Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)
Guitar@lemmy.world 1 day agoPlenty of games are fully playable in some form of physical media. In fact, the vast majority of games I have purchased in the last year have been fully playable physical copies. Just because there have been several examples of shitty business practices, doesn’t make it a good idea to just give up. There are several massive reasons to die on this hill as others have already outlined in their comments here. Owning the shit we buy, keeping game prices down by giving consumers choice, preventing Sony from giving themselves a monopoly, game preservation. All of these things will be severely damaged or destroyed if we do not die on this hill. If you want to pay less for your games, own what you buy, and preserve games, it is imperative that we stop Sony.
tomkatt@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I feel like we have a misunderstanding. I don’t own a PS5, and sold all my consoles as of the PS3/Xb360 generation, sometime between 2010 and 2012. For ownership I can buy at GOG, or buy Steam games that don’t have DRM.
I’m not sure how this leads to Sony having a monopoly? Or how it changes it? If a game is only available on PS5, it’s only playable on PS5, with it without a disc. If it’s multi-platform the issue is moot either way.
I’m a big advocate of ownership. I strip DRM from my books, I have a NAS full of FLAC music I purchased rather than stream. I boycotted EA and bought nothing from them for nearly a decade when Madden became console exclusive, on principle.
It’s just… if you care about ownership, why play on a proprietary, locked down platform in the first place? And exactly how does a one week boycott resolve the issue? It just seems half-assed? Why not boycott altogether and/or change platforms?
And why just Sony? Nintendo is releasing carts that are literally just game codes for download. How is that different? The cart is essentially useless and conveys no ownership in that case either.
Guitar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
tomkatt@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not sure what you mean by “if everyone follows Sony’s example. Sony is the one following, and DRM has been around since old PC games in the 80s.
Denuvo, easy anti-cheat, EA Play and Ubisoft’s platform with forced logins and online requirements, and plenty of other DRM methods have been around long before all this.
If you want to change it, you have to not buy from them entirely, not just do a short partial boycott. They only ever back down if there’s a major cost.