I’ve been a PlayStation guy since 1998. Looks like the PS5 is my last PlayStation console.
Steam being all digital is fine because I’m buying games for 75-90% off… If I got told I was losing access to a game I played $2.50 for 6 years ago and played for 40 hours I would… actually I’d still be annoyed but less annoyed than losing huggers of dollars.
Steam lets you play games that you bought, even if they’ve been delisted in the meantime.
Steam is the good guy (for now). GOG is even better though, since they let you save offline installers with no DRM.
Yep, Love GOG
So, having a PC is better again, because there is not subscription for online services there…?
I stopped when they fucked me on my PS3, update and lose linux ability or don’t update and lose netflix and any online purchased games.
And that’s were i left console for PC
At least you can jailbreak a PS3 and add back the Other OS feature.
So don’t buy a fucking Playstation.
This isn’t that hard to sort out.
Do not worry, Sony is not at all known for taking away from people digital media which they keep in their servers for those people
/s (just in case)
Cool. If thats the case I will no longer be offering Playstation my money for games.
Play station will no longer be offering games- Yup still no games
I might get a used PS5 to play some exclusives when it can be had for cheap. But I reckon people will cling to theirs.
I think most of those games will still require a big chunk of the game to be downloaded from their servers, which who knows how long will be available.
Happy cake day!
Hadn’t realized it. Thanks!
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I will no longer be offering money to receive playstation games. 🤷♂️
Fair
I’d feel more strongly about this if I’d actually bought a game on a physical disc anytime in the last 3 years.
It should still matter to you, unless you don’t mind paying $80 for every game. The competition of physical game pricing and the secondhand market helps keep digital prices lower as well.
They’re often cheaper on disc. Random sales here and there nearly always undercut the PSN price.
The real reason I’ve not bought many this gen was PS Plus. There’s a lot of games I’d have been vaguely interested in picking up on a decent sale, only they’ve never been on one, and then went on PS Plus so now aren’t worth buying at all.
Realistically the loss of physical discs means we need far more robust digital rights. The right to trade games to other accounts. The right to continue playing them if the store closes, loading games and licence keys from USB etc. That last one is going to need some thought to prevent abuse, but I think it’s essential if we’re going to live in a digital future. On PC that last one could be done by transferring licenses to another store maybe.
3 years? About 15 years for me. Whenever civ 5 was released.
Yeah, but why not? I enjoy having access to the game within the same 10 minutes I buy it…
Now downloading, that’s a different story.
I also enjoy having access to the game as soon as I buy it, that’s why I download. Having to order and wait for shipment or going to the store takes considerably more time.
When was the last time you bought a game on some physical storage and did not have to download etc. things anyway?
OK, but you can sell the disc after using it or share it with friends…
How many modern 3d games are there that fit on a reasonable amount of disks? Don’t you usually have to download shit either way?
Didn’t Nintendo already start doing this with the switch two?
The opposite, with Switch1 there were a bunch of games where third parties cheaped out and just put a code in a box.
Switch2 added game-key cards to replace the code-in-a-box with a license dongle in the shape of a cart.
It still requires the eshop to download the game, but it’s not tied to an account, it’s tied to the card, which can be resold or lent out.
Solves a few of the issues with digital while doing nothing for preservation.
There are still code in a box games, I have one
At this rate why sell hardware to people anymore? Might as well rip the bandaid and make it a cloud-gaming device.
Many people will tolerate digitally distributed games, but not subscriptions
If they could be trusted to treat digital copies as actual ownership, this wouldn’t be such a big deal.
At least the digital-only playstations will be really cheap… Right?
And the games, too, since there are no shipping or packaging costs!
