PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive

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• aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s not the physical media that makes this suck. It’s the fact that there are no protections in place for ordinary customers to prevent them from being abused like this.

  Virtual digital media is just fine. The problem is that it’s all DRM-wrapped garbageware that is “licensed” not owned. It ought to be fucking illegal to sell this kind of shit.

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• Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That was the last thing consoles had going for them. The only thing that will keep the next gen from flopping is inertia and maybe EXTREMELY aggressive pricing.

  Sony can’t be trusted with digital content: consumerrights.wiki/…/Sony's_attempted_removal_of… They can’t be trusted to keep providing support for digital content storefronts gameinformer.com/…/ps3-ps-vita-and-psp-stores-are… And they can’t be trusted te keep offering features they announced consumerrights.wiki/…/PlayStation_3_Removal_of_Ot…

  So, yeah, why would I buy a box with built in obsolescence from a company who has pressed the “make obsolete” button multiple times? If I’m buying downloadable games I’ll do so on a platform that I can run in any machine I want to, and that will keep supporting things I bought for decades to come.

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• melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No more offensive than two streaming companies offering the movie “It Part I” on one companies subscription and “It Part II” on another’s. They’re just blatantly pissing in our face from above and yelling “Fuck You!” out in the open now.

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  • huey_m@reddthat.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Holy shit, that’s slimy even by their standards. It’s like they’re begging to be pirated lol.

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  • heartSagan5@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’d be awesome if Disney released some back to Netflix (like after a year), rather than “nuh-uh, pay for us.” Fuck’em, I’m going to Tortuga.

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• hahattpro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They are taking ground step by step. We must push back.

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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You push back by switching to PC (preferrably Linux) and never giving Sony a single cent ever again

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      …where you can buy physical media! And resell your games!

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  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Rolls eyes. This is getting so boring.

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    • markz@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Why do people feel the need to announce they don’t care about something?

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    • BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah this guy is right. You don’t need games. We should shut down this whole community. In fact, destroy all aspects of society that have ever had the slimmest negatives that aren’t vital to daily survival

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    • MoreZombies@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      cool, dude.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Imagine if, like, 6 years after Steam launched, they deleted 500 games from the libraries of those who bought them. I guarantee nobody would be using it in 2026 if that happened.

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    What makes this interesting is, for some period, Valve did sell movies. You could even download the WMVs of the Meet the Team trailers.

    Pretty sure that’s not been deleted from anyone.

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• FreddiesLantern@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  No disc? No buy.

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• kinther@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I haven’t bought physical media in years. I haven’t lost any games by buying digital only. That said, there is something concerning about the ability of companies to take away what you have already paid for, or retire it from a platform.

  Once sold, you should have to be able to sell it back - something like “we’re offering you $0.50 to sell your copy of RandomGame2008 you haven’t played in 18 years”. I bet you a bunch of people would agree to that if it was credited to a wallet toward new games. I have a backlog of games I would sell that I bought… on sale… bought never ended up playing.

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• HairyTeeth@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I know they won’t, but Microsoft has the chance to do something hilarious right now.

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  • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They basically put all their eggs in the Gamepass basket, and Gamepass sure as hell wasn't physical discs. If it was, it would just be Blockbuster... which is actually kinda funny to think about.

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  • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Knowing Microsoft they would rather make all their games rent only and non transferable.

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  • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is the hilarious thing to follow suit and announce the end of them offering physical disks?

    gamesindustry.biz/xbox-is-reportedly-considering-…

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  • DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’ll probably release a new Series S as a streaming only console. And a new Series X, maybe with a disc drive. Gen after that it’ll be streaming only.

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  • MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thin client xbox and stream games only doesn’t sound too hilarious, but I think that’s what we’ll see.

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• nicpicname@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck Sony

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  • axx@slrpnk.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes, and this has been true for a long, long time.

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• tb_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Official PlayStation Used Game Instructional Video

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• NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Blah, blah, blah. So tired of hearing about this.

  Nobody should be trusting Sony, disc or no disc.

