Like I said to someone else, if the citizens of the UK chose to vote for shitty politicians, they should blame themselves for voting stupidly and their politicians for enacting stupid policy.
Nobody should blame Sony for obeying the law.
But that’s what people are doing. Because people are fucking stupid.
Ahhh, but that’s just UNACCEPTABLE CORPORATE SHILL BEHAVIOR, according to all these other clowns.
According to these assholes, the only reasonable response is to throw a shit-tossing tantrum, until the children of these particular game developers have all actually starved to death. That’ll teach 'em to mildly inconvenience some people.
Uh-huh. How many is “a lot,” in this context? More than 500? Because the Fortune 500 list of companies only has 500 companies on it.
That means there are 500 CEOs out there, who could make the argument that their time is so valuable that they can’t spare a few seconds of it, to create some free accounts for some shit that they’re using.
Let’s be honest: you’re NOT one of those people. Just shut up and create the free fucking accounts. You’ve already wasted SO much more time, throwing a fucking tantrum over this shit.
using a throwaway email for any accounts you actually use
When I say “throwaway,” I don’t mean “I forgot about it, and I no longer have access to it, and I picked a really stupid name and password.”
I mean: “this is not the same email that I use to do my primary banking and contact my grandmother.”
I have two-factor authentication set up for everything that supports it. I just looked it up, and PSN supports it. Yes, that doesn’t mean it’s immune to being hacked, but my use of a “throwaway” email address doesn’t do ANYTHING to increase the odds of my account being hacked, for anything.
If you won’t admit that, I don’t care to discuss this with you, any further.
Technically true, since I don’t play that game. But I actually understand that the game in question is designed to have a lot of crowd-directed gameplay. If the player-base hollows out, it actually will negatively affect a lot of the people who are playing it.
Lots of people with a sub-3rd-grade reading level, running around on the Web. It’s getting terrifying. Way more so than Sony asking for your email address.
But which of those two things is everyone shitting their pants about?
Who gives a shit? They’re going to get my 0 dollars worth of Playstation Bucks that I’m never going to put in there?
They’re going to play my other PSN games that I have on there? Except I don’t have a single one of those?
They’re going to fuck with my Helldivers 2 account? OH WAIT, THEY CAN’T DO THAT EITHER, BECAUSE THEY’D STILL ALSO NEED TO HAVE ACCESS TO MY STEAM ACCOUNT. The two accounts get linked. You still do all the game shit through Steam.
There is NO RISK, here. The only thing that could possibly happen would be someone spams my throwaway Protonmail account with nonsense spam. And I don’t care about that.
What’s the fucking problem? Like I said to someone else, I have probably made 300 email accounts since 1997, and I’ve probably used them to make ACTUAL TENS OF THOUSANDS of free web accounts, for shit on the internet.
Why would it bother me to make some more? It’s literally part of my culture. What is there to be so fucking mad about?
I will freely admit that it really does suck for Sony to require people in countries that can’t make a PSN account to…just fuck off, I guess?
But I know you WON’T admit that it’s fine for everyone ELSE to just make a throwaway account.
For some reason, you consider 120 seconds of typing an email address into a text box and clicking an activation link to be some kind of ridiculous bar to clear. I just don’t get it. Give them a throwaway email and get on with your fucking life, goddamn.
I’ll be goddamned. Now that I think about it, this must be because of that anti-porn law that you’ve got, over there. They’re somehow applying it to game services, too.
But then, like, don’t blame Sony for following your laws. How is that fair? If you gave your freedom away, that’s your own fault. Sony can’t change what the UK government requires.
EDIT: lol, ask your king to fix it, peasant
EDIT 2: I live in Texas, and they just enacted an anti-porn law, here. I don’t like it. It’s objectively stupid, and won’t protect anyone from anything. But it’s not worded in such a way that you have to present an ID to Sony, to make a gaming account. So, again, your stupid law is your own fault. It’s incredibly dishonest to blame Sony for problems you created for yourselves.
Prove that shit. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY that Sony can demand a photo ID from you. I mean, the Allies fucking won the war with Japan. Did you not get that memo, somehow?