Why Playstation's All Digital Decision is Devastating
11 days ago by Sunshine (she/her) to c/skg
I buy most of my games on GOG, I don't get disks yet those games are mine, if GOG disappeared tomorrow I would still own them and could still play them (given I keep backups of installers).
I never had a console so I don't know how it works, but if Sony ever decided that to play your disks you need an online connection they control, having disks won't help you at all.
We need to fight the right to ownership, that doesn't depend on having disks.
You can have discs and force Sony to upgrade to GOG level of customer service.
Sony almost never gives out refunds while Steam gives out refunds within 2 hours of gameplay.
The PlayStation store is region-locked you can’t ever change that and Sony deletes your account after 36 months of inactivity.
Publishers can also delete your PlayStation games from your library.
I'm not watching the video, but I'm reasonably confident devastating is a bit of an overreaction. It's the end of an era sure and probably a vast scaling back of their business, but devastating? Nah.
Easing theft from the consumer, murdering the secondhand market and specialised retailers, breaking the trust of partners. Oh yeah, all minor, petty inconveniences. /s
Unfortunately, I'm in the same boat as you. Somehow nobody cares when companies steal from them, but I pick up a mantle ornament and there's suddenly a problem...
It's tripled my desire and rate of piracy, so there's that. You can only control yourself, after all. But making piracy easier for others as a backhanded dig at Sony would make your point equally well. That's where I'm at. Seed and guide your people's selfishness.
Assuming, for a second, I don't have a PC, I shouldn't care that basic consumer rights are being eroded from under us? If I have a PC, I should automatically not care about physical media being killed off, including music, film and TV? Piss-poor take, my friend. Look beyond the tip of your nose.
Jesus wept
That guy seems pretty flakey anyway, not like his old man, that guy was all about dropping plagues on people and making them murder their children. Jesus was all "wah wah stop being mean". There is no way the Sony execs care what a guy like that says or does.
...for lo, there were no physical tables left to scatter
I de-vistaed, skipped 8 and went straight to 10.
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@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Stop Killing Games:
The consumer movement to stop game publishers from intentionally destroying older games with kill switches.
The goal is to reach 1 million signatures in the EU so that the european parliament will respond to the initiative that then leads to regulation that requires end-of-life plans for games to stay playable.
go to feed...
When Sony bans your account, you lose all your digital games.
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