Sony Mass-Bans Russian PlayStation Accounts (pravda.com.ua)
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- News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/05/19/2112252/sony-mass-bans-russian-playstation-accounts
- Source link: https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/05/19/7512924/
> Russians are trying to bypass the blocks and are contacting PlayStation support, but these attempts are to no avail. Users with purchased accounts encounter the most problems -- Sony checks IP addresses for verification. There are already many similar reports. In some cases, accounts with thousands of roubles worth of games purchased have been blocked.
Russian media outlets like RT are [2]reporting the news.
[1] https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/05/19/7512924/
[2] https://russian.rt.com/russia/news/1479721-sony-blokiruyut-rossiiskie-akkaunty
"Sony checks IP addresses for verification" (Score:2)
Sony has never heard of VPNs?
VPNs can only work by VPN having servers available in target countries, like the US or in Europe.
Countries should simply block Russian IPs, thereby preventing VPN access in the process.
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Gaming via VPN sounds like a lag clusterfuck. You could do it, but for real time games, you'd be at a huge disadvantage.
I Say... (Score:1)
I say, Good!
I say, they should have done it much sooner.
I say, the source of this article is a Ukrainian propaganda site and that you shouldn't give it much credence.
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Ukrainska Pravda is not RT, and is not the Russian site Pravda.
It's a Ukrainian News Organization that calls itself "truth". As you can imagine, it's about as straight shooting as pravda.ru.
Parent is correct, and you are a moron.
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And RT is literally quoting [1]This random fucking guy [youtube.com].
Should we see who he was quoting?
If Ukrainska Pravda wrote an article, it's because they figured it had a possible Pro-Ukrainian slant, just as it can be assured that Pravda.ru articles will have a pro-Russian slant.
Grandparent is right, and you're still a moron.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg4eb1u9lp8caKH5tlabiJg
I don't like this (Score:2)
Sony doing something I approve of is very disturbing...
Sony, say goodbye to the Chinese market (Score:2)
Everyone in China have been watching all these sanctions applied to Russia, well aware that one day, the same and worse will be done to them.
Hence the Chinese have been building their own version of everything that used to rely on other countries, most recently being their own PC OS, and the most notably their own chips.
I guess we will be seeing their own gaming console in the next few years, and then Sony can say goodbye to the Chinese market.
Re: Sony, say goodbye to the Chinese market (Score:3)
This is a silly conclusion. A walled garden is the last thing they want in many areas. Instead they want their artistic works to be competitive international. Overall the gaming market in China is low value. They sell ripped games on Taobao and knockoff emulators of many old consoles. They have a few titles that are first class and they want those to sell overseas because they can be sold for 6 to 8x the market value price in China.
China isn't worried you are going to take their vidya games...
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The last time the CCP paid a shit-ton of money to market a game as "first class" it was that giant steaming turd Black Myth Wukong. And then the CCP troll they sent to "get awards" had a hissy fit when it rightly didn't win any.
Re:Sony, say goodbye to the Chinese market (Score:4, Insightful)
The Soviet Union had its own computers too. They were super awesome- if you like piles of shit that were far, far, behind Western computers.
Chinese CPUs are fucking lightyears away from Western parts.
Their OS is a pile of shit- try it, though I bet the one that is a Ubuntu fork is decent, if you don't mind the fact that it's likely rooted to all fuck.
China will definitely have its own game console running on all domestic parts. And it will fucking suck.
They will also have one that kicks ass, but it'll be running Intel or AMD parts with RAM manufactured in Korea, and software that was 99% written everywhere except for China.
It's not even that the Chinese aren't capable engineers. They are. Get them out of that country, and they're brilliant. There's just too much fucking corruption in anything that touches so many of its citizens, and a quasi-communist culture of swindling, cutting corners, and copying rather than innovating.
It's tragic, really.
So ya, it will suck for Sony to lose the Chinese market- but it'll suck for the Chinese even more.
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It's not even that the Chinese aren't capable engineers. They are.
Nah. They're barely competent as copycats. It's why the only way China "competes" on the international market is corporate espionage and IP theft.
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Wrong answer.
Chinese Americans are great contributors to US science.
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"their own gaming console"
A chinese gaming console that is a PC is nothing new...
If they can actually produce exclusive games and hardware worth playing on is something else, but then there is the issue of piracy.
