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Not voting with your wallet doesn't work? Someone aught to tell Disney that after many people ended their Hulu and Disney+ subscriptions once Kimmel was fired.
Regulation is the answer, full stop.
Whataboutism isn't saving your argument.
Even if it is an answer, is your suggestion to wait for a theoretical solution that hasn't appeared so far and doesn't seem to be on the horizon, to the exclusion of doing anything else?
Idealism isn't strengthening your argument.
How about doing multiple things, you know, just in case, on the very small (^minuscule,^ ^really^) off-chance you happen to be incorrect or even not fully correct ?^[As unlikely as that scenario is , i mean]
Blah blah.
Sony isn't going to do anything unless forced. Public backlash might move things along a bit, but at the end of the day they'll need to be forced to do something by some tough regulations and laws, hopefully out of the EU.
Meanwhile they'll fleece you and all your wallet voters, and if it's not Sony, it'll be everyone else that is doing the same thing.
I don't disagree that there needs to be regulation. I fully agree there needs to be regulation. Companies can and will fuck customers over with little to no concern. See for example the enshitification of pretty much everything.
All I am saying is that there are times when voting with your wallet has successfully bullied companies into complying with the will of the people.
This is true, there are some very very rare occasions where that has worked, but I do not see that Sony or anyone else intent on ripping away the secondary market for games is going to do anything unless they are forced to do so by some strong regulations which dictate that consumers have a right to either physical copies of games they buy, or some alternative method.