Comment on Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Began in 1995

• charokol@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Those things are part of owning

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  • sbbq@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well yeah, it’s “only one thing” if you bundle several other things in with that “one thing” in your bad faith argument.

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  • raze2012@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    literally the only problem

    hides all the benefits of ‘one thing’

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    • novibe@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      But it’s not a downside of being digital. It’s a downside of greedy corporations that are using a product that is superior to increase their control over consumers.

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      • godsammitdam@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So don’t be cattle and give up ownership for convenience? Greedy corporations listen to one thing.

        Physical is simply where more ownership tends to exist.

        And if it doesn’t? Fuck your closed off platform, if I’m forced into digital, I can get it on PC with mods, version states, often better performance, and possibly even some levels of ownership if DRM free versions exist for purchase.

        Make informed decisions. This is also why we’re loosing our freedoms to fascism around the world as we choose convenience over our freedoms and rights.

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      • raze2012@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If a format is “superior”, but is made “inferior”, is it truly “superior” to begin with?

        We can daydream about ways to resell, keep, and lend our digital goods. But I’m more judging in the current day.

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• Visstix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You can lend out digital games on switch.

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