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.
Holy shit, that’s slimy even by their standards. It’s like they’re begging to be pirated lol.
No disc? No buy.
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They are taking ground step by step. We must push back.
You push back by switching to PC (preferrably Linux) and never giving Sony a single cent ever again
…where you can buy physical media! And resell your games!
Rolls eyes. This is getting so boring. It’s Sony. You don’t need games. You certainly don’t need their hardware.
I couldn’t care less.
Edit: left out a word! No wonder people jumped on me, lol. I meant to say you don’t need SONYS games.
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
Why do people feel the need to announce they don’t care about something?
Because this is freaking everywhere. People won’t shut up about it, and it’s Sony. Have people not been paying attention?
Are you not aware that this is a gaming community
Yep. No sense in complaining at all the other places. And Sony has been fucking over people forever, its what they do.
Uh OK
cool, dude.
How can you? They’ve done the numbers and have decided they can exist without customers who have to have physical discs. Physical media only makes up 25% of sales to begin with.
It’s much less than 25% actually.
As you said, they’ve got literally all the data on game sales on their platform. They know that digital is the winner for the large majority of their customers. As you said, they know they don’t need physical buyers as they’re people who generally give less money to them anyway.
Simple, you buy competitors’ products and you vote for policymakers that commit to regulatory policy.
Regulatory policy to force a company to make a product?
Regulatory policy for customer protection. The “stop killing games” initiative raises good points: make games playable in perpetuity and clearly state if you are only renting a license, rather than buying.
I’m going to fight this by purchasing digital games on steam. That’ll show 'em.
But seriously, this isn’t an attack from Sony, it’s a reaction. People are trending towards digital purchases on all platforms. If the PlayStation is irrelevant without physical games then they will die by their own sword. Prior to this plenty of people were denigrating consoles as overpriced locked down computers anyway, this hardly makes a difference.
They’re expecting people to give in. It’s easier to buy something digitally, but it sure as hell ain’t better. They are counting on us shrugging our shoulders, throwing our hands up, but ultimately giving up and giving in.
Don’t.
The last thing I need is more crap around the house. I vastly prefer digital, as long as I get the files and can do anything I want with them.
I am opposed to DRM, but digital itself is far preferable. When I travel knowing I can grab any game I want from my server (before or even after I arrive) and play it on any device I want is far superior to having to carry around physical items that only work with one device - a device I also would have to bring with me.
The problem is people already gave in when they choose a system that is useless for anything except one specific purpose and one specific game format.
Your last sentence fits perfectly about their hardware.
Far preferable? lmao you are ignorant beyond imagination
Yes. Far preferable and I gave you reasons why.
Care to comment on that, or just going to sling insults?
The people who have an issue with Sony’s business practices are already not buying their products, like me for instance.
They’ve already decided that they don’t want you as a customer. It’s like telling your boss, “You can’t fire me; I quit.”
It is better for many people. It all depends on what you prefer. I personally prefer having a full digital library that I can share via home console sharing, that I can access at any time from any Internet connected console at any time, that I don’t have to worry about my kids damaging or losing my disks, and that I can just buy and play at any time of day. I’m middle aged with kids, I’m not loaning games to friends or trading games in.
It costs more of my time to drive to the shops to buy a game than I’d save over buying digital, and as you get older you understand that time is the most important thing you have.
I know they won’t, but Microsoft has the chance to do something hilarious right now.
Is the hilarious thing to follow suit and announce the end of them offering physical disks?
Knowing Microsoft they would rather make all their games rent only and non transferable.
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.
Just don’t buy it? Gaming console is a luxury product
If console games get more expensive because of this, PC games will follow.
Console games are more expansive than PC, and miraculously that doesn’t happen
When console games went to €70 all PC games miraculously remained at €60—
Oh, wait, no. That didn’t happen.
And sure, that’s not most games. There are a lot of indies which are far more reasonably priced. Either way, the €60 price ceiling previously in place has moved up, making it easier for AA and indie games to move up in price as well.
“Just don’t buy those games!” Sure, whatever man. All I’m saying is that there is some influence between the two.
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.
Yet your dumb ass has commented here a bunch of times.
Yep. Might as well do it somewhere.
Nice to call me a dumbass. You a sony boot licker or what?
I think you’d agree with me that it matters enough to comment on.
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?
You might be thinking of the Xbox One. That reveal had a number of major unforced errors, but the killing of the used game market was the one everyone remembers because Sony REALLY nailed them to the cross with it.
Other hilarious fumbles include:
- The name.
- Forced inclusion of the Kinect, a mandatory $100 always-on camera and microphone in your living room, in the same year that the Snowden leaks happened.
- Underpowered DDR3 memory compared to the PS4’s GDDR5.
- Unwavering, pathological obsession with using the Xbox as a TV set-top box, going so far as to showing The Price is Right on stage. For context for younger people, The Price is Right was your great grandmother’s favorite show.
Actually, rewatching that video, this is basically where the Ball and Gun Gamer was born. Xbox really was forward thinking on this one specific thing…
You’re misremembering too. They didn’t want to kill the used game market. You were still going to be able to trade in your games.
Their original Xbox One system was the best of both physical and digital combined in one.
