I also bought the disc version, despite predomenantly buying digital releases.
It’s more expensive but not that much more expensive. The difference was in the ballpark 50 bucks or so. On a 500+ euro or so purchase this is peanuts.
I didn’t buy it because I need it for physical games I bought it to have the option.
Focal@pawb.social 5 days ago
I’d argue that that is exactly what you voted for. The option to still have physical media.
You may well have been buying mostly digital games, but you DID buy the console with a disk drive for a reason.
kevinsky@feddit.nl 4 days ago
Somebody might buy a mountain bike, doesn’t make the company they bought it from responsible for supplying a course to use it on.
Focal@pawb.social 4 days ago
Huh? What is this analogy? Doesn’t make sense to me. In this case, your mountain bike provider is the sole provider of courses in the world and is now deciding to get rid of all off-road courses. Only asphalt remains.
kevinsky@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Right, but why would they keep maintenance on these courses going if nobody uses them and only uses their mountainbike to ride to work, over the asphalt? Why not focus on making them better for that instead?
The community at large stopped buying games on disc. Evidently to the point Sony feels confident enough to axe them entirely without too much noise. So far it seems to me they are right, I don’t really see the public outrage you can get with other controversies like the launch state of some games.
And why wouldn’t they honestly, this has been pretty much the reality in the PC landscape since the PS3 era. And yeah, technically on the PC there is “comptetition” in terms of other digital storefronts but it’s mostly the publisher that decide where you buy their game, not you. So in practice it’s highly debateable how much that actually works as proper competition for the consumer.
Sony is now going to have to keep the Playstation interesting to people without offline disc deals, we’ll see how they manage…