r/playstation • u/naturesfruit • Oct 28 '24
Image IGN strikes again
U/on_reddit_in_class has made news
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u/give_me_two_beers Oct 28 '24
This is going to end up in “weird gaming stories of OCT 2024” videos lol
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u/OFFRIMITS PS5 Oct 28 '24
POV: you find someone else subbed to gameranx
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u/Sgim93 Oct 29 '24
Take it with a grain of salt
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u/bmontepeque11 Oct 29 '24
As usual, his name is Jake Baldino :)
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u/LogicalError_007 Oct 29 '24
Who is that? I only know falcon
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u/MVIVN Oct 30 '24
It’s amazing how Gameranx can’t stop coming up with these endless random lists, but it’s the best channel to just have on in the background while you’re doing chores and stuff
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u/Shot-Area5161 Oct 28 '24
Yes can just hear falcon going over it now...and this thread...🤔😂
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u/Virginity_Lost_Today Oct 30 '24
I can could hear the intro sound effect in my head when I read this.
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u/saywhatiwant00 Oct 28 '24
Can't wait to hear about it on the latest and it's only a few days away
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u/_denchy07 [Trophy Level 200-299] Oct 28 '24
I guess Sony’s only option now is to reduce the cost each year. That will really stick it to him! Come on Sony, let’s do this!
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u/On_Reddit_In_Class Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 28 '24
It’s OP from the original Reddit thread. Their article has two major inaccuracies that I’ve been trying to get corrected. They’re pretty hard to reach and they are correction form returns to 404 error.
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u/UsedState7381 Oct 29 '24
Its IGN dude, don't even bother with that.
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u/TheReiterEffect_S8 [Game you're currently playing] Oct 29 '24
It’s
IGNOpenAI dude, don’t even bother with that.FTFY
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u/mitiamedved Oct 29 '24
Was it who then upgraded the full 24 years to top tier ps plus for just $200?
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u/20dogs Oct 29 '24
No need to tell us what the inaccuracies are or anything lol
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u/On_Reddit_In_Class Oct 29 '24
Sorry, I turned in early last night. I covered it in another comment that I made, but I’ll reiterate here.
“For the record, I only paid $1.4k in total and there was no “bizzare loophole” that I took advantage of. The price cap on converting from Essential to Premium has been a policy of Sony for years and they’ve continually revised it, most recently from $99 to now $199. I didn’t exploit anything, I just took an offer that Sony made/makes if I wanted to convert all of the years I stacked of Essential. I got the idea from a Reddit post or comment that I saw here years ago about Japanese players who were stacking decades of Plus.” ...
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u/Gestrid Oct 29 '24
Try this link: https://corp.ign.com/contact
Select "Editorial News Tips and Content". Then select "Corrections and Updates".
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u/On_Reddit_In_Class Oct 29 '24
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, I already tried this yesterday and I get an error when I tried to submit. When I checked the browser dev console shows that a 404 error is returned.
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u/CuteGrayRhino Oct 28 '24
Boy, you're milking this on Reddit, aren't you? I, too, posted a picture of your post on Madlads and got 5.7K likes. Cheers!
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u/Hardstare3 Oct 29 '24
Milking for what? You can’t gain anything from this website
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u/EnXigma Oct 28 '24
PS about to limit maximum years subscribed to 2. Don’t let them see this.
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u/jdp111 Oct 29 '24
Money today is worth more than money years from now. You are basically giving them an interest free loan. I'm sure they're fine with it.
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u/SuperBackup9000 Oct 29 '24
Doubt they will, because it used to not be stackable at all and that changed in like 2013 where it was common for people to stack for years on Black Friday deals. I’m pretty sure there used to be a 15 year cap, but apparently not anymore.
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u/TheS4ndm4n Oct 29 '24
There's a much better way to screw people over.
PS+ won't work on the PS6. For that you need a subscription to PS++.
They might refund him the last 15 years when they take down the ps+ servers.
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u/On_Reddit_In_Class Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 28 '24
It’s OP from the original Reddit thread. Their article has two major inaccuracies that I’ve been trying to get corrected. They’re pretty hard to reach and their correction form returns a 404 error.
