Any other suggestions for things we can do to push back against Sony?
I’m going to not buy the game for a while until they sort out this mess
I suggest you don’t buy it. nProtect + 3rd party account. I made the deal with the devil so I gotta sleep with it.
I’m glad I gave up on live service games with Fallout 76’s disastrous launch. Even the popular ones are just impossibly shitty these days.
I have an extremely clear memory of watching that E3 Fallout 76 conference. I knew it would be a shit show as soon as he mentioned that there were no human NPCs. All the other shit he said about high next-gen detail/graphics just re-enforced the notion.
Bethesda? First time making a multiplayer game and they’re swinging for psuedo-MMO? lol, I’m gonna sit this one out.
Stop buying their products.
Can you also opt out of their frequent data breaches?
File support tickets directly with Arrowhead
File a complaint with your local government body, I believe in Australia it is illegal to break a game after the fact. To substantially change how it runs to hold it hostage.
But even in other jurisdictions, even 1, 000 disgruntled gamers filing small claims against arrowhead would consume an outsized amount of resources to respond to.
Make noise, be disgruntled, don’t play the game, file a negative review, create busy work for the perpetrators. They’re stealing time and money from you, it’s fair to do it to them. But legally
This is more of a Sony decision being forced down on Arrowhead. If anything we should try to direct actions and support tickets against them.
So is this really only opt-out? If yes, that’s against the GDPR, which requires an active consent:
8 CONSENT OBTAINED UNDER DIRECTIVE 95/46/EC
- For example, as the GDPR requires that a controller must be able to demonstrate that valid consent was obtained, all presumed consents of which no references are kept will automatically be below the consent standard of the GDPR and will need to be renewed. Likewise as the GDPR requires a “statement or a clear affirmative action”, all presumed consents that were based on a more implied form of action by the data subject (e.g. a pre-ticked opt-in box) will also not be apt to the GDPR standard of consent.
https://www.edpb.europa.eu/sites/default/files/files/file1/edpb_guidelines_202005_consent_en.pdf
