Or they completely understand and are ok with it.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
All resistance is futile, unless (the vast majority of) people will not buy it at all. But they, as usual, will do that anyway, no matter what.
Most people seem to not see the longterm implications of things or just don’t understand or care.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Which surely will be the minority. I don’t care either as I don’t like consoles. But I like customer rights.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nah most people understand how digital stuff works compared to physical, since every other media format has already gone through this transition. People know that songs and movies get removed from streaming services and digital stores. People know how it works on steam and mobiles, which have been digital only for years.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Obviously. But steam already killed the used game-market many moons ago. And physical games. I boycotted them for years when they launched, knowing how it would end. And here we are. Physical PC games totally eradicated. Gifting away games I’m done with to poorer people who like to game too? Gone. Buying a semi interesting game for half price used? Nope. All gone. And if you buy a physical box, you get a key and a disc with an outdated installer at best.
Remember doom shareware?
But even I caved in and spend 100k on steam games I will never own. At least they offer a great deal of service around it. As long as gaben lives…
Movies and series I exclusively pirate. Music bandcamp, as I can still own the shit I buy.
TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
There are an estimated 3,600,000,000 active video games players worldwide…
Why does it never occur to anyone in these threads that YOU might just be an insignificant but vocal minority?
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
That was my point. Just revisit this thread in 10yrs and see.
TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
And see what, that no one has physical media and no one cares?
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Yes. That another consumer - right got slashed completely. The poor are forced to just rent houses, apts, cars, appliances and even fucking books and games. I drown in money and see a big cultural problem here, I don’t know why you don’t care. Because YOU can afford it? Or YOU don’t care about owning stuff you paid money for?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The console market has ceded market share to PC over the past few decades specifically because a growing portion of the market sees that it’s cheaper over time. Everyone knows about Steam sales being better than the equivalent on consoles, whether they know it’s because of increased market competition or not. More and more people have shown that they’re doing the math on subscriptions to play online and realizing that it’s not a good deal. When you cut out the physical market and its own methods of keeping purchase prices down, more people still will do the math and decide not to engage.
TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The actual data does not support your conclusion.
weforum.org/…/gaming-games-consels-xbox-play-stat…
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Even in that chart it does. In 2003 (Steam rolls out for the first time), the blue PC portion of the chart is clearly smaller than the green console portion. In 2020, at the end of that graph, PC is bigger than all consoles combined. That’s not shared equally, and there are outliers aplenty, like League of Legends probably making a disproportionate amount of money compared to the rest of PC for several years, but we’ve seen traditional console publishers like Ubisoft and Capcom show that PC is now more often than not the lead platform. In 2011, there had to be a petition to bring Dark Souls to PC when it wasn’t even considered before, and then about 10 years later, Elden Ring on PC outsold both PlayStation versions combined.
TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It’s very clear that PC and Console have remained relatively flat and comparable, while Mobile eats BOTH their lunch. PC has not experienced the runaway capture your intentionally vague wording implies it has…
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Fair points… Guess we will see when the new PS/Xbox hit the market. I hope you’re right…