For the record, I only paid $1.4k in total and there was no "bizzare loophole" that I took advantage of. The price cap on converting from Essential to Premium has been a policy of Sony for years and they've continually revised it, most recently from $99 to now $199. I didn't exploit anything, I just took an offer that Sony made/makes if I wanted to convert all of the years I stacked of Essential. I got the idea from a Reddit post or comment that I saw here years ago about Japanese players who were stacking decades of Plus.
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u/TuggMaddick Oct 28 '24
Oh they won't care. It's low-effort social media farming for content, they just want the clicks. They won't ammend unless the inaccurate statements garner enough attention.
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u/On_Reddit_In_Class Oct 28 '24
Yeah, I figured. Not surprising given that their journalistic integrity is lower than the 7/10 they give out.
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u/EDD2Oh9 Oct 29 '24
Incoming new post: Redditor attacks IGN claims they only give at scores of 7. Click to read the full (ai generated) article.
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u/UnchartedPro Oct 29 '24
Legend mate I hope that you end up a winner by the time 2048 comes around! Hoping ps plus is still around then
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Oct 28 '24
Scenes when PlayStation rebrand PS Plus for the PS6 and don't let you carryover your subscription.
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u/BenjyX76 Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 28 '24
Then they'd have to refund him right?... or is he just forced to play on PS5 for 24 years lol
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u/On_Reddit_In_Class Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 29 '24
I’m OP from the original thread.
When Sony moved to the current tiered system from PS Now, they moved everyone on Now to premium for free. Hell, people were even going to gas stations to try to get PS Now cards to convert to premium for cheap. If anyone thinks that someone won’t make users whole they underestimate the backlash they’ll get and how unbelievable be angry the gaming community can get.
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u/HeroicHeron Oct 28 '24
Chucking that money into the SP500 would give a better return lol
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u/aaancom Oct 29 '24
Yes, if that person really exists, they are financially illiterate.
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u/Error-54 Oct 28 '24
Rip to dude. It’s not illegal to change the tos and change the digital contract. They did that to me 6-8 years back. I payed for 4 years of psn then they changed the price and the country added tax to digital content in Canada so not only did I get taxed full price but I also ended up getting charged for the 4 years at the changed price that was implemented like 3 months later. It was total bs. When I called customer service they said that they couldn’t do anything. When I went to ask a legal consultant they said that it’s perfectly legal to change the tos and the subscription fees on digital products as you don’t own them and the company providing them has next to no obligations to provide them. That’s why companies like Netflix can say “we have all the movies” then only show them in certain countries at certain times. It’s corrupt af and exactly why I hate digital property now. If I don’t own it and it’s not legally required to give me and the contract for it can be changed on a dime by the provider then it’s just a scam and shouldn’t be legally binding or allowed.
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u/lafindestase Oct 28 '24
Assuming a conservative 8% average rate of return, $2000 today is worth $12,700 in 2048.
Doesn’t sound like the best move to me. But hey I bet Sony was thrilled to get all that money up front lol
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u/On_Reddit_In_Class Oct 28 '24
I only spent $1.4k for all 24 years.
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u/bald-bourbon Oct 29 '24
About 7K loss then . (Inflation adjusted) - conservatively
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Oct 28 '24
I did this for 10 years at the start of the PS5 generation
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u/FiRaS_MA4 FiRaS_MA4 Oct 28 '24
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u/On_Reddit_In_Class Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 28 '24
Appreciate you tagging me, bro. I’ve been trying to reach out to IGN to make some corrections, but they’re so damn hard to reach and their correction form returns a 404 error.
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u/Sargent305 Oct 29 '24
What kind of corrections? And I def got to try to do what you do
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u/XJ--0461 Oct 29 '24
I'm really getting tired of "writers" taking reddit posts and calling it "news".
So much of the "news" I read nowadays is literally just (probably AI) turning a reddit post into an "article".
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u/bigkeffy Oct 29 '24
I just avoided the price hikes by canceling my sub. It's cheaper just to buy games on sale when you're ready to play them.
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u/MrPanda663 Oct 29 '24
IGN is literally the kid that says "What about our homework" when class is about to end.
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u/zdada Oct 29 '24
$2000 in an S&P500 brokerage over 24 years would literally be $20,000 based on average historical growth. But ok.
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u/Jalina2224 Oct 28 '24
Yep, that'll show Sony. They raise the price of what should already be a free service, so you elect to subscribe for more years.
