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PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games (www.polygon.com)
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[–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

Certainly if Gamers™ had half a spine, we wouldn't get here. Instead it's always been inch after inch being taken, Gamers™ either downplaying it or viciously complaining about it for a short while without anything tangible happening, and rinse and repeat. Miles have been taken, now Gamers™ argue about 30fps in a game that ships with super draconian DRM and no physical copies because we're already cool with DRM now.

Also the bitter irony when I hear people upset by Sony's steamification switching to PC, the most steamified platform of them all. I guess it beats waiting until 2028 when you can pull the trigger now?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I warned from the moment that steam became a market place that the end of the road was us not having physical games anymore, and not owning our games anymore, and not being able to play our games should steam ever go under.

    and my god the insults I received over the years about it.

    Then other DD platforms popped up, and people bought games there (myself included, fuck you direct2drive), and lost all the games and all the money when the platform died.

    "but steam lets you back up your games!" the inevitable response was.

    Okay.

    But steam backups still require steam to unpack and run. So that does fuckall.

    and with how old steam is, and with how many people use things like humble monthly and shit, who the hell can afford to store local copies of 1500-3500 games? especially when a lot of modern games are 50-150gb in size each.

    Also, at least on PC, we can relatively easily acquire our games via alternative methods. Which I have had to do a few times, for games that I owned and paid for, because of stupid bullshit DRM.

    You aint doing that on modern consoles. If you wanted to play console games via alternative means you either have to 1)Luckout on a jailbreak and have the right firmware for a jailbreak or 2) wait years for an Emulator and a PC that can run it.

    I'm so sick of this cyberpunk hellscape bullshit where you pay everything and own nothing.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (1 child)

    and my god the insults I received over the years about it.

    Me too, me too. When I lost the internet for a mad long time and noticed my steamed games not working because the launcher was refusing to log in while offline (despite having a so-called offline mode) and questioning why a singleplayer game even requires all of this in the first place, I would then get told the problem was actually my internet provider and not the game's or steam's for creating this mess in the first place. Yeah, make it make sense. Incidentally I had to acquire a bunch of executables for those very same games like you did, and yep, they'd work offline as should be. Creator of service problem says piracy is a service problem, why is this not a headline already?

    Then other DD platforms popped up, and people bought games there (myself included, fuck you direct2drive), and lost all the games and all the money when the platform died.

    I'm getting Desura flashbacks. Lucky I downloaded everything I had when I felt the signs of it going down, but I know others weren't as lucky. Silver lining is they're still playable, DRM-free is nice, but like I established we've already moved on from that into bigger fish like "the credits reference a consulting company I don't like."

    I'm so sick of this cyberpunk hellscape bullshit where you pay everything and own nothing.

    And there's not even any cyberware to show for it! But yeah at this point I'm focusing more on buying stuff other than games and playing my massive library of games from multiple decades. It's just I really suck at that too.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I’m getting Desura flashbacks. Lucky I downloaded everything I had when I felt the signs of it going down, but I know others weren’t as lucky. Silver lining is they’re still playable, DRM-free is nice, but like I established we’ve already moved on from that into bigger fish like “the credits reference a consulting company I don’t like.”

    with direct2drive it didnt matter if you downloaded the files, cause the installers still did a call home to direct2drive to decrypt, and that call home server died with the rest of d2d.

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