Check your caps.

You're also old enough to schedule your first colonoscopy.

The SWAT team comes to your house and smashes them all.

You can buy the premium subscription to ensure that feature remains disabled.

You get 3hrs? I can’t even get mine to charge at all.

They also animated each one in a strange uncompressed video format instead of using effects over them. They are not optional, even though 95% are from optional dlcs you don't own.

A classic

Literally, the $80 is the most unrealistic thing in that post.

So depressing.

Its so going to happen

It is the one thing that grinds my gears about Steam sometimes.

This first happened to me in 2014? It's super frustrating.

It also happens with Steam. I remember forgetting to go offline before taking my gaming laptop to the woods or in airplanes, and suddenly not being able to play.

i felt this way when A: drives went away. if it doesn't have to be a sony brand BD player and could just be one that meets certain specs... fuck prices are going up such that 350 will be "cheap" soon.

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Pre-orders used to be to make sure you have a copy available to purchase on release day. Now there's no point in that since there's effectively an infinite stock since it's a digital product. Now it's just to get a sub-par DLC outfit that doesn't look good with anything.

Okay, but how will I get the Most Cutting Of Cutting Edge Graphis with Ray Dicking And Light Emulsifying and Video To Smell Technology?!

Everything that isn't on 64k resolution video is basically unplayable.

No, budget PCs and indies - NOT piracy.

If you base your gaming life around piracy, no one is paying for the industry. No golden parachutes for Take Two execs, but also no return on indie development - every game would be by a first time studio mortgaging their house and closing immediately after.

Do not condition people around never paying for media. You get what you pay for. And if you’re not paying, you doom yourself to pages of games full of ad-driven AI slop.

Steam has been fine with this for years.

I don't understand how anyone that plays online games would buy a PS or an Xbox. Paid online is so dumb.

people never change

People do change. But they have to start from somewhere.

You can convince a 20 year old on a budget not to buy a PS6 by showing them a PC rig at 1/4 the cost with a better catalog. But you're not going to convince an 8 year old who wants parents to buy it because a guy in a TMNT costume did a TikTok dance telling him to buy it. That's just 8 year olds for you.

player that bought fifa every year for the full price

There are folks with more disposable income than sense. And $80/year to get the players you're familiar with on the roster, when you've got a decent job and a couple of roommates to play with, simply isn't a big deal. At the same time, you get older and you have less free time and suddenly you're not playing soccer video games anymore because you don't recognize the players. And then maybe you end up going back to the old FIFA titles because you're nostalgic for your youth.

But this idea that people just mechanically buy all new FIFA titles forever really neglects how people get old and stop playing the games at all. And the industry has to bring in new younger people with billions of dollars in saturation advertisement if they want to keep churning out titles.

For how much longer though? Older consoles and games are no longer being made and each year fewer and fewer will be available.

Emulators, too

Or PC games being far more backwards compatible in general.

That's a very nice way to console yourself.

It's downstream of a bunch of retail game shops - GameStop, Newegg, Toys'R'Us, RadioShack - all going tits up over the last ten years. Giving up on physical media isn't some Machiavellian business play. It's a response to their historical vendors dying out.

Unless Sony starts opening up their own mall kiosks, they won't have anywhere to sell physical copies outside Amazon or Walmart. And there's a reason you don't want these two to be your primary retail pipeline.

legally-required to verify your identity

UK has pushing that stuff for over a year.

As there is no way for the NSA/CIA/FBI/PTA to monitor what's on a flash drive in your pocket, such physical media will be made illegal. Possession of physical computer storage media that is not permanently connected to the internet will be grounds for arrest and reeducation.

I thought switch 2 games were also essentially Download only? Like you got a cartridge but it was just a means to download the game, rather than the game itself