You may recall, as part of Horizon Forbidden West’s promotional campaign last year, Sony announced plans to plant trees in return for fans unlocking a fairly straightforward Trophy in the open world game. This, part of a partnership with a variety of different charities, aimed to restore and preserve the environment and biodiversity around the world.
Over a year later, it’s shared a trailer detailing its progress so far. Among the headline statistics, the firm has planted approximately 600,000 trees around the world, which has helped restore a whopping 1,800 acres of land. More importantly, alongside the rest of the gaming industry, a whopping 2.5 million trees have been planted across the globe.
Obviously, gaming is all good fun, but it’s important to remember the world we live in must be preserved as best as possible. Sony, to its credit, has made a number of adjustments to its business to make it as environmentally friendly as possible; for example, the PS5 now boasts a number of energy saving features, while all of its products ship in fully recyclable packaging these days.
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I got the trophy 🏆 🌲
But these sorts of things get me a bit. Why not just plant the trees anyway?
Or, maybe they were going to and used the game as a promotion and I'm being cynical.
@MattBoothDev Yes, you are cynical. What you should think is: Why does other MEGA rich companies don't do this. Many companies just send all extra cash to shareholders and owners who like to bank the money.
@Zeke68 And there is nothing wrong with that. It's just how life is. If we were in those positions we would do the same thing.
@MattBoothDev They might have just planted the trees anyway, but doing it this way both plants then AND brings more awareness to the issue. Two birds one stone.
EDIT: and if you want to be cynical, also brings PlayStation some green publicity. Three birds...
Yes bring awareness we need trees to have some good oxygen I'm all for trees 🌳 😊
So they planted trees only in US, Canada, Brazil, UK, Germany, France and New Zealand? Sorry Sony, but it's not around the world. Not even close.
@Drago201 most oxygen comes from the ocean ,but trees are cool
@Mephisto2869 didn't know that but the ocean ain't doing to well either 😅😅
Well as other people have used to word cynical, I'm going to be super cynical, this is basically virtue signalling and will achieve nothing and raise no extra awareness than what people already know and believe. Please Sony spend my game money on making more games I'm bored. And I want another linear game just like Uncharted 2. With nobody moaning it's not realistic if they have to kill 850 people and can shot down helicopters. Whatever happened to escapism. Bring back ps3 games they rocked.
...... Whoops rant over
@Zeke68 the mega rich companies are the ones flying on private jets selling us climate change, and selling the solution. Electric cars? What a joke.
Three hundred tree planters will easily plant this many trees in one day. Don’t get me wrong, it’s something. I just wish there was less marketing trickery into convincing the customer base that they’re doing something for the environment by doing nothing (earning a trophy) than actually motivating them to get out and do something. Regardless, I appreciate the update on this.
@MattBoothDev Corporations are machines designed to generate a profit. If you can harmonize that WITH pro-social and pro-environmental activism, you're in a good spot.
@AnVold and what did YOU do?
It’s a shame that it has to be this marketing thing but I guess it’s something.
Too many of you to reply to big, fair enough, I guess I'm just being cynical. It's a good thing, either way!
@hi_drnick for my country? I pay taxes. But Sony didn't plant even a single tree here.
I love this!!! My wife really loves trees, plants, and just nature overall. When I told her I was planting trees by playing PlayStation, she didn't believe me, but it's true. It's a win-win for us, but also for the planet. I wish more companies would do things like this. Even if they do it for the wrong reasons, such as just for marketing, it's still doing some good unlike most of all the other marketing gimmicks out there.
@Mephisto2869 @Drago201
The key contribution of trees is they absorb carbon right out of the air. They are still responsible for a large portion of the Earth's breathable oxygen, though. The plants in the ocean create about half while plants on land, including trees, create the other half.
@TheCollector316 kool thanks 😊 for the knowledge dude it's nice to actually learn something in a comments section for once
Could they plant more games to?
@devildragon2k23 0 exclusive trees!
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