  Rootkit anyone?

  Twice Linux promised and then removed with a bait and switch?

  So Sony isn’t going to have physical disks, so fucking what. Just other thing on the pile.

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  • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think you’d agree with me that it matters enough to comment on.

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  • mellowistheyellow@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yet your dumb ass has commented here a bunch of times.

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    • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yep. Might as well do it somewhere.

      Nice to call me a dumbass. You a soby booy licker or what?

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  • louloukoutsis@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still remember when they promised the Xperia Play would get Android 4.0, released a beta, and then never released a final version and it remained on 2.3.4!! We remember, Sony!!!

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• whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m one of the indifferent ones and I would actually echo the companies in “no one buys physical media anymore and the stats prove it”.

  Now that doesn’t mean it’s right. I’m also there I love used game shops and I still will once in a while buy a game for my Xbox series x.

  That said, for decades now PC games have been dl through steam. People very much do not buy physical games. The only difference is this is a walled ecosystem in PS (or MS as I’m sure they will follow suite if they survive the console wars). Nintendo?

  So I guess what I’m saying is although I get the hatred, where have all you fuckers been while physical media has pretty much disappeared everywhere? Or is the truth that you are all a vocal minority screaming into a hurricane?

  I’m not looking to stir up shit. I honestly want to know. I would probably still buy an Xbox if it’s cheap and game pass is around and no physical media. I can always go back to PC gaming if I want. I still have the choice. To complain about a company business decision though if they really believe it’s where the market is going (and I think I agree) then good on them. Just don’t buy a PS6?

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I agree. Haven’t got a physical game in 20 years

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    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Yeah and this is where the rub is I guess. On a PC you can pirate. On a PC you can easily mod. There’s a level of freedom that is not gated like on a console.

      Historically, consoles have not been cost prohibitive so they’re more attractive.

      “Wait, I can play God of War and I don’t have to pay $1500 for a PC?” (Let’s ignore the truth you can build a computer for much cheaper to play games many people don’t go that far)

      So I’m with you, this is console gamers. Which goes back to my point this is PS (and will be MS and Nintendo soon enough) and industry is going to the death of physical media this is the sad reality. If they want to do that to save costs and have the added benefit to further control their gated ecosystem good on them. You always can go to PC.

      I’ve been a console gamer almost exclusively for 15+ years now (aside from a handful of steam games I can run on a low spec old laptop). Are console gamers really this lazy + entitled?

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• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  🏴‍☠️

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• garbage_world@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Just don’t buy it? Gaming console is a luxury product

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  • tb_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If console games get more expensive because of this, PC games will follow.

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    • garbage_world@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Console games are more expansive than PC, and miraculously that doesn’t happen

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• tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Isn’t this one of the biggest things that tanked Xbox’s series x announcement? Like, they changed their minds but still lost good will and customers?

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Aha!

  IGN waits 48 hrs to have an opinion, and they go with offensive.

  No, that’s hard enough, you fucking shills.

  Its criminal. It subverts the entire concept of personal property rights. It is so offensive that to let it stand would be an ongoing affront to quite literally human rights.

  If you allow a paradigm to exist, in an increasingly digital world and economy, that your digital goods can be evaporated, at whim, by the seller, after you purchased them, with no refund?

  You get cyberpunk dystopia from this. You turn corporations formally into more powerful entities than most states.

  The only reason you fucking morons describe this as baffling is because you are their second order PR agency. You’re idiots, its been obvious this was the plan for over a decade… you cannot possibly be surprised by this without being corporate cucks.

  You fucking cunts dare to angle yourselves as sharing the same concerns as SKG, as Ross Scott?

  Where the fuck were you a decade ago when Ross started talking about this? You’re goddamned media company, you could have signal boosted him this whole fucking time.

  Fuck you Luke, you duplicitous bootlicking hack.

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  • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sony has a shitty history of anti-consumer behaviours, and no one should buy anything from them, but not selling something isn’t a crime; it’s not even illegal.

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