• Ledivin@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    They’d be stupid to delete progress… that just sounds like it’s a way to guarantee that nobody returns instead of trying to lure them back.

    …but then again, I suppose we’ve learned that business decisions aren’t their strong suit 🤷‍♂️

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      7 months ago

      My original comment was more about a hypothetical scenario, based on previous incidents. Now seeing the response my comment got.

      I hope they do.

      There’s nothing I love more than seeing G*mers throw temper tantrums like the little babies they are.

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      7 months ago

      Why in the hell would they save progress for a player that has refunded the game? You’d have to be delusional to assume that.

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        7 months ago

        Literally the opposite. Why would they ever do that? You are underestimating how easy it is to do nothing, game progress is beyond negligible in terms of storage space. And deleting it would reduce any chance of returning customers.

        Look at it from sony’s PoV, if they did delete saves and then the community becomes less upset next year, why would they want to preemptively prevent people for giving them another chance?

        Not only would it be a terrible business and PR move, there is just no precedent for this type of thing. Do MMO’s delete your characters once you unsub? Or do they just sit tight and wait for you to come back?

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            7 months ago

            Not if you refunded the purchase price of the game. Letting your payment lapse isn’t the same thing….

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          7 months ago

          A subscription-based game is completely different than a one-time purchase that you’ve refunded.

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            7 months ago

            I knew you would say that, but seriously, stop and think about how its literally the same situation. There is no reason that Sony would delete data from a customer that might potentially give them money.

            Especially when the data is probably just a handful of MB.

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              The only way it makes sense is if Sony gets vindictive and opts for scorched earth. It doesn’t make business sense but this is the second time within 6 months Sony have tried taking away content from paying customers by one means or another. They clearly aren’t very good at business these days.

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            7 months ago

            I like how you completely ignored how your entire point of view makes no sense and chose to pick apart an analogy that is perfectly appropriate for the situation

            You must be pretty young, just keep enjoying your days.

            Stay in school and maybe you’ll find out multi-billion dollar companies manage millions of dollars in inventory and data using one analyst manually fixing incomprehensibly large Excel sheets lmao

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                6 months ago

                Here’s a source: literally this scenario - they didn’t delete progress.

                Congrats, you’re the moron!

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                  6 months ago

                  Wow, you came back after all this time, only to show me a discord screenshot that doesn’t actually support your argument. Bahaha you fucking idiot

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                    6 months ago

                    So are you trying to claim that they did delete progress for people that refunded, or do you just not remember what your argument was originally?