The Humble Homebrew Collection

[Ex-Cyber]

Part of the problem is that the message is ridiculously muddled. It goes from "boycott Sony" to "as a customer, you want homebrew games" (wait; I thought I was boycotting them, and thus not a customer?). The petition message itself goes from requesting "a free SDK and a free method of running and distributing non-commercial applications that can run without restrictions" to lauding the App Store and Xbox Live Indie Games, both of which are non-free and fairly restrictive.

[yoshi314]

btw did anyone else who sent the petition get a response from Sony?

because i did. their answer is as we all would expect it.

for the curious people :

first response from scee_gb (at) mailuk.custhelp.com

TOPIC : Requesting Homebrew support for the Playstation 3 [Incident: 110526-004246]

We are currently very busy and will respond to your email as quickly as possible. We appreciate your patience.

uh, incident? :>

second response from "PlayStation Support <noreply@scee.net>"

Dear PlayStation consumer,

Thank you for your recent email requesting homebrew support for PlayStation 3 systems.

Our policy on this issue has not changed. We are therefore not in a position to fulfil your request.

Thank you again,
The PlayStation Support Team

[gamba]

Tbh, petition + donation are all but waste of money. I'm sure that ECC is controlled by those big corporations. Kinda giving you the impression that you can change something -- fight for your right and such but at the end, IMO, all the money you're donating goes directly to those big corps pocket.

[Covarr]

Dear PlayStation consumer,

Thank you for your recent email requesting homebrew support for PlayStation 3 systems.

Our policy on this issue has not changed. We are therefore not in a position to fulfil your request.

Thank you again,
The PlayStation Support Team

This doesn't even make sense. Basically, they're saying "We can't, because we're not gonna."

*facepalm*

[L0YD]

Im actually surprised that some people was expecting different reaction from sony.

[Ex-Cyber]

This doesn't even make sense. Basically, they're saying "We can't, because we're not gonna."

*facepalm*

I think what they're trying to say is closer to:

[The company's] policy on this issue has not changed. [The support staff is] therefore not in a position to fulfil your request.

I wouldn't be surprised if the people reading those emails aren't even Sony employees.