Not the person you asked, but for me:
- The music CD rootkit
- removing OtherOS from the PlayStation 3
- trying to push various proprietary formats like MemoryStick and MiniDisc
- DRM in ATRAC3
- etc.
Take your pick!
Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 14 hours agoWhat was it that initially sent you down that path?
grue@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Strider@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Trying to only establish proprietary media in the past, mostly ignoring open standards.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Omg their stupid ass 4x normal price proprietary memory sticks lmao
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Ugh God. I remember that “Magic Gate” bullshit when the PSP launched. They started a trend with the Walkman and they’re trying to get lightning to strike twice. Never could do it though. Good.
Those greedy assholes need to engineer and innovate in other areas.
Eldritch@piefed.world 14 hours ago
Steam and PC gaming if anything. That and changing life priorities in my 30s and 40s. GoG and epic too. Between them I have almost 1000 games I didn’t pay for. Combined with hundreds on steam from humble etc. I probably spend more time trying to decide what to play than playing it.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
Valve is also the only company out of these big gaming companies who do lot of Open Source (working on it and funding other projects) and care about Linux. It maybe coincidental, but these care and goals align with my personal interests. No other company in the gaming industry does that to this extend, plus its an open platform. And being a private company brings also lot of freedom to not listen to shareholders.
The only thing is, that Steam itself is not Open Source… and the uncertainty what will happen if one day Gabe will no longer control…
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Preferring a different option is not a boycott of the one