I thought this was a scheme where you sell it back to Microsoft and they give you a few cents back on it, NOT where you could trade games between other players and that was why it wasn’t received well.
It is not unreasonable to want to own or resell a game I buy I understand that can’t be done on digital only PC storefronts but when the only other option is to buy digital on PC or PlayStation of you have both someone would be crazy to buy it on the one where they have to pay an ongoing subscription (that just increased!) To play it online.
Every single single player game I’ve gotten in the last 5 years have been on discs because I could sell it after I beat it and I was able to do that on Facebook marketplace for no fees and everyone was happy with the price. Now that that is being taken away I will just let my PlayStation collect dust and stop updating it until a jailbreak is available for it so I can copy the game files and actually own them.
I have bought every PlayStation since PS1 and have slowly watched them turn themselves into an anti consumer brand that values the C Suite and shareholders over what players actually want.
They "used metrics Sony Financial Reports
in a misleading way that heavily favors digital dominance. By calculating the digital ratio using total full-game software units—which naturally clumps digital-only indie titles, free-to-play titles, and older games with no active physical printing together with new AAA releases—the resulting percentages look overwhelmingly digital.
That right there, is the opposite of how Sony used to be.
Also no, because the game on disc has the ability to be updated and then it runs just exactly like any other game for the system. This can be a problem when they shut down their servers in 20 years but by that time a jailbreak will be ready to rock and I can update it anyway without their servers just like I do for PS4 and PS3 already.
The entire point, is that you get a game that runs the exact same as a digital download but you can sell it. I’ve basically gotten every single player game for 20-30% off by selling the one I finished before on Facebook marketplace (or if I feel like being robbed of its fair value I could take it to GameStop) and now that will not exist and since its the choice between a shitty digital store that literally JUST TOOK AWAY PEOPLES LEGAL PURCHASES (stole) vs the one that let’s you download games you bought from their servers even after the publishers don’t sell them anymore then its a very easy choice to never fuck with PlayStation ever again.
The only way I can see this working is if they let you trade games to other players in a public like marketplace not where they offer to give you $2 back when you revoke the license back to them like Xbox was trying to do.
TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
This absolutely CAN be done, and again, MS and Sony built the infrastructure to support it. Steam could as well.
Again, you NEVER owned the game, period. Every single game you have ever purchased (even cartridge ones) came with an EULA explicitly stating that the game itself was licensed, not sold, that the studio/publisher had no legal duty to provide access for any specific period of time. You can go look at the games on your shelf RIGHT NOW and confirm this.
Do you have any source for this claim? Because I worked with the products during this timeframe and this is contrary to my understanding and every piece of NDA’d documentation I read.
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Ok so I feel like I have to explain this, I am aware that when you buy something you don’t own the rights to the intellectual property itself.
If I buy a Clive Barker book I don’t get to print it out and sell a million copies, but I can sell that ONE copy that I bought.
The movie thing works like this, I bought it on PlayStation digitally= PlayStation took it away and fucked me.
I buy the DVD from Warner Bros or whatever Sony is involved in and 10 years later when they remove it from stores guess what? I can still watch it or resell it.
I feel like you’re intentionally not trying to understand the difference here.
TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I FULLY understand that you don’t like this. That does not make it morally objectionable or illegal.
Did you read the terms of service when you signed up for the digital movie service? Did you read the terms of sale when you purchased that digital movie? Did both of those things tell you very clearly in plain english that the the owners of the service reserved the right to remove content at their discretion and provided no assurance of ongoing perpetual access? Did you complete the purchase any way? How is this anything but a YOU problem?
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yes I an very aware of all the terms of service it comes with.
Know what I did after watching or playing it? Sold the disc.
My country gives me the legal right to do so. So all the licensing and shit doesn’t mean I couldn’t resell a game disc or DVD/blu ray after I got finished with it.
I know a disc is a license. Thing is, that movie Sony took away? Those games Sony delisted? All of them still work on disc, license or not. All of them can be reself or traded, license or not.
What part of this is untrue?