The younger generation, the future customers, do not care for physical media. They’re being raised in an increasingly digital only world. The only ones that care about physical media are the people that grew up with it before digital was a thing, and are stuck in their ways.
Don_alForno@feddit.org 6 days ago
That’s not an argument to take the same choice away from future customers.
We made the choice for mostly digital in a world where physical was still available as a fallback. That’s not the same situation as if it wasn’t. The existence of physical media and a resale market does prevent some of the worst fuckeries of an otherwise monopoly, regardless if you ever bought or sold used games.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Don_alForno@feddit.org 6 days ago
the future customers, do not care for physical media.
You did not understand my comment. They may not care about the physical media, but they will care about the fuckeries a Sony with a total monopoly over playstation games will force on people. Dictating higher prices without even the slightest competition will only be the beginning.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 4 days ago
But they won’t because they’re already used to that on every digital service that they grew up using.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Also Valve is a very different animal to Sony.
Steam has removed (not delisted from the store, removed the libraries of people that owned the game) less than 40 games since inception. Excluding F2P games, Valve has mostly refunded people where a game is outright removed.
Sony has closed 4 music stores in the same period, with no recourse for purchases. They’re removed tens of thousands of movies from PlayStation accounts over the same period, these were ‘purchased’ and then just removed for licensing reasons.
Valve has a level of trust they earned and why Digital only isn’t as much of a problem there, now. It was during the opening years becuase Valve has not earned that trust yet.
Sony has burned people so many times I just consider them not trustworthy in general. any ‘purchase’ on any Sony service is just a 2-3 year lease imo.
rtxn@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Do you have a credible source for that? A while ago someone commented that Valve had promised not to remove any games, but couldn’t support that claim with a source.