How Brave (Score:1)
When will Sony, a Japanese company, ban US accounts because of funding and supporting of war atrocities in Gaza or the militarily occupation of eastern Syria and intentionally bringing Al-Qaeda terrorist Al-Jolani into power?
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Japan is playing the same balancing act as the US, so precisely never.
I do love the part about Al-Jolani though.
On one hand, murdering civilians bad... but on the other.... murdering civilians.... good? As long as the revolutionary who's going to topple the murderer has former ties to Al Qaeda?
You're the fucking problem. Just as political as everyone else, you've just got a different set of innocents you're ok with dying.
Hmmm... I don't know... (Score:3)
Cutting off all connection points with the Russian population seems like a good way to make bridges more difficult to build in the future. I wonder if turning a blind eye to this wouldn't be a good strategy in the long term.
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They are accomplices. Not victims.
And? (Score:5, Informative)
Maybe Russia's gamers should tell their shit-eating KGB Pedophile President to get his dirty shitass troops out of the Sovereign Nation of Ukraine then. Fucking terrorist warmongering shitass country with an ego problem.
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Sure they could, and then he would have them dig a pit, line them up in front if it and have his troops shoot them in the head just like China or Iran, or Saudi, or anywhere in Africa. Someone would come a few days later with a tractor and push them into the pit and cover it.
You just happen to live in one of the few countries that isn't allowed to happen in or you would already be in the pit.
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Nope. They'd be sent to Urkaine as part of meat assaults. Russia is searching for troops anywhere it can and these type of people would be perfect fodder.
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Here is what I've never understood: if someone is making you dig your own grave at gunpoint, why pick up the shovel?
You're gonna kill me whether I dig a hole or not, so fuck you. Dig it yourself.
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well, you never know when you might get saved by a flood in the valley.
Re: And? (Score:1)
Because you can die quickly by getting a bullet in the head after digging your own grave, or refusal will lead to a slow and torturous death⦠Itâ(TM)s really not that hardâ¦
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> Maybe Russia's gamers should
Russian gamers — similar to most Russians — won't tell Putin any such thing. Not because they're afraid of Putin et al., but because they're in perfect alignment with Putin: they were bred on Russian propaganda and their heads are filled with the glory of Russia. When Putin took his shirt off and rode around on horse back, they all got moist down there and they're still rubbing themselves thinking about it. The fact that Russia can no longer imagine itself as the world power it once pretende
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They are doing quite well. However, there is no Universe where the attrition math ends in Ukraine's favor.
Something to keep in mind while you're banging Ukraine's War Drum for them.
Re:And? (Score:4, Informative)
> there is no Universe where the attrition math ends in Ukraine's favor.
Weren't they saying the same thing about Afghanistan ?
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It wasn't attrition that saved Afghanistan from a perpetual US presence. It was US democracy. Something that is sorely lacking in Russia.
Though I'll grant them- if they can hold off defeat long enough for Putin to die, they may end up alright.
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Are you a fucking moron?
The US withdrew from Afghanistan because it was no longer politically prudent to be there, much like Vietnam.
It's probably the best way a small country can stand up to a large one.
It's not like the US had gone bankrupt, run out of soldiers and materiel, the attrition rate was about 20,000 Taliban per coalition serviceman.
There's no shilling here, but you might actually be legitimately stupid.
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Material-wise, I don't disagree with you in the slightest.
This will come down to meat for the grinder.
And no matter how high the attrition is on the Russian side, the simple fact of the matter is that they have an 11x larger economy and a 3.8x larger population.
And while the Ukrainians have indeed had times where they were kicking absolute ass, the average isn't so great.
Ukraine will be putting guns into the hands of children long before Russia runs out of prisoners (of both the gulag and North Korean c
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I understand the righteous outrage, but is there a lot of difference between the average ruzzkie who voted for putin because he "returned Crimea to the homeland" and the average Amurikhan who chose trump who wants to "return" to the "homeland" pieces of Panama and Greenland?
Re:And? (Score:4, Informative)
lol, the 'murrikan butthurt is so much like the butthurt of a ruzzkie when you ask them why they kept electing putin back when elections mattered.
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> lol, the 'murrikan butthurt is so much like the butthurt of a ruzzkie when you ask them why they kept electing putin back when elections mattered.
America elected trump. I doubt russia has ever "elected" putin.