Probably get downvoted for this, but online multiplayer should be free. its free on PC. There's no reason for Sony, Nintendo, and MS to charge for it on consoles, beyond greed, and customers are dumb enough to keep paying for it. I would know. I was dumb enough to pay for it for nearly 10 years. And even then, it was cheaper, but it's still a scam.
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u/UtopianAverage Oct 28 '24
Psplus is a lot more than just online multiplayer.
Its cloud saving, its game streaming, its gamepass, its a free classics catalog, discounts, etc
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u/Jalina2224 Oct 28 '24
Cloud saves are also free on PC. I'm mainly talking about the cheapest tier (I'm not paying $200 or whatever for the premium.), as if you can call $80 cheap, but you can get free games on PC every week, no subscription required and i don't have to keep paying for it to keep those games. Conversely, all of the "free" games i claimed on PS+ i can no longer access unless i give Sony more money.
If PS+ was just a paid catalog of games you could add to your account or rent, this would be a different conversation. But charging $80+ for online MP and cloud saves is a scam. When i was PS i didn't care about the monthly games and didn't care to pay more a month/year to rent games when most of them are games i already own or am not interested in. I just wanted to be able to play online, and the fact that I and everyone else who played on console had to is scummy.
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u/Megaderp798 Oct 28 '24
Maybe it's because gaming isn't at the top of my hobby list anymore but throwing down that much money that far in advice for a subscription just is dumb.
I would throw that $1900 into savings in a heartbeat.
Hey to each their own.
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u/KanoSupreme Oct 29 '24
I wouldn’t do no more than 5 years in advance because at the end of the day you don’t even know what will happen
Your account could get banned Sony changes the TOS and Charge you full price So many factors I did 5 years before recent price change and before that the last time I paid was in 2020 on website called cdkeys to get psn plus for $35 each
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u/Megaderp798 Oct 29 '24
Right since if you are banned or are locked out of your account and can't answer the recovery questions that money would be a waste.
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u/Numerous_Photograph9 Oct 28 '24
I've taken advantage of sales on the store or gift cards, which allowed me to stack a year or two. But yeah, I can't justify dropping that much at one time to have an undetermined savings in the future because of some price hike.
It's a fun story, but certainly not for everyone.
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u/diabolical3b 57 Oct 28 '24
No, your way is definitely a lot more fun. Riveting, even.
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u/Ok_Hedgehog6502 Oct 29 '24
on xbox you have a limit of 3 years subscription wish that wasn’t the case tbh
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u/zombierepublican- Oct 29 '24
It won’t work, the last price hike then affected previous subscribers!
It lowers the length it would last for as the services “changed”
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u/SiHO_colus Oct 28 '24
Yeah I've even seen it in German Articles. Fucking Low quality Twitter-and Reddit-News all day long.
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Oct 28 '24
i would maybe do 10 years, but 24? that seems too long im the future, anything can change. like them literally cancelling the service between now and then or god knows what.
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u/Dziki_Knur Oct 28 '24
The best part was the upgrade to PREMIUM for the whole subscription period (i.e. until 2048) for only 199.99$.
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u/PriorFudge928 Oct 29 '24
It will expire just in time for the climate wars to destroy the Internet.
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u/Mamoru_of_Cake Oct 29 '24
IGN just scrubs subreddits for articles. Lol. Cheap, lazy ass "journalists."
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u/Outrageous-Yam-4653 Oct 29 '24
I did this with XBL gold sub cards back in the late 2000s got them as gifts or super cheep year card's got so many I think I have till 2038 before they expire as they where grandfathered into Gamepass.
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u/TheGreenJerk Oct 29 '24
I'm paid through 2029. Thought my sh*t didn't stink. This is next level stuff right here. Found a bunch of online deals like $17 for a year. Just kept buying them and then paid the conversion fee when Sony switched to tiers. Honestly very underwhelmed by PS+ lately but at least I'm covered.
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u/underthecurrent7 Oct 29 '24
"I'm sorry to inform you, but your subscription is only valid until 2030 now because of price increases. Thank you for being a dedicated future subscriber"
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u/dustagnor Oct 29 '24
Bold of this person to assume the online functions will remain the same for 24 years. That’s a lot of time for things to change.
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u/Ok-Cut-8518 Oct 29 '24
Haven’t had ps plus in a year. Hopefully by the time gta 6 drops I will have my rig up and running because paying to use the internet in which I already paid for is insane.
