Cool. If thats the case I will no longer be offering Playstation my money for games.
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Play station will no longer be offering games- Yup still no games
I will no longer be offering money to receive playstation games. 🤷♂️
I’d feel more strongly about this if I’d actually bought a game on a physical disc anytime in the last 3 years.
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?
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?
Honestly, if I have to go digital, my money is going to Valve
Better to Gog, atleast you own what you buy
Stop spreading this lie.
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-GOG-User-Agreement?product=gog
2.1 We give you and other GOG users the personal right (known legally as a 'license') to use GOG services and to download, access and/or stream (depending on the content) and use GOG content. This license is for your personal use. We can stop or suspend this license in some situations, which are explained later on.
This refers to downloading, after you donwload the DRM Free Game from Gog there is no license or online check forever, the game is just yours.
You can also do that on Steam, that doesn't make it any less piracy.
Not that there is anything wrong with that, but let's stop pretending that GOG is somehow better than Steam.
Nobody is saying you cannot do on Steam, the big difference is that you can do that on 100% of Gog games, on Steam only on a very small percentage.
And there are other noticeable difference, on Steam you have to go through the file and backup them, on Gog you get the drm free installer for the last version of the game and any previous version that you want.
Is clear to me that on this regard Gog is much better than Steam, would be crazy to say otherwise.
Fun fact: Some Steam games are also DRM-free
If they could be trusted to treat digital copies as actual ownership, this wouldn't be such a big deal.
At this rate why sell hardware to people anymore? Might as well rip the bandaid and make it a cloud-gaming device.
If buying is not owning, piracy is not stealing
This is such a great quote.
But if you read the fine print, you are not buying these games, you are entering into a subscription to them. Paying a one-time fee to subscribe to the games indefinitely. That's why it feels like buying.
That's how they getcha.
So it’s almost like buying is not owning?
Almost, but not exactly.
And look, I'm not saying its defensible, I'm just saying that they technically trick us into subscribing, and thus we can't technically say we're buying these games. So, GOG ❤️
They are gonna remove games in future like they did with the movies
At least the digital-only playstations will be really cheap... Right?
My main problem with this is I can’t sell or trade a digital game after I’m done with it. This needs to be ~~felt~~ delt with legally.
I like being able to share a disc with friends. Or get one from the library. They kill that, they're making a hell of lot of enemies.
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Stop being suckered into the system that has no respect for you or the money they steal from you.
Sony I already didn't intend to buy the next game console, you don't have to keep trying to push me away.
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