• Luffy@lemmy.ml
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    With a CD you had the option to play on an airgapped ps4

    Also, the problem is not digital but not being able to transfer your license, etc

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      But ps4 is old, yes? Does it still get new games? And can you just give me your disc and then it’s my game? If yes, I can’t imagine that this would be around any longer. You must not own things.

      My wife has a switch and this thing is just shit. Expensive crap games bound to your account. Most are just codes anyway.

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        I’m a big fan of the switch, since it can be emulated. Best way to play console games… wait a few years and have pretty much all of them.

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          Nice. But still. This will end in the next 1-2yrs I assume, as one is urged to upgrade to the ps5?

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            Then why ask if all games will run offline forever? You clearly don’t care if your games will run offline forever if you think that the next console has any bearing on the matter.

            You must be young. I still have my PlayStation 2 from when I was a kid. Works with every game I ever got for it. Same for n64, game boy, etc.

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              My first and only console was an Atari 2600 with pong being the first ever played game. Guess the youngster is you 😉 Since then I was PC only. I like the option to own everything forever (pirated if no other means available) and archive it forever. Legally this option died 2 decades ago thanks to steam. So I just wondered why the big consoles still allow this.

              Run forever is nice, but it also ends with the end of your ps4 then. So “forever” is kinda bound to that life. My Atari cartridges are still here and might even still work, but no consoles left and why would I even after 4 decades.

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                Legally this option died 2 decades ago thanks to steam. So I just wondered why the big consoles still allow this.

                Huh? I don’t think Valve wrote any laws about this, or even lobbied for them.

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                  No they didn’t, they just relied on people prefering the “easy” way. Buy+download+play. But you can’t trade your games. Your license is tied to you. Physical media died due to steam. Hence trading and ownership. There is just GOG left where you buy stuff which is DRM-free and yours forever. BUT only old titles and SOME newer.

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                    That’s just providing better service than piracy, not any change in what is legal. Physical media is unrelated (or barely related)

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        Switch is still offline… you can play any game you got on a cartridge for forever with no problems, what are you drinking dude?

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          Unless we’re talking Switch 2 game key cards. Those are just downloads you can trade. But at least Nintendo puts all of their own properties on full carts rather than game key cards (Pokopia aside; Gamefreak and Pokemon are technically not Nintendo).

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          I don’t drink. But also don’t use the switch. Also I said most games are codes in a box with no cartridge. She only has one damn thing on a cartridge. Considering how much we paid for that tiny console and how expensive the games are, I wouldn’t touch those with a 10m-pole. Would pay a bit more and get a steamdeck if I absolutely HAD to be mobile.