Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos

Auth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It gives them excuse to shut down their servers if they can point to these.

  I’m pretty sure they already shut down all their servers. They refunded everyone and try to forget the game ever happened.

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• derpgon@programming.dev ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh it’s never about that. You can’t milk a game that lives for free. Although they pay for publicity (ads, etc.), getting it for free means less cash flow, means less numbers on quarterly earnings, means less investor money.

  It is always about the number on their bank account, never about you, me, or anyone else. They don’t give a flying fuck, they’d happily let us burn in a house fire if it meant just a teensy bit more dollars.

  Fuck Sony, Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, ActiBlizzosoft, and the rest of them.

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  • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Blame the suits, they got into the video game business once Atari became a household word.

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• Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Its bad press for them. The whole game is BSD news for them all the way around. I bet the won’t ever mention it by name again.

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• Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It all comes down to Japanese peoples’ bizarre beliefs. They see modding their games as a shameful behavior because they compare it to theft/plagiarism. It’s the same reason why Nintendo is so god damn evil. In their eyes they’re doing the honorable thing by suing their own customer base.

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  • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They see modding their games as a shameful behavior

    They also think modding is a form of cheating, as in supposedly breaking the game mechanics, forgetting that some games are good visually but have awful difficulty or needing more immersion.

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