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It’s crazy to see Sony kill their golden goose.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Successful launch and so much good will burned in a few days because of greedy MBAs proposing their "brilliant" profit guaranteed extraction strategy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How are they even making a profit with it? Does the psn account cost money?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Might not end up making Sony any money, but I'm sure an executive is getting a well-deserved bonus off the back of that nice-looking bump in PSN account numbers.

[–] NIB 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It is free. But they can gather data, get you into their ecosystem, hopefully making it more likely you buy a playstation or other playstation published games. Eventually maybe they want to have cross progress between pc and playstation or have playstation achievements on pc, maybe their own steam like client.

Ultimately these countries are probably responsible for less than 5% of their total sales. Most of them are either tiny or poor or both. It does have countries like Egypt, Albania, Serbia, Morocco and Algeria but most of the banned countries are irrelevant in terms of sales.