My name’s Alex and I’m a consumer champion taking legal action against Sony UK.

Sony has been charging their customers too much for PlayStation digital games and in-game content and has unfairly made billions of pounds ripping off loyal gamers.

By charging a 30% commission on every digital game and in-game purchase, we say PlayStation has breached competition law. This means Sony UK could owe up to £5 billion to 8.9 million people, and anyone from the UK could receive £100’s in compensation if they owned a PlayStation console and bought digital games or add-on content via the PlayStation Store from 19 August 2016 to date.

I’m the proposed class representative for this lawsuit because I believe that massive businesses should not abuse their dominance, and Sony is costing millions of people who can't afford it, particularly when we're in the midst of a cost-of- living crisis and the consumer purse is being squeezed like never before.

Ask me anything about the case, and how it could impact UK gamers.

Sign up here to keep up to date with the case: https://playstationyouoweus.co.uk/sign-up/

Proof: Here's my proof!

Hello everyone, thank you for participating in this AMA, I've been answering questions for 3 hours now but I've got to go so will be closing the AMA.

Really appreciate all of the questions and apologies that I couldn't get back to everyone - for any further questions please look at the FAQs here: https://playstationyouoweus.co.uk/faqs/

And if you would like to keep up to date with the lawsuit please do sign-up here: https://playstationyouoweus.co.uk/sign-up/

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lukinho102-1 karma

Could this class-action lawsuit be used in other countries in Europe? I have no idea how this works, but if UK is goong to get compensated, I'm 99% sure the eastern European countries should be as well.

YouOweUsPlaystation-1 karma

The claim has been filed with the United Kingdom Competition Appeal Tribunal and therefore, the claim is for residents in the UK, not Europe as a whole.

We’re aware of similar issues in other countries and we hope by shining a light on this issue in the UK, it will also make Sony change their ways globally.