An open letter to Sony board members and shareholders,

Gentlemen, I don't understand why it took all of this to realize that you made a bad business decision, but I do hope that you all learned a valuable lesson. You may have thought that your customer base would forget, but you have a track record of poorly built network security that is still within living memory for many of them. You should treat your customers like elephants in the wild, where you have a Punt Gun with one solitary round of ammunition but you also have an unlimited supply of food to give them. If you choose to feed those elephants, they will return to you frequently and gratefully. Shoot even one of those elephants with that Punt Gun - I can guarantee you they'll all either run away from you or gore you.

In this case, I hope that the goring to your pocketbook in this last fiasco will be a lesson you take with you in not murdering an elephant for a quick dollar's worth of ivory.

EDIT - 11 Aug 2024:

Game just keeps crashing. I don't even know what's causing it at this point. I've verified integrity, I've done a fresh reinstall - literally nothing. I play this game completely vanilla, no modding, no hacks. What is even going on?

An open letter to Sony board members and shareholders, Gentlemen, I don't understand why it took all of this to realize that you made a bad business decision, but I do hope that you all learned a valuable lesson. You may have thought that your customer base would forget, but you have a track record of poorly built network security that is still within living memory for many of them. You should treat your customers like elephants in the wild, where you have a Punt Gun with one solitary round of ammunition but you also have an unlimited supply of food to give them. If you choose to feed those elephants, they will return to you frequently and gratefully. Shoot even one of those elephants with that Punt Gun - I can guarantee you they'll all either run away from you or gore you. In this case, I hope that the goring to your pocketbook in this last fiasco will be a lesson you take with you in not murdering an elephant for a quick dollar's worth of ivory. EDIT - 11 Aug 2024: Game just keeps crashing. I don't even know what's causing it at this point. I've verified integrity, I've done a fresh reinstall - literally nothing. I play this game completely vanilla, no modding, no hacks. What is even going on?