Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles
mrfriki@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThe problem with discs vs. Never was how much of the game you own or the fact that you can play the same disc 20 years down the road. It boils down to the fact that you can no longer sell the game you own after finishing it.
I don’t think reselling is the big issue to me; just ownership. Some high-guarantee method of both retaining and controlling the product in question, which is often failed by our technical measures and server checks.
I’m fine with digital, even when it prevents reselling. I’m just less fine with it when license holders have the right to say “No, I’m done!” and pull their side of the contract.
yeah but the way they “release” games the disc is just a series of wget requests for patch files and if they take that endpoint down the disc is worthless.
Yes, it’s less than ideal, but still preferable to having NO way to sell or trade a license while the servers are still up. Games are becoming too big to fit on a single Bluray anyway.
true indeed.
Not only selling, but buying, lending or even gifting!
That’s correct, most of my collection on XboX 360 and PS4 comes from second hand games.
Feyd@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Or even just lend it to a friend. When I was a kid everyone in my group would get a different gene and share them. We barely would have been able to play anything if we didn’t share
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
See, this is the real problem. Anybody with an MBA is going to look at your statement and think about all the money they didn’t get because they’re too fucking stupid to realize that you would not have bought more games if you had to buy multiple copies. It’s the same thing with like pirating music they used to talk about how much money they’ve lost, and I used to think no I just wouldn’t have bought that album. So they’ve spent all this time trying to figure out how to chase down dollars they never would’ve gotten to begin with.
Feyd@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Yeah the reality is I would have just read (more) books from the library and played fewer video games