Sudenak said:
It used to be really funny. Now it's just pathetic. Completely, and utterly, pathetic.
Sony obviously doesn't give a flying fuck about their user base. They never did, they never will. They have consistently produced good products while pulling bullshit behind the scenes. Well, good if you're into that kinda thing.
But what baffles me is how, even now, people still defend Sony.
I get it, you're a fanboy/girl. But at this point, Sony is not the blameless, helpless victim. It's like they opened a bank, left all of the social security numbers of everyone who signed up with them out on a table somewhere, and stored all of the money in a giant plastic bin behind the counter.
And when they were stolen from, they promised their customers a .02% increase in interest.
And then they were stolen from again.
And still their customers defend them.
Sony has the PR power of a kitten strangler, and yet still, their user base refuses to think that maybe Sony should be blamed a little for this.
Utterly. Baffling.
Well, I see this as one ongoing incident as I explained. Vigilantism is not as awesome IRL as it is on TV or in comic books as we're seeing here, and the fallout is just the inconveinence of a lot of people as opposed to say someone getting hit by a stray bullet.
I blame Sony for provoking this, but at the same time if the hackers keep going it's only a matter of time before the identity theft protection services they are relying on to prevent their outing of information from doing any real damage fail, and people start to actually suffer.
The thing with Sony is that they are a literal godzilla of a corperation, these guys are the inspiration for the Japanacorps of cyberpunk and dark future fame. Renraku from Shadowrun I believe was based directly on Sony. The thing is that Sony has such a fan base because they produce a great product, it's not like it's easy to turn away from their services and find something as good elsewhere since they very much set the standards for a lot of things. They are also involved in things aside from gaming and electronics, right down to movies, and music, and even apparently heavy machinery and military hardware (or well, the components) through some of their subsidiaries.
A guy sitting there with a PS-3 who got a PS-3 because he likes it and the service, is not so keen to just run over and get say an XBox. Likewise those who have grown up with Sony products are going to have a lot of faith in them.
Decades of building a brand name and infrastructure is not something that just goes away overnight, nor does an installed customer base just evaporate when your dealing with something on this scale.
See, blacklisting Sony over the "Other OS" thing wouldn't work, too many people would go "well that sucks" and just keep right on using the services they find conveinent. Things like the PSN attack brought down the service and cost Sony money by preventing the customers from giving it to them. At a certain level simple word of mouth, or a bad experience isn't going to do enough damage for it to matter. A corperate Godzilla like Sony is immune to anything legal, social, or even physical for most practcal purposes, that's why it's such a big deal when something so unstoppable, that people put faith into for being unstoppable (as it gives a sense of security) gets a black eye.
Given it's level of societal penetration even if Sony was going to die, which it won't, there are going to be fanboys holding on until the last monment when the company closes doors on it's last branch.
Plenty of people have written about this kind of thing. It's sort of what guys like Romero were trying to say in their Zombie movies... the mindless, constant shamble of the consumer culture. Even dead the people continue to march relentlessly on to their favorite stores and brands.
Ah well, I'm tired, and this is probably making less sense than usual.
