• Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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      I’ve been annoyed since multi-player became a paid service since the ps3, but it’s nice to finally have some validation. Only took 20 years but…

      E: and we can’t forget the rootkit fiasco either

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        Same!

        And yeah, getting 2 free games for compromising all user data, months before they launch PSN plus with rotating free games… Felt odd…

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            No, users were offered 2 (I think?) free games as compensation for the PS3 data breach.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_PlayStation_Network_outage

            On May 16, 2011, Sony announced that two PlayStation 3 games and two PSP games would be offered for free from lists of five and four,† respectively.[75][76] The games available varied by region[75][76] and were only available in countries which had access to the PlayStation Store prior to the outage.[76]

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        You had to pay to play online on Xbox a decade before that. It was free on PlayStation. When they changed it I just stopped playing online.

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      They enshittified long before the PS5 came out. I think it’s been about two decades since the music CD rootkit scandal, for instance.

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      Bit late to the party. They got caught infecting their customers’ machines with rootkits back in 2005.

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        I still cannot believe that no one went to jail over that.

        I mean I can, corporations are only people when it results in a positive outcome for them, but still. A fucking rootkit.