I also listen to The Doors and watch the dollar trilogy once in a while - music and movies can be timeless too!

And if you can't top the old game, remaster/remake it is!

Game companies realized their mistakes in making some fun games in the past, and now are trying to make sure nobody can play them.

That's also why im a patient gamer, like i really dont care if i cant play the newest games, i could have only played chess my whole life and been happy. So sometimes i wait five years to play a game because it was really expensive at release DRM whatever. Who cares, im still playing games from the 1990s once in a while, ill be fine not paying $80 for the new AAA games on release.

And loud. And fragile.

Thumbdrives have a firmware, you could easily make them read-only. And also add your inconvenient DRM snake oil, if you will.

But no, cloud promises more $$$ through lock-in.

Can you imagine if video game prices were affected by the memory shortages?

But is this not how switch1 games were, just read only sdcards with the game on them.

Yep, DRM is the problem, not the distribution format.

“Please drink verification can”

key codes that get tied to a non-transferable online account have also been a thing for years.

^

I see a whole lot of theoretical "what if platforms did this or that," when GoG is already doing it right. That's the way.

I see no problem with multiple discs tbh, also, we forget that thumbdrivers, sd cards, SSDs etc etc exist...

Exactly. I absolutely agree with OP that robbing people of the choice to own physical media sucks...

But when not paired with shitty-ass DRM, digital format media can be an absolute boon for games preservation. Easy to backup, takes up barely any physical space, and doesn't require physical hardware to play it that will become increasingly sparce and expensive over time.

If the industry doesn't want to provide legal pathways towards games preservation, then it looks like the pirates are going to start wearing archavist hats too.

Also the same reason im never getting pressured into buying a game that's too expensive or just plain DRM ridden.

Remember when Universal Media Discs were not universal and only worked on PSP?

I mean, not always. They mostly did away with bullshit proprietary connectors, did away with their proprietary flash memory cards, and didn't form a walled garden as putrid as that of Apple.

That being said, nothing is the same anymore. Digital everything will take over, because it's just cheaper to not burn disks.

Check GOG

Dynamic pricing is basically enshittification of the modern internet age capitalism as a whole.

Time to go back to barter

Well, consoles are a pretty closed enviroment. There is no piracy as there is on PC, if still some.

A) If you think this is AI generated and are not just making a rage-baiting pun reference, you're a silly billy wittle buddy who needs to be given a raspberry.

B) Games used to not need patching. Even games that were patched later had an on-disc version you could always install and play. And games were in fact better for it. A game going gold meant something, now it's just a release day with a 0 day patch to be even slightly functional.

That's the girl from Pragmata isn't it? Doesn't scream AI to me

Remember the console days before the Internet grew up? No downloads. No Patches. The games just worked.

Fun fact: you can just make the games download the patches later on your computer or use a storage device that is RW and write the patched game on the storage the device the game is shipped on

It's not an AI-generared picture.

Why? What storage do you think works better?

Sony recently announced they'll stop making discs for Playstations in 2028.

Even when Steam delists games, you still have access to it, even after twenty years.

The content you bought? Sony removed your access after a few years.

Oh yeah let's just hate on every store front ever even if they haven't really done something wrong!

If we're not going to reward good behaviour, what are we doing here?? Valve might as well go to shit and fuck everyone for a little more profit if everybody's going to shit on them anyway just for existing.

You have been able to buy steam games on discs but it's up to the publisher to produce those, not valve

Yes they do, because they actually take the care to craft a genuinely awesome user experience. Unlike, I dont know, what seems like literally every other company nowadays

If Sony was selling a backlog going back to 1980 at deep discount with no monthly fees and DRM-free at the seller's discretion, they would get less flak.

I just wander what would be like Steam with Valve bandcamp style physical merch selection. haven't cheched but atleast itch.io wont forbid to put link to their physical merch store?

Don't expect G*mers to be consistent in their opinions.

Lol exactly! "The good billionaire", hypocrites.. I wish people were so determined to protest about healthcare and where their tax money goes.. But mess with their pacifying reality escapism media and they're all pumped.. Not a single word about the environment and microplastics.. I wish this was a psyop of some kind but I guess people are just really dumb.

Oh man, I can't wait to pick up a copy of Project Hail Mary on VHS. I'm sure that will be widely available and easy to purchase

Is a bit wild how they remembered to put down vinyls and even cassettes, but forgot DVDs and VHS tapes which are very arguably bigger household names than Blu-ray.

Also, literally all millenials were born before 2000. And many of them (myself included) grew up with VHS and DVD.

G*mers after killing physical brick and mortar stores by buying digital only for decades.

Gam*rs when the companies keep running servers for DRM checks and digital stores