2 hoursCannot wait until Sony comes out with a study that shows 100% of gamers ( a small handful of people guaranteed not to care about pjydical media ) don’t want it so they can gaslight tge general public into thinking nobody wants it.
Bad take. They’ll give you an install disc and then make you enter an account locked code to access it anyway.
Demand digital rights instead, before a big player goes bust. Because at some point that will happen, and you’ll lose more than a handful of discs.
- plc@feddit.dkEnglish3 hours
The opposite of “digital” is “analogue”. Disks are just as digital as data downloaded from the internet.
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- kalleboo@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
As long as you still have tens of millions of people pre-ordering GTA6, nothing is going to change. People bitch and whine but they keep eating the slop.
DRM is the issue not physical. No drm means I can just keep replicating my product when physical fails
- Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish9 hours
Yeah that’s my problem with it as well. People keep going “but steam does the same thing” but with steam I actually have the install on my computer, a computer which valve does not control and they cannot take things off me after the fact.
- Johanno@feddit.orgEnglish7 hours
Yesnt. Steam can absolutely remote remove your library.
They never did and probably won’t do it. But they could
- Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish3 hours
They can take a game off sale but they can’t take something from me that I’ve already downloaded.
- Johanno@feddit.orgEnglish2 hours
In most European countries yes. They can’t legally. But they can technically.
- Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish14 hours
Yeah the big advantage of disc is Sony can’t randomly take it away. And given the fact that they have literally just done that with a bunch of movies it’s kind of a problem.
It would be trivial to add online only drm with a killswitch to physical media. If that’s the problem, discs aren’t the solution. What we actually need is legal protection for consumers.
- 7101334@lemmy.worldEnglish14 hours
I was already planning to abandon Sony even before they shot themselves in the foot (or leg? groin? time will tell I guess)
I bought the PS5 solely to play one specific game, but I still expected to get some other games. And I’ve gotten a few at least: The Finals is amazing, Baldur’s Gate is amazing, Battlefield 6 is great… and that’s about the end of my list.
The one specific game I bought the PS5 for, No Man’s Sky, has tons of stuff you can do with mods and save editing. Same for Baldur’s Gate as far as mods go. The Finals and BF6 are FPS games so no mods, but still… 100% of the games I like could just be played on PC instead, and 50% are significantly better for doing so.
In the last few generations of consoles / handhelds, Sony has:
- Removed the ability to back your data up via USB as of PS5 (ostensibly because scary ol’ North Korea hacked them, but really because they want to force you to buy PS+)
- Removed the ability to use custom themes as of PS4
- Removed the ability to play online for free as of PS4
- Removed the ability to set a background for your console ffs as of PS5, then gave us like 10% of that back by letting you set a background specifically and only for the screen you see after the console starts
- Jacked up PS+ prices repeatedly and offered like 99% games that I never play again (granted I’m a very picky gamer but still. Shoutout to Jurassic World and some Resident Evils tho)
There’s so many reasons to ditch them even separately from the disc drama
- BritishJ@lemmy.worldEnglish14 hours
Ahh yes, steam renowned for its physical media.
Hopefully it just keeps them using old consoles and punishing them by not buying the digital games.
But we all know everyone will just roll over.
Obviously they mean that in a digital-only world, consoles are not worth it and gamers should just switch to PC.
old games? https://www.romsgames.net/
used to play these free years ago. ymmv
- nevyn@slrpnk.netEnglish13 hours
Sony and Microsoft say bad luck we are doing it anyway, and we know you will still buy our consoles.
- forkDestroyer@infosec.pubEnglish1 day
My backlog is big enough and I’m old enough that I don’t see a need to buy a new game for a long time.
Fight the establishment by getting kids addicted to old games.
- nomy@lemmy.zipEnglish21 hours
Shit man I’m old and would’ve dropped a good chunk of money on a complete, single-player GTA6 physical disk, at launch.
I might’ve even gone and bought a PS5 as crazy as that sounds. I already have a great PC and haven’t gotten a console in a decade but I’ve gotten so much enjoyment from the franchise I’d feel pretty safe buying.
But the lack of a physical disk might actually be the thing that makes me completely reverse my decision. I tolerate it on PC because there are so many indie games it doesn’t really make sense to have a physical copy every time but with a huge AAA title from a proven money hungry powerhouse like R* it’s completely unacceptable. I want to be able to dig that disc out in 20 years and play forgotten games. I want to take my console out into the woods and play the game completely disconnected from the modern world if it suits me.
- 21 hours
I have sold my PS4 after what I felt an unjust price hike for PSN and built a pc, didn’t buy a console since
- Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zipEnglish14 hours
Because of fucking idiots with their meme coins and their AI girlfriends. Every day I feel ten years older.
- CanIFishHere@lemmy.caEnglish17 hours
“I’ll miss buying physical games” is not exactly a measurement of outrage.
- grinning_serpent@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
“Gamers push back.” Just like they pushed back against $70 and $80 games by lining up around the block to buy a Switch 2 so they could buy $70 and $80 games to play on it. Like Rockstar will make a mint selling $100 copies of GTA6.
- Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish9 hours
I suppose if any game is worth $100 it’ll probably be a game from Rockstar. Personally I’m waiting for reviews since there’s literally no point pre-ordering.
This is the song of the world, a ton of angry voices but then the vast majority of them still buy (in both meanings) the thing. People want to be mad but never inconvenienced. They’ll spend so many hours being angry both internally and externally but then still use their vote, be it a political or wallet one, for that specific thing they’re angry about. “I’m mad this costs so much, that it’s so bad, that it doesn’t align with my views but there’s no way in hell I’ll miss out on it”.
Fucking cowards.
- 1 day
Yeah if they aren’t ready we would see GTA 6 flop hard. Personally I’m not getting it until pc release, and even then we’ll see if I have to buy on their shitty launcher.
- THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
I hate Nintendo as much as the next guy, but I’m pretty sure they were the last to adopt $70 games. Then you had Mario Kart World at 80, which is indeed dumb. Not as dumb as shitty yearly sports titles being $70.
- baatliwala@lemmy.worldEnglish19 hours
Lol ask this same question on Tiktok and Instagram it’ll probably swing 71% the other way
- Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish13 hours
No one on those platforms buys games anyway. They’re too busy playing mobile games.
