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"

• DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They take the same 30% that PlayStation, Xbox, and GOG take.

  So if they can afford it so can PlayStation.

  Its not the studio who hosts it its the PS store and steam and Xbox who run the download servers.

  And again, it isn’t the publisher that chooses to take a copy you own or they would tell Steam to stop. It is the store that you bought it on that chooses to do that. PlayStation and Xbox choose to do that, steam doesn’t which is why no one ever raised hell about steam having non physical (minus like, two or 3 games they made long ago) because they know when they buy it on steam they can download it forever or at least until Gabe dies.

  If you are really for the end of micropladtics you should be supporting pro consumer choices that make people WANT digital, just like steam is doing.

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  • TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No. Steam elects to absorb the lifetime hosting costs and builds a perpetual license into the publishing deal.

    All Sony and MS publishing deals are time bound and the developer/publisher is responsible for hosting costs. When the publisher doesn’t want to pay anymore, the title gets taken down.

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    • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just googled it and no, they don’t do that.

      Do you have a source for that? Sony says they take 30% cut. You pay via revenue share of a cur of game sales and not recurring maintenance costs.

      So nope. Sony being anti consumer isn’t because of their licensing agreement here. They take the same exact split that steam does for the same reasons. They don’t pay for download hosting on the PS store or steam store except for that 30% revenue split.

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      • TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “Trust me bro, I googled it!”

        And what happens when the developer/publishers licenses (middleware, brands/teams, music, etc) expire?

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