Well, so if enough people protest, they'll refrain from screwing them over... temporarily.
Lame. What I'd hope would be that they admit they were wrong to even try it, and promise not to do anything similar in the future. But that's not what happened.
The PS3 was introduced almost 15 years ago, and new sales stopped almost five years ago. How long do you think they should continue to sell games for it? Why is it "wrong to even try" to stop selling games for obsolete platforms -- and why do you think that will always be wrong?
Servers: Free. Storage space: Free. Network connectivity: Free. Software and database maintenance as they develop the rest of their stack: Free. It is free, all free!
Everybody in the tech industry behaves as though supporting anything for more than 6 months will cost billions of dollars and will bankrupt the operation. If they designed their systems correctly, then the support costs are virtually nothing.
Meanwhile, you always hear stories of that server running in the basement for 20 years that everybody forgot even existed.
The PS3 is 15 years old. That's a long time in the tech industry. In the consumer market, that's damn near forever given how people tend to want the latest and shiniest gadget.
Why are people throwing around the number of 15 years old? Only the first PS3 is 15 years old. They were manufactured until May 2017, so some of the consoles aren't even 4 years old. If you bought a PS3 in 2017 it is not unreasonable to expect that the online store would still be running for a couple more years.
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Well, so if enough people protest, they'll refrain from screwing them over... temporarily.
Lame. What I'd hope would be that they admit they were wrong to even try it, and promise not to do anything similar in the future. But that's not what happened.
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The PS3 was introduced almost 15 years ago, and new sales stopped almost five years ago. How long do you think they should continue to sell games for it? Why is it "wrong to even try" to stop selling games for obsolete platforms -- and why do you think that will always be wrong?
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Because they don't need to stop it, and it doesn't cost them anything to leave it up.
It isn't like they're not longer a game company, or they no longer have webservers running that stuff.
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Servers: Free. Storage space: Free. Network connectivity: Free. Software and database maintenance as they develop the rest of their stack: Free. It is free, all free!
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Everybody in the tech industry behaves as though supporting anything for more than 6 months will cost billions of dollars and will bankrupt the operation. If they designed their systems correctly, then the support costs are virtually nothing.
Meanwhile, you always hear stories of that server running in the basement for 20 years that everybody forgot even existed.
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The PS3 is 15 years old. That's a long time in the tech industry. In the consumer market, that's damn near forever given how people tend to want the latest and shiniest gadget.
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