Not only that, but some of the writers for the blogs bounce around from site to site. The way the sites are run, you can comment to any of the blogs with one name, so those attracted by the one blog will bleed into the others. Jezebel is a very feminist blog, and thus attracts the more radical members. The thing is, it is part of a large group of sister blogs, and one of these sister blogs is Jezebel. Kotaku is a blog site that focuses on gaming.
So KotakuInAction is a sub that discusses absurdly stupid comments posted on the blog Kotaku. Perhaps the lawsuit against Sony will fare better in the British legal system.Ĭategories Technology Tags Alex Neill, Apple, Apple Inc.TumblrInAction started the trend of _InAction to be a sub that points out the absurd claims some radical SJWs say on different sites. The court ruled that Apple could not force microtransactions to go through the App Store, but it also stated that Apple was not in violation of antitrust law.īut this lawsuit took place in an American court. Apple had removed Fortnite from its App Store after its publisher had tried to implement its own payment method, circumventing the store’s ability to collect 30 percent on the game’s microtransactions. The last major lawsuit against the 30 percent commission was filed by Epic Games versus Apple. playing God of War Ragnarok on launch is not.
While I’m sympathetic to how inflation makes it difficult for players to afford more games, I’m not sure if I would lump gaming together with a cost of living crisis. “We’re in the midst of a cost of living crisis and the consumer purse is being squeezed like never before,” said Alex Neill, a consumer rights advocate who filed the lawsuit. The plaintiffs point out that gaming is the biggest entertainment industry in the UK, and Sony is hurting consumers who can’t afford their games. Kotaku reached out to the legal team about what it considers to be a reasonable commission fee, but did not get a comment by the time of publication. We’ll have to wait and see whether or not the courts uphold that the PlayStation ecosystem is a monopoly, and whether or not that will have an impact on other walled gardens like app stores or Steam.
Sony is not the only platform that enforces a 30 percent take (most major storefronts do, with the notable exception of the Epic Games Store). The argument here is that Sony has a “ near-monopoly” on the sale of digital games, particularly PlayStation games, and so it shouldn’t be using that power to enforce unreasonable prices on consumers. “It has deployed an anti-competitive strategy which has resulted in excessive prices to customers that are out of all proportion to the costs of Sony providing its services.” Kotaku reached out to Sony for a comment, but did not obtain one by the time of publication. “Sony dominates the digital distribution of PlayStation games and in-game content,” said one of the lawyers leading the lawsuit. This is functionally a class action lawsuit that seeks to distribute billions of dollars to players who have used the PlayStation UK store since August 2016.Īccording to sky news, the lawsuit was filed with the Competition Appeal Tribunal on August 19. A consumer rights advocacy group is suing Sony for charging a 30 percent commission fee on all digital purchases made through the UK PlayStation Store.
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