Lik-Sang is no more

starshipcommand · Post by **starshipcommand** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:30 pm 0

What annoys me is the hypocrisy of it... they'll gladly take advantage of the global market to get their goods made as cheaply as possible, and then they try to stop us doing the same to obtain their goods, so they can rip us off on pricing etc.

Sure, it's not only Sony doing this sort of thing but it's still shit

Sony can get stuffed.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:31 pm 0

RageMatrix wrote:Sony == Humourless cunts.

Furthermore, Sony have failed to disclose to the London High Court
that not only the world wide gaming community in more than 100
countries relied on Lik-Sang for their gaming needs, but also Sony
Europe's very own top directors repeatedly got their Sony PSP hard or
software imports in nicely packed Lik-Sang parcels with free Lik-Sang
Mugs or Lik-Sang Badge Holders, starting just two days after Japan's
official release, as early as 14th of December 2004 (more than nine
months earlier than the legal action). The list of PSP related Sony
Europe orders reads like the who's who of the videogames industry, and
includes Ray Maguire (Managing Director, Sony Computer Entertainment
Europe Ltd), Alan Duncan (UK Marketing Director, Sony Computer
Entertainment Europe Ltd), Chris Sorrell (Creative Director, Sony
Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd), Rob Parkin (Development Director,
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited), just to name a few.

Hypocritical cunts as well.

George_Bray · Post by **George_Bray** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:31 pm 0

That sux BIG TIME

Orders a T-shirt that says:

"SNOY ARE CNUTS"

Chunk · Post by **Chunk** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:35 pm 0

I was looking to get a USB to snes pad port thingy off them, so I can use a snes pad with an emulator. Not now though.

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:35 pm 0

For us Sony haters this is just another nail in the already seriously shut coffin. I've ordered plenty of cheap gadgets and DS accessories from Lik-Sang in the past...they will be sorely missed

But just for the record, has Nintendo ever done anything similar?

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:37 pm 0

Marius wrote:For us Sony haters this is just another nail in the already seriously shut coffin. I've ordered plenty of cheap gadgets and DS accessories from Lik-Sang in the past...they will be sorely missed

But just for the record, has Nintendo ever done anything similar?

Probably in the eighties somewhen, yeah.

t0ne · Post by **t0ne** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:38 pm 0

What a bunch of cunts.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:42 pm 0

matt wrote:Sad news, but let's not forget we can still buy import from http://www.yesasia.com (guaranteed customs duty free) or http://www.play-asia.com

PlayAsia stopped selling PSP games to Europe months ago, also following threatened action from Sony.

I posted this at WotR but I felt it bore repeating here too...

Now Mr Sony, please tell me here, and excuse me for being a little mystified... why bother touting the PS3 as a region free gaming experience if you are going to prevent people from importing your hardware? Not only that, but clamping down on people importing the games as well (witness PlayAsia not selling PSP titles to Europe). Isn't the whole thing just a little bit of an oxymoron? After all, if the PS3 is being proposed as playing games from any region, then why are you doing your best to stop us acquiring them from another region? Or do you actually WANT us to visit the country in question to buy the product instead of sitting in our nice homes and clicking on the computer, safely away from any marauding attacks by Giant Enemy Crabs?

Frankly Nintendo used to be a little draconian in their tactics to stop people from importing, but that was nothing compared to what's currently going on. So much for the free market economy and worldwide markets, "you can have any game you want as long as it's sold in your country" I can hear them cry in your offices.

Personally I only have one response: FUCK YOU. Do you actually want to encourage piracy here? Think about it. Mod your console and download ISOs from the net, burn the discs yourself and stick them in the machine. Sure it might be trickier for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD coming out, but burners for both will come across soon enough. How do you think so many people "acquire" their games currently? Where possible I will want to actually buy an original, you know, give some money to the hard working grunts who produced the code instead of getting it for free. By restricting people from getting the real thing with their hard earned money, you're only telling them that it doesn't matter what we the consumers want, it only matters what you want to give us. And in today's market that's becoming less of an issue. Consumers are slowly becoming more savvy regarding what's out there. There are many examples of games getting worldwide fame despite only being released in Japan (I think Ouendan actually sold MORE outside of Japan than inside!).

Personally your actions are most likely going to be similar to those actions against file sharing networks. You might take one down, but another will spring up in its place. You can't stop it, and it is arrogant to think that you can. If you do somehow manage to even stop people on eBay shipping your games abroad, then Satan may skate to work the next day. I hope that never comes to pass, but I'm sure you might already be thinking of trying that, not just stopping people selling their PS3 pre-orders.

In conclusion, by this action, you may find a lot more people are suddenly going to turn their backs on you...

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:42 pm 0

Marius wrote: But just for the record, has Nintendo ever done anything similar?

Yep, fluffy happy Nintendo also have a legal department. The horror.

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4193.cfm

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:44 pm 0

Yeah, no company has a completely checker-free past - Ninty included. But I don't think they'd do something like this today. It's different putting region locking in a console, or not supporting other region's warranties (even though this really fucks me off). But to sue the importers, even when they make it QUITE CLEAR that the product is imported, now that's a special kind of evil.

If all my cards hadn't been stolen, I'd now be the owner of fuck-sony.com ...

Cheers

Bubba

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:46 pm 0

Rod_S wrote:
Marius wrote: But just for the record, has Nintendo ever done anything similar?
Yep, fluffy happy Nintendo also have a legal department. The horror.

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4193.cfm

Yeah, but all their subpoenas come with a free chocolate and toy

Duck Turkin · Post by **Duck Turkin** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:54 pm 0

Marius wrote:For us Sony haters this is just another nail in the already seriously shut coffin. I've ordered plenty of cheap gadgets and DS accessories from Lik-Sang in the past...they will be sorely missed

But just for the record, has Nintendo ever done anything similar?

Of course.

Here they are threatening cancer researchers (admittedly gene names did get stupid, but still):
http://news.com.com/Pokemon+USA+threat+ ... 01323.html

Here they don't want a game being imported:
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003A ... 019771.htm

nor did they like this game being imported either:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/08/01 ... r_advance/

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:55 pm 0

hmz..flash carts seems quite a different issue.

While Flash cards and such can be used for homebrew, most were, indeed, used for easy piracy. (yes, this is assumed guilt, which is also wrong, but its more understandable, imo).
This has help cause the DS Homebrew community to now be quite strongly anti-piracy. So far, Nintendo hasnt seem to do much, if anything, against it.

Theres not even potential piracy going on in what sonys going against.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:56 pm 0

Rod_S wrote:
Marius wrote: But just for the record, has Nintendo ever done anything similar?
Yep, fluffy happy Nintendo also have a legal department. The horror.

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4193.cfm

That article is slightly different (dealing purely with an alleged piracy device), but yeah, no companies are angels.

Ducki · Post by **Ducki** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:56 pm 0

starshipcommand wrote:What annoys me is the hypocrisy of it... they'll gladly take advantage of the global market to get their goods made as cheaply as possible, and then they try to stop us doing the same to obtain their goods, so they can rip us off on pricing etc.

Quite. And all that pap about shutting them down to protect us, the customers. What a load of bollards.

I was looking forward to getting a PS3 but won't be getting one any more. Sony can get stuffed.