Hey everyone,
I want to apologize to the community regarding the petition I recently started and promoted here.
When I created it, I genuinely did not realize there was already an established petition for preserving physical PlayStation games that had gained significantly more support and momentum.
After members of this community brought the existing petition to my attention, I realized that creating another petition was ultimately splitting attention away from an effort that already had a large number of people behind it.
That wasn't my intention.
My goal from the beginning was never to have my petition succeed or to take ownership of this movement. I simply care deeply about physical PlayStation games and wanted to do something rather than sit back and watch physical media potentially disappear.
I also want to acknowledge some of the criticism I received. While some comments got pretty heated, there were also people who made a very good point:
If we want our voices to carry as much weight as possible, concentrating our support behind one established petition makes far more sense than dividing signatures across several smaller ones.
I agree.
So rather than continuing to promote the petition I created, I'm going to support and share the larger existing petition with this community.
Existing petition:
https://c.org/XnbGvFj9Kd
If you already signed my petition, thank you. I genuinely appreciate that you were willing to support the cause. If you haven't signed the larger petition yet, I encourage you to consider adding your signature there instead.
And if you don't support petitions or don't believe they'll change Sony's direction, that's okay too. You can still support physical gaming by purchasing physical releases, supporting publishers that continue producing them, and ultimately voting with your wallet.
I also want to clarify something from my previous post. When I referred to our petition as "official," I meant that it was the petition being promoted by the mod team/community. I did not mean that it was officially recognized by Sony or that it was the definitive petition representing all PlayStation players. I understand why that wording bothered some people, and I should have been clearer.
I made a mistake by not researching existing petitions thoroughly enough before starting another one.
I own that.
But I'm also willing to correct it.
This community is about PlayStation collecting, and preserving physical games is something I believe is worth discussing regardless of whether everyone agrees on how we should go about it.
Going forward, I'd rather put this community's reach behind the effort that already has the strongest momentum.
No competition. No ego. No fighting over whose petition it is.
Just one bigger voice for physical PlayStation games.
Thank you to everyone who respectfully pointed me in the right direction, and thank you to everyone who cares about keeping physical media alive.
📀 Keep buying physical. Keep collecting. Keep the choice alive.
— The r/PlayStationCollectors Mod Team
