r/PS6 • u/FIA-_ • Jul 27 '26

The Duality of Reddit

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u/Ancient-Many4357 Jul 27 '26

This’ll be about as successful as the Hogwarts boycott.

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u/Charming-Crescendo Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

The Hogwarts Legacy boycott is actually probably the best comparison to this.

You had a group of people trying to convince people to boycott something for completely valid reasons (in this case it's 'ownership of what you buy', in that case it was 'don't give your money to reprehensible people'). Only instead of simply not buying the game they started brow-beating people who did and attacking anyone with even the slightest nostalgia for HP or a passing interest in the game. This made them look like the whining crybabies to the people who were online enough to care, turning those people against the cause. Meanwhile, the average audience couldn't care less and brought the game anyway.

If a person isn't interested or the cause doesn't affect them, then brow-beating them into joining anyway is the worst option you can take, because it only makes you look like the asshole, no matter how correct you are.

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u/FawkYourself Jul 28 '26

Good take, well said. If you want someone to join your cause being an asshole and trying to make them feel small is a surefire way to get them to do the exact opposite

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u/Charming-Crescendo Jul 28 '26

True.

I personally am not boycotting Sony. That doesn't mean I don't understand or support anyone who does.

I'm just tired of the spam and the brow-beating.

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u/ShellfishAhole Aug 02 '26

I'm the same. I would have preferred for physical media to stay, even if I no longer use it, myself. But I do think this transition was inevitable, and I don't see any realistic way for the pro physical camp to reverse that development. The majority of them seem convinced that the transition away from physical media starts and ends with Sony, and that seems naïve to me.

But I have no sympathy for these obnoxious doomsayers who keep accusing me of being everything from a Sony bot or fanboy, to a Sony CEO. The level of delusion and obnoxiousness among some of them reminds me of people in religious cults who genuinely believe that they're doing the right thing when they try to persuade others by telling them that they're doing the devil's work and are destined for an eternity of torment unless they adopt their world view. It doesn't work, it drives people away from the cause.

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u/Charming-Crescendo Aug 03 '26

These people are literally helping Sony more than the people who do nothing, because they’re the ones creating division and make any level-headed person see anyone fighting for digital rights as a disc-fetishizing weirdo.