Comment on GOG when available, but what should I choose between PS5 physical and Steam when not?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 hours agoI don’t think there’s a mechanism for them to tell if you’ve got a license for a disc without putting CD keys in the box. OP only needs them to honor ownership long enough to resell the copy.
rtxn@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
It would be trivial to implement on Sony’s centralised infrastructure, without using unique CD keys. All you need is an account identifier, a game identifier, and a record in Sony’s system that indicates whether the specific account is permitted to start the game with that specific identifier. CD keys could still be used for initially associating the game with the account, but after that, Sony could take full control of the account’s access to the game.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
This would be how a business commits suicide, not to mention upset their retail partners that sell their hardware.
rtxn@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I’d love to believe that, but I’ve lost count of how many businesses were declared by the internet to have committed suicide, only for people to keep buying their stuff.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The type of change you’re talking about would have immediate negative effects on their customers, and they’d never recover from that. Even with more than half of their game sales coming from digital now, they’d immediately alienate the 20-30% that still buy physical, and they need every customer they can get right now as they bleed market share to PC.