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Quote of the day by Gabe Newell: "Piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue" — Sony just proved why digital storefronts are broken (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

There was a reason people bought consoles. One of those was physical media and the fact you actually owned your copy, could resell it and lend it out. So this has nothing to do with Valve who has almost always been digital. If you want to compare it, you'd need a hypothetical like "Valve always sold digital games but will now switch to disk only games."

[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It's why they got rid of memory cards and split screen. More people to buy their own games and systems.