Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital"

Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Where can I learn more about this. Frankly, I will not just take your word for it.

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  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Search Twitter and Bluesky for official game studio and personal developer accounts. They almost always post about their sales soon after a launch. I don’t have any on hand, sorry. I do remember suckerpunch and insomniac doing so all the time

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    • ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Data from Insomniac Games, leaked last year

      The article you linked makes me think it isn’t quite that easy to find proof.

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• lemmelemmy@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The guy who’s saying this is a controversian, he’s trying to get clicks to his TikTok. He was also opposing stop killing games. He’s not even working in valve more than a decade. So he’s irrelevant but he does make sure to say ex-valve before his title.

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  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I do not even have a tiktok. Who are you talking about?

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    • lemmelemmy@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m talking about the guy who’s saying those stuff not you specifically lol.

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      • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ok, I didn’t think you were. I was saying you don’t need to be influenced by some guy to come to the conclusion that if studios, their devs, (and their leakers, apparently), all agree on something, it’s most likely true

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• DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  releases digital-only game

  “hmm, 0 physical copies sold… looks like people prefer digital”

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• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I believe you, and im sure it’s because I’ve lost passion for just about everything at this point, but if the disk doesnt hold the game what really is the point anymore. If we bought the entire game on hard drive and the console had a hot swappable port so we used them like cartridges that would be great. I shouldn’t need internet access to play a game by myself. But with the current fuckery, the disc just holds part of the game right, and you have to download the rest of the game when you put it in the console.

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  • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can also use that license thatvomes on that disc and transfer it and sell it or trade it to someone else if you choose.

    That choice is being taken away.

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah that makes sense. I wonder if there are people who create accounts for each game they digitally purchase. Then sell the sign in creds when they are done playing. Talk about a giant pain in the ass that would be

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      • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sony and Microsoft’s Xbox will ban you immediately for this but because Steam is a lot more consumer friendly people do sell whole accounts with a game or two tied to them. There’s a site (that’s kind of shady ish so look out for that) that I have used called G2A that you can buy whole steam accounts with games on.

        I think that some of those codes are stolen though or something of that nature but steam doesn’t do anything about it but that is 100% speculation on my part. I thought I heard a dev of a game say something like that one time though that they’d rather you pirate it than buy it off G2A.

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