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DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

“I was hoping Lemmy gaming communities would be better than reddit”

Seems like YOU are the minority opinion, eh?

And yes, just like I said before digital only options have always been up to the publisher. Hundreds of games get released on PlayStation without a disc version. No one is forcing shit.

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TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Also my point that you seem to be intentionally missing is that if you buy a game license digitally you get to have it taken away when the company decides they want to and can’t resell it

I have no problem with this. Such is the ephemeral nature of art. If my enjoyment comes from that act of possession and not experience then I should probably collect Funko Pops and not video games.

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- DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yes and that’s why your opinion is minority.
  
  A medium exists right now to avoid that kind of corporate fuckery and its physical discs. Which is why people are upset about it.
  
  When I buy a licesne devs and publishers got paid. No one should be able to take that away from me and once they do I always pirate it so I can keep it forever. I fucking BOUGHT it. (A LICENSE YOU DON’T OWN!!! yes yes you have said).
  
  It would be different if they let you rent it. They don’t want to do that though huh? Why? Its a license either way. The answer is greedy fucks in suits. Not the devs that work their asses off on these games.
  
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  - TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    Yes and that’s why your opinion is minority.
    
    Facts don’t support that assessment.
    
    There are an estimated 3,700,000,000 people on earth who regularly play video games.
    
    What percentage of those people do you think read gaming journalism?
    
    How many engage in video game discourse online?
    
    How many do you think even understand terms like EULA, MTX, always-online, DRM, etc.?
    
    How many do you think care about physical media?
    
    What you are experiencing is combination of false consensus and confirmation bias.
    
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    DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    How do you have the authority to know that my opinion is minority opinion, then? Do you know all of those gamers?
    
    “It isn’t ME that’s wrong, its Lemmy, reddit, twitter, PlayStation blog, Facebook, etc. Was hoping [insert community here] would be different”
    
    I know that the majority of PlayStation gamers don’t support this because they deleted the PlayStation blogpost that they announced this on because of all do the backlash. They’ve been community noted on every tweet they’ve put out for their anti consumer bs.
    
    Community notes on twitter are majority opinion at least on that platform.
    
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