Former Santa Monica Studio employee Alanah Pearce says Sony has enforced its strictest social media rules after the controversial decision to stop producing physical game discs beginning in 2028.
News of Sony’s decision thrust the physical media debate back into the spotlight, and attention on the situation hasn’t waned since. Sony has continued to post on social media but hasn’t directly addressed the elephant in the room.
Now, Pearce, who also served as a writer on the upcoming God of War: Laufey title, is sharing what she’s heard about the social media guidelines Sony put forth in the wake of the announcement.
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Alanah Pearce Says Sony Tightened Social Media Rules
Alanah Pearce addressed the situation in a recent YouTube video, revealing that Sony was aware of how upset people would be by the news and that those within the company’s first-party development studios have shared that Sony put forth strict social media guidelines for this issue.
“People working at PlayStation first-party studios told me that Sony had the strictest social media guidelines for this particular thing that they’ve ever seen issued. Sony does somewhat regularly tell employees what they can or can’t say about certain things. I was under a lot of guidelines when I was working on God of War: Laufey. I still am, and they did send me guidelines regarding what I could say on the day that the game was announced,” she said. “In this instance, it is apparently the strictest the employees I spoke to have ever seen regarding public communications. They would only have done this if they knew it was going to be an enormous PR issue. This is no surprise to them.“
One of the major releases coming out this year that is also pushing towards the All Digital future is Grand Theft Auto 6. There are currently no plans to release that game physically. Learn more about that here.
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I don’t have any issues with this. People need to realize that the majority of people by digital and really don’t care about physical.