{"id":1187775,"date":"2022-08-23T13:04:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/23\/play-station-sued-over-rip-off-games\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:04:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:04:38","slug":"play-station-sued-over-rip-off-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/23\/play-station-sued-over-rip-off-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Play station sued over rip off games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"390\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Gaming-696x390.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Gaming \/ Credit: GETTY IMAGES\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaming \/ Credit: GETTY IMAGES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sony PlayStation is being sued for \u00a35bn in the UK over allegations it \u201cripped off its customers\u201d with overpriced games and in-game purchases.<\/p>\n<p>The group legal action, led by consumer rights champion Alex Neill, could see almost nine million gamers compensated.<\/p>\n<p>It claims Sony PlayStation breached competition law, imposing unfair terms and conditions on games\u2019 developers and publishers, and driving up prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe game is up,\u201d said Ms Neill. Sony PlayStation has yet to comment.<\/p>\n<p>The claim, filed at the\u00a0Competition Appeal Tribunal, alleges the gaming company abused its position as the market leader to impose terms and conditions on games\u2019 developers and publishers, including a 30% commission on every digital game or in-game purchase made through the online PlayStation Store.<\/p>\n<p>The legal case claims\u00a0Sony PlayStation\u2019s actions have driven up prices for consumers, resulting in customers being \u201cunwittingly overcharged\u201d for digital gaming purchases by up to a total of \u00a35bn over the past six years.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated damages per individual in the claim is said to be between \u00a367 and \u00a3562.<\/p>\n<p>It applies to any customer who has purchased digital games or add-on content on their console or through the PlayStation Store since August 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"h6V7WJBojoY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Curbing Exams Malpractices: WAEC Prosecuting 13 cases of Exams malpractices - Adom TV News (22-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h6V7WJBojoY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaming \/ Credit: GETTY IMAGES Sony PlayStation is being sued for \u00a35bn in the UK over allegations it \u201cripped off its customers\u201d with overpriced games and in-game purchases. The group legal action, led by consumer rights champion Alex Neill, could see almost nine million gamers compensated. It claims Sony PlayStation breached competition law, imposing unfair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1187777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[79,463,8269,2790,3471],"class_list":["post-1187775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-games","tag-play","tag-rip","tag-station","tag-sued"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}