recipe to make their chocolate a lot worse. So you switch to buying chocolate from a competitor. Are you really boycotting the first company ? Or just spending your money on a better product ?
Could you link us a source for that claim ?
When it comes to EA, is it really a boycott if you're refusing to spend money on a bad product/service ?
I was thinking more about the Modern Warfare 2 "boycott". Which can be summed up with a single image: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/a40ji/modern_warfare_2_boycott_fail/
We aren't going to be talking about a small profit increase here. Not when Sony gets to remove all the overheads of physical distribution without changing the sale price.
Sony has sold 93.7 million PS5s. 345,000 people have taken the easy step of signing a petition. If they all take part in this blackout, will Sony notice ?
German courts have ruled that AI companies are liable for the falsehoods their AIs produce. While here the FTC seems to be demanding falsehoods. The AI companies will have to choose who they satisfy and who they go to court to fight.
No warrant. A refusal to let them talk to his lawyer. They weren't acting legally. If you were in Mr Tunick’s position, how far would you be worried about them going to get the passcode out of you ? The duress code is the one defense he had against rubber-hose cryptanalysis.
I'll have mixed feelings if that is what gets the charges thrown out. Instead, I want to see it thrown out for the illegal actions of CBP. When they refused to let him talk to his lawyer, that should be grounds for a layperson to think they aren't up to anything lawful.
We only need the merger to be blocked in one jurisdiction that has the power to block it for it to be killed worldwide. So I'm hoping that it takes long enough to reach SCOTUS that the deal dies from taking too long.
It sounds like he wants more sewage to swim in.
Yes. I remember the screenshot of the Modern Warfare 2 boycott.
So the standard TOS BS leads to a temporary loss until the user hits agree. That's going to depend on how well you think the TOS agreement forced upon after purchase you will hold up in court. Fair point on cheat detection. Valve changing ownership might be a problem. That's why I want to know of other stores on PC removing purchased games. Someone is bound to have tried it, how well it went for them tells us how risky it would be for a major store to copy them.
Though I do have my doubts about how many of the 20% will avoid the next Playstation. Some will because their internet can't handle downloading games. Beyond that, video games have a history of people being vocal about boycotting something then buying it anyway.
I'm not aware of Steam removing purchased games from users libraries, other than cases where the servers were shut down or the purchase involved fraud. Or any other PC storefront. I'm not sure why that is. Maybe because digital distribution on PC has competition, while consoles lock users into the console companies store.
Games forcing OS updates is odd when the OS could force them instead. The only time I can see it being useful for a game to force the OS update is if the console company wants to push it to consoles that normally stay disconnected from the internet. Which, from memory, is how Sony killed the ability to install Linux onto the PS3.