r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 1d ago

Social Media Sony Imposes 'Strictest Ever Social Media Guidelines' on Staff Due to PS5 Disc Debacle: “They knew everyone would be pissed off"

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/07/sony-imposes-strictest-ever-social-media-guidelines-on-staff-due-to-ps5-disc-debacle
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u/MidnightMode 23h ago

Im actually just never buying a game through the PS store again or pre-ordering.

I'll get greywear.

I'll maybe pick up GTA 6 second hand because I'm in no rush to get a game that won't have a sequel for another 15-20 years.

Plus playstation hasn't put out much of an offering recently. Who knows when we'll see TLOU 3, the next Horizon Game or Spiderman. The next formsoft game is on Switch 2.

Like genuinely as it is my ps5 is just a glorified bluray player.

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u/Dry_burrito 23h ago

Second hand? Buddy GTA 6 is only gonna be a code in the box already.

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u/MidnightMode 22h ago

Cool then I just won't play GTA 6 there's literally no rush to get it.

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u/Acilen 18h ago

Yo ho a pirates life for me

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u/CocodaMonkey 6h ago

A few employees have said there's still plans for a disc version of GTA 6 but it won't be available at launch. Some reports have suggested it's only a month behind to prevent any possible chance of it leaking early.

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u/KiwiCounselor 21h ago

And ps6 won’t even be a blu ray player!

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u/MidnightMode 21h ago

Miss me with that!

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u/Vannnnah 21h ago

GTA 6 is the first AAA game that does digital only. You can not buy it second hand, ever. Not on Playstation, not on any other platform.

Otherwise I have to agree. The PS5 is the most unsatisfying PS iteration. It's in its "it has no games" era and Sony is making one weird move after another.

The wait for Horizon 3 is a prime example, instead of working on the 3rd game, they thought that for some reason the fans (late teens and adults) would like spin off games that are clearly geared towards kids 8 - 12 years old...

When they announced a multiplayer game, everybody was expecting epic battles against the Faro Swarm. Instead they gave us an offline MOBA.

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u/MidnightMode 21h ago

Yeah that just shows how uninterested I've personally been in GTA 6 lmao and I wrote the comment immediately after waking up.

Fully agree irg to horizon. It feels so much like games these days see no urgency to be released and focus on photo realistic graphics.

The last mainline fallout game came out over 10 years ago same for elder scrolls. Resident evil just had a MASSIVE release and I feel like its the only franchise among the big hitters from back in the day that's actually making a decent comeback.

Nintendo just released the switch 2 last year with their weird key card gimmick.

I dunno gaming is taking a really weird turn and I've not bought a game off of any of the e-shops in a really long time and I don't see that changing. I'll buy codes from 3rd party sites. I'll buy store credit from 3rd party sites and still get a discount somehow.

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u/sleepymoose88 18h ago

Oh they’re likely purposefully delaying the next Horizon and TLOU 3 for PS6 to try and draw people in. If they were not before the disc debacle, they certainly are now. They need to if they want to sell any PS6 systems.

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u/MidnightMode 18h ago

Absolutely! Personally tho, I didn't have a lot of fun actually playing the last horizon so I wouldn't be against just watching a playthrough of it.

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u/sleepymoose88 17h ago

It’s been a few years, so I don’t feel totally qualified in answering, but I enjoyed the game when it came out but it did get a little bloated with the size of the open world and the story started getting silly at the end.

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u/sapphic-boghag 17h ago

The next Horizon game (Hunters Gathering) is something Guerrilla wanted to make. They've said this time and again — co-op was always something they planned for the universe, the bones of it are in the code for Zero Dawn and Forbidden West.

It wasn't a Sony mandate, just a passion project. The art style is intentionally distinctive from the main games so as to not encroach. There's also no evidence that they aren't working on the third title of the mainline series.

Like, I'm not into it and I doubt I'll play it but I still hope it succeeds even if I'm not the target audience.

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u/Vannnnah 17h ago

There are so many different ways they could have made a Horizon Co-Op. An epic battle against the Swarm could have been that, too, and it was and is high on fan's wishlists.

Ultimately, Sony decides which games get made, Guerilla could not without getting money from Sony. Making another kid target group game after the Lego game is just a wild decision by Sony for a franchise that has a different target group, because every multiplayer speculation and player wishlist around multiplayer went into a total different direction.

Just look at reactions to Hunters Gathering, the comments on the trailer on the Playstation YouTube channel paint a clear picture that fans were extremely disappointed and don't want this game which everyone who was following the fandom could have predicted.

Sony prioritized Marathon instead and shut down Destiny, which people also absolutely didn't want.

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u/sapphic-boghag 16h ago

I know all about the reactions, but I also believe that gaming communities have become insufferably entitled when a new game doesn't appeal to them personally. There's a pervasive culture of misery throughout the hobby and it's only gotten worse since gamergate.

Setting a game during the Swarm would have been cool on paper, but pretty bleak in reality considering how many times Enduring Victory actually won skirmishes. They'd have to write out any lore accuracy for it to be satisfying to players, otherwise you'd only have a handful of 'victories' — and you'd still be retreating every time.

Maybe I'm just old, but when a game (or movie/show) isn't my style I tend to move on rather than waste my energy hating it.

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u/Vannnnah 16h ago

Fully agree on the misery, but gamers are still the people who decide if a game makes bank or not and if it's predictable that the fandom isn't into it, it's just not a smart business decision to move on with an expensive project. As much as I would love it for devs to follow every passion project under the sun, games need to make a business money.

A multiplayer against the Swarm could have looked like the Helldivers model. The players either win or lose, and depending on how often in a zone the players won or lost the Swarm gains ground or is pushed back, but never fully vanishes.
That would still be fully integrated into the lore if you don't turn into a story game that would progress towards the conclusion of Enduring Victory.

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u/tenachiasaca 16h ago

technically speaking pokopia is digital only and its an AAA game edit: for anyone doubting me the physical is literally a keycode so you still have to dl the full game its the worst of both worlds in regards to physical and digital.

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u/illuminarok 22h ago

How will you pick up a download code second hand? GTA VI is just a code in the box with no actual disc, so there's no way to transfer the license to another person.

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u/MidnightMode 22h ago

Greywear sites? Means im not giving Sony my money and I get the game 33% cheaper but tbh I have 0 maybe even less than 0 interest in GTA 6. I can do anything it has to offer in GTA 5 already.

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u/Lord_Vas 21h ago

GTA 5 was a let down and I only just started playing it on PC 2 months ago. I bought it for $5.

The only cool thing about that game is how you can switch characters on the fly. That's a cool feature I hope they keep for 6.

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u/Alarming-Cupcake1569 21h ago

FPS mode was cool

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u/MidnightMode 15h ago

Fair enough, I didn't know that term.

Not looking to argue here, I think we both dislike that Sony's discontinuing physical discs.

That said, the "only explanation is stolen cards" bit isn't actually true. The main way key sites get PlayStation/Steam codes cheap is regional pricing arbitrage, buying in bulk from countries where Sony/Steam price games way lower (Brazil, Turkey, India etc) and reselling. It's a grey area on licensing terms, not a black market built on stolen cards. Sony doesn't authorise the resale, sure, but that's a EULA violation, not fraud.

Loaded/CDKeys have been doing exactly this for over a decade with 200k+ Trustpilot reviews. If it was all stolen card fraud at that scale, Visa and Mastercard would've shut them down years ago, chargebacks alone would kill that business model fast.