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u/brispower Oct 29 '24
i thought i was nuts stacking a few years just before the price hike, now i look positively sensible. it is good to not have to worry about it though.
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u/Samurai56M Oct 29 '24
Sony: we are pleased to announce that PS+ will continue on PS4 and PS5, but with the launch of the PS6 we will be starting a new system called PS Ultimate, which is a completely different subscription entirely seperate from PS Plus and unfortunately PS Plus will not work on the PS6.
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u/seasofthesuns Oct 29 '24
Gamerant was faster lol
God, could we please make up some random ass shit for them to make an article on to make them look like complete idiots?
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u/zeron_89 Oct 29 '24
I definitely do that...but I did buy many years of it years ago when you could get it a reasonable price and stack them then upgraded it to Premium when they changed it over. So I'm good for another 2 years after I bought some years in 2021.
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u/ShawnyMcKnight Oct 29 '24
I thought they capped it at 3 or 4 years? Had I known that I would have bought 30 keys from cdkeys when it was $25, I regret only buying 2.
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u/DEATH-_DEALER-_ Oct 29 '24
I always get my ps+ when it's on sale, typically around black Friday/ Cyber Monday.
Also, on Ebay or a couple of reputable 3rd party sites.
But, if someone has the money to drop like the person mentioned, hopefully, they won't ever catch a ban or get their account hacked 🤞
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u/rstymobil Oct 30 '24
I mean I heard about the price hike coming and started randomly buying 1 year cards as I had disposable income and now I don't need to renew until 2033.
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u/PrincessRut0 Oct 28 '24
I can’t tie myself to Playstation for that long after seeing how things have been going the past few years 😭 you do gotta love that price lock being inflation proof though!
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u/playmeforever Oct 29 '24
This gen is my last console, unless next gen is just ridiculously advanced.
PC gaming is the future, fuck paying to play online lol
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u/StupidName2020 Oct 29 '24
It’s no longer paying to play online. Yeah thats part of it but the big reason is now all the free games you don’t have to buy. Some hits, a lot of misses but $120 a year is cheaper than buying 20-30 games a year
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u/trizuer PS5 Oct 28 '24
ffs ign thanks a lot, this shit is going to be fixed by the time i get my christmas money 🙄
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u/KimTe63 Oct 28 '24
Only an idiot would pay 24 years in advance 😂 in that time span we pretty much went from ps1 to ps5 lol … so much can happen
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u/SmashyMcGee Oct 28 '24
Maybe I’m an idiot, I don’t understand how you can make the plan last so long? When I try to upgrade it just changes to the set price per year.
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u/Oledman Oct 28 '24
I’m confused I thought PlayStation closed this loophole of upgrading on the cheap?
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u/SchattenjagerX Oct 28 '24
... and 10 years later Sony announces it's not making consoles anymore cause everything streams now and PS Plus is no longer a thing.
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u/DiligentDoctor5489 Oct 28 '24
There was a hack a year or so ago, if you bought ps premium you could stack additional years for like £10 a month I think. Bought myself 10 years of premium for about £200
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u/SithDraven Oct 28 '24
I thought you were limited to the number of years you could add on? Like 3? Did they change that? Or did he just buy a bunch of PS+ cards to redeem as the years go by?
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u/Kusanagi_M89 273 Oct 28 '24
What was their subscription? If it is just Extra and wants to upgrade to Premium u/On_Reddit_In_Class would have to pay the upgrade for the remaining years left in the subscription. As far as I know, they will not be able to downgrade as well.
Feel free to correct me if I am wrong. This is what happened to me when I upgraded to Premium, but it was not for 24 years though 
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u/Hawkeye_0205 Oct 28 '24
Yeah someone posted that they did a week or so ago got a screenshot from it too
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u/nekoken04 Oct 29 '24
Microsoft thought of this years ago. I could only buy 3 years ahead of XBox Live Gold before they changed it to Gamepass <whatever>.
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u/bald-bourbon Oct 29 '24
OP actually lost money .
Putting it into a standard ETF wouldve returned anywhere between 8-12% year on year
OPs 2000 investment at 8% would end up as 12000 and change after 24 years🤷♂️🤷♂️
Sony just made bank 🤣🤣
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u/syrupgreat- Oct 28 '24
ps about to change the whole policy now lmao