▲ 75 ▼ Sony Killed Physical, Then Blamed You (www.youtube.com) submitted 1 month ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/skg@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca [S] 12 points 1 month ago (7 children) There wasn’t enough push back for paid multiplayer. permalink fedilink source hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] shifty@leminal.space 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children) My pushback was voting with my wallet, opting out of paid multiplayer and then eventually opting out of console gaming entitely. Ps3, Xbone Xbox 360 and the switch were my last consoles. And I won't ever buy their games ported to PC or really any game made for console first, and then ported to PC as an afterthought with shitty UI. There's too amny great PC games out there to put up with that disrespect. Now the only "console" in my future is the steam deck and its successors. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca [S] 3 points 1 month ago* (1 child) What made you buy a Xbox one? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] shifty@leminal.space 4 points 1 month ago It was an Xbox 360 I misremembered. To play Halo 3 permalink fedilink source parent [–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (1 child) That was micro$lop's biggest win, for sure. "How about we charge people to connect their device to the internet they're already paying for?", Sony was quick to follow with the PS3 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago removes the ability to self-host servers and insists that everyone us their own servers have to charge for online because hosting so many servers is expensive Sony and Microsoft: It's an unfortunate reality! How could we have possibly seen this coming! But look, you get voice chat! 15 years later, Nintendo: I could use some beer money. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Malica@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago And loot boxes permalink fedilink source parent [–] Arda@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago I remember getting downvoted into oblivion in the psplus subreddit years ago.... People liked it.. well I'm on pc now and never bringing a console in my house that makes me pay to use it permalink fedilink source parent
[–] shifty@leminal.space 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children) My pushback was voting with my wallet, opting out of paid multiplayer and then eventually opting out of console gaming entitely. Ps3, Xbone Xbox 360 and the switch were my last consoles. And I won't ever buy their games ported to PC or really any game made for console first, and then ported to PC as an afterthought with shitty UI. There's too amny great PC games out there to put up with that disrespect. Now the only "console" in my future is the steam deck and its successors. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca [S] 3 points 1 month ago* (1 child) What made you buy a Xbox one? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] shifty@leminal.space 4 points 1 month ago It was an Xbox 360 I misremembered. To play Halo 3 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca [S] 3 points 1 month ago* (1 child) What made you buy a Xbox one? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] shifty@leminal.space 4 points 1 month ago It was an Xbox 360 I misremembered. To play Halo 3 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] shifty@leminal.space 4 points 1 month ago It was an Xbox 360 I misremembered. To play Halo 3 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (1 child) That was micro$lop's biggest win, for sure. "How about we charge people to connect their device to the internet they're already paying for?", Sony was quick to follow with the PS3 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago removes the ability to self-host servers and insists that everyone us their own servers have to charge for online because hosting so many servers is expensive Sony and Microsoft: It's an unfortunate reality! How could we have possibly seen this coming! But look, you get voice chat! 15 years later, Nintendo: I could use some beer money. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago removes the ability to self-host servers and insists that everyone us their own servers have to charge for online because hosting so many servers is expensive Sony and Microsoft: It's an unfortunate reality! How could we have possibly seen this coming! But look, you get voice chat! 15 years later, Nintendo: I could use some beer money. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Arda@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago I remember getting downvoted into oblivion in the psplus subreddit years ago.... People liked it.. well I'm on pc now and never bringing a console in my house that makes me pay to use it permalink fedilink source parent