Comment on "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy"

• EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You had to put in the disc to play. So you could trade or share your games with others.

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So like 20yrs ago with PCs. Explains the many downloadable PS4 games. Trading was nice, yes. I’m baffled consoleros can still do this. Would’ve bet you were already brought down to our level.

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    • EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I just found out even on PS5s with disc drive there are a lot of single player games that don’t need an initial patch or verification and are playable without being online. But Sony no longer makes this a requirement for publishers as it was with PS4, so more and more games need this. I have PS5 without disc drive, so that’s not an option for me…

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      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        So…you have a driveless ps5 and couldn’t buy any ps5 game if it came on disk? You can only buy the license for your account?

        But making it an option for devs probably means the end of media. Why would they even do that? As a Dev I want you to rent a license not own your shit.

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