Are you under the impression that Sony wants to come into your house and destroy all you old discs?
This example is still a false equivalency, no matter how many times you and others use it…when you purchase a digital license for a piece of software, you are not buying the canvas. You are buying a ticket to an exhibition.
That exhibition requires electricity, security, and ongoing staff labor to keep the building open. When the gallery can no longer afford the operating costs to pay that staff, they close the doors. They aren’t “burning” the art, the event is simply over. You are throwing a philosophical tantrum because you think your one-time ticket purchase means the gallery is legally obligated to stay open and pay its workers to maintain the exhibit for the rest of your life.
To your other point, I own every game console every created, from the Magnavox Odyssey to the PS5 Pro. I use all of them at various points, and engage with mobile and web-based gaming. I’ve been doing this for a LONG time and there are HUNDREDS of games I have played, adored, and will never be able to experience again and that is not only perfectly acceptable, it is beautiful.
Art. Is. Ephemeral.
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Nope. I know this is hard for you to understand but I am suggesting that if someone sells their artwork, and you buy it, you should be allowed to own THAT COPY (yeah yeah its a licesnse you can make an entire paragraph about that again if you want to).
You said yourself that you think its ok if companies take a copy of something you have bought away from you and that is why you are unable to understand what everyone else is saying.
In this scenario, it is the same as buying a painting only to have someone come in and destroy it later. SONY ALREADY DOES THIS WITH GAMES AND MOVIES. You can look that up.
So no your willful misunderstanding of what I am saying is wrong. They will destroy copies of your DIGITAL GAMES going forward when they no longer offer the option of physical discs.
They have done this before, so what is so hard for you to accept and understand about them doing it again?
You WANT to get fucked. You want to have the media you consumed on a subscription based model that you never own. You said yourself you’re ok with that.
And that’s why no one respects your opinion on this. I’ve seen some of the other threads, you can take the “yes daddy fuck meplease” route with gaming and media in general if you want but don’t be upset when a loud majority of people are very vocal about that being bullshit and bad for gaming in general. Because it is.
TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I have never once in my life had the expectation that any digital entitlement I have purchased would be usable for the rest of my life.
Not only would that be an insane, illogical, and entitled perspective to hold; but it is also directly contradicted by every TOS/EULA of every single streaming service I have ever signed up for, and the T&C of every single digital purchase I have ever completed.
I am at a loss as to why you, or anyone else has ever had a different expectation.
Have you never actually read anything you’ve agreed to?
RTFM indeed…
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
With steam I don’t lose my digital license purchases.
I do with PlayStation.
Discs used to be the way that couldn’t happen.
Now they are taking that choice away, and have a proven track record of taking digital shit back.
Unlike steam. And unlike they weren’t able to do on disc games.
That is why people are pissed.
That is also part of the reason more people use steam, because they make pro consumer choices just like that.
It isn’t publishers and devs that want to take it away from you, or steam couldn’t do it. Its PlayStation’s greedy ass that does it.
I made it so simple my child can understand every point I made so I’ll be really impressed if you don’t get it this time.
TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I have never once in my life had the expectation that any digital entitlement I have purchased would be usable for the rest of my life.
Not only would that be an insane, illogical, and entitled perspective to hold; but it is also directly contradicted by every TOS/EULA of every single streaming service I have ever signed up for, and the T&C of every single digital purchase I have ever completed.
I am at a loss as to why you, or anyone else has ever had a different expectation.
I have always expected to lose ALL OF MY DIGITAL ENTITLEMENTS AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE.
Have you never actually read anything you’ve agreed to?