The future we are headed towards if we don’t start caring about privacy and where we hand out our data.
Obviously Playstation has their own data, but stuff like this is gonna start being way more obvious in other places because they can so easily buy data on you through data brokers.
Websites you visit saying they share your data? Yes they sell it and it’s directly going to have an effect on other parts of your life just like this.
So you won’t just “pay with your data”, you’ll pay with your money too in a less direct way (prices on other sites shooting up because x website sold your data to y and they know you need this product so they price gouge you).
Not only will this occur for gaming stores or web shops, it can become a thing in banking (maybe they give you a worse interest rate on a loan, etc) and worse.
Credit scores are already how banks discriminate. That system is already in place.
True, but that won’t stop them from acquiring more data so they can squeeze more out of you.
Anything to make them more.
Maybe my examples would’ve been better for other industries, but yeah, I think this will happen everywhere if we don’t stop it.
Get more active, get other people active too, and teach them the importance of it
I know Pokemon Go did something like this as market research. They wanted to see what price would people buy at (in the coins you can earn without money, or buy with money).
Still yucky, so yucky. I would contact them with the screenshot and tell them you will buy it for the lower price on your account.
I would say that I won’t buy it because of this. Let them know they lost a sale.
If you give them money they’ll just keep doing it in the background.
What is the difference in price based on? Are they offering an extra discount due to lack of activity? Just random A/B testing? Demographics?
I remember hearing some time ago that mobile games give you progressively cheap “special deals” to make you buy anything from them, as that makes future purchases way more probable
I imagine it’s similar here - “Oh, you didn’t buy any games recently? But what if they went on sale?”
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
I was going to sell my xbox for a ps5… but no way am I buying into that bullshit.
I only buy nintendo, not much better over here… PC is and always has been king, haven’t even bought the switch2 due to all the bull with not owning anything anymore with it.
I get most of my gametime in on a steamdeck. And I’m sitting the SW2 out entirely. Completely underwhelming.
My wife and I got a switch a few years ago. It was our first console either of us bought that was current and we were both blown away by the sheer cost of games. We’re too spoiled by the sales on PC, so the idea of spending more than $20-30 for a major title is just foreign to us
Yeah, I have a Playstation and wtf…
I wouldn’t buy rockstar products anyways, they are terrible and intentionally break Linux support.
Yeah. Don’t buy rockstar. Just get it through alternative means.
Or don’t get it at all, never played them or felt like it!
(Bad news: I grew up with Nintendo instead)
Naval aquisition.
Been sailing recently?
Microsoft is societal cancer.
Yes.
And I’ve seen “special for you price” on xbox as well.
This is Playstation…
Did he stutter
He was just stating a fact 😅
I’ll never forgive the Japanese.
They’re still not technically wrong.
Plot twist: they are posting this in every thread, regardless of the topic
My age is showing, every plastic box used to be a Nintendo now it’s an Xbox.
what was your first console?
Sega master system.
Of course, everything’s an Xbox!
This is something travel agent websites do too.
If you’re logged out, they’ll show you a price that’s really attractive. But if you log in with an account that’s got some history, they’ll suddenly say that price is no longer available now you need to pay the higher price.
Agoda.com I’m looking at you
I learned, decades ago, that piracy was always the best option
Reminds me of the time I installed a 3d modelling program at work and decided I liked it and pirated it at home.
The work one took weeks of troubleshooting on my own with the instructions followed by email back and forth with support. And the business I worked for had a partner license the whole time. Their DRM involved a dongle in the parallel port and a license server running on the local machine.
At home, I decided one day to use it to make test files for a raytracer I was writing, found it, downloaded it, installed it, and was running it by the end of the night without any of the fancy shit they tried to add to prevent this.
That was when I learned that that pain in the ass DRM was only a pain in the ass for legitimate users and lazy/naive piraters.
I like to actually buy indie games like celeste or scarlet hollow, the devs deserve it
The base game is $60 on the PlayStation store for me 😭
I’m not a huge fan of pirating games, but shit like this gets me there real quick.
Im a big fan, the only way I play new games is by 🏴☠️, if its good I go and buy it on steam or gog. Most the time pirated versions run better anyway since all the DRM is removed.
Determination to install Linux on ps increases.
Instructions too complicated. Ended up with OtherOS on PS3
