That cannot be revoked arbitrarily by fuckheads like this piece of trash.

No one is trying to claim they own the IP, and no one is claiming they own the source code to the game either.

That seems to be the way all these fucking companies try to frame things to justify telling you to pay them and then fuck off. They're trying to justify having you pay them for nothing, and then enforce it legally.

And nobody struggles with this for books. Not one soul.

best we can do is you own nothing and be happy!

They are really asking for it.

I think GTA, and this most anticipated release of a game in perhaps ever, really fucked up in screwing over their union right before the release, (last I heard, in passing,) and are similarly just asking to be pirated.

You mean the same guy that told people to work two jobs for the honor of buying his five hundred and ninety nine dollar console in 2006? Oh yeah, he's an asshole.

We are fools each time to expect any different :(

All of them are, especially when you get anywhere near the size of Sony.

Its very crowded there at the asshole department.

It's a metaphor in the sense that if they didn't get rid of physical disks, they would still be putting games on them that don't work without an internet connection and cannot be resold.

It became a metaphor back around when they released Empire, Total War, (edit: 2012 ish maybe,) and the disk meant nothing and just sent you to Steam to download it, forcing you to keep steam on your computer that tried to run at all times, and make you ask for permission every time you wanted to play the game, revocable at any moment I presume.

It really is an us vs them thing now. There's zero respect given to the consumer. They believe all people are their addicts who will always push the button to receive their food pellet.

My PS5 hasn't been turned on for a year. Others will catch on. Reading books has taken over because they've become a better experience than turning on a corporate product.

We just need to be honest with ourselves and say no more to corporate products. The video games, the crappy food, bad drive thru coffee, electronics that are all junk, and even our news and information is comes from the same types of places. All of it is crap. Worthless crap and we've been spending our lives consumed in it.

Whelp, that's reason enough to repost it at /c/NotTheOnion.

I haven't bought anything Sony since they put malicious software on their CDs.

Haven't turned on my PS5 in a year. I'm not some revolutionary. I'm a person who quits a rigged game and I know bullshit when I see it. I don't argue with myself or sulk. I quit immediately and find something that I'll enjoy. No one is enjoying their PS5 the way they enjoyed gaming systems in the past.

Getting a system meant something. Now, it's like a poor financial decision. The hardware is iffy at best and you know you have to hit a wall of subscription requests, ads, filling out forms, giving up personal information...and it never used to be like this. We'd rip open the box, slam a game in, and start playing as a group in the family room.

It's not the same experience anymore. It hinges on addiction. What was once fun is now a dead social experiment. Look at gaming today vs the 80s and 90s. Depression and online gaming go hand in hand. I never gamed back then because I was depressed. It was fun and we partied over Goldeneye. What we're experiencing today is harmful to people.

There's definitely more to this story than we're all privy to.

People should feel that others look at them dimly for giving money to sony, any personal boycott is just personal decision that affects only your own life.

Correct, thats what I thought as well.

It really makes me worried to be fair.

I'm not one to subscribe to conspiracy theories, I try to think myself as someone who can process information in an objective^1^ , level-headed, reasonable (scientific) manner. Occam's razor and all - and pretty much every theory fails these simple tests of logic.

(^1^Objective in thinking, not in opinion. Opinions are by definition subjective)

But I can't help coming back to the "forced no local computing" theory that's been going around for about two years, where people theorised that the entire DRAM/NAND/chip shortage is just a ploy to move computing power away from ownership by people and towards corporate hosted services.

Which is obviously dumb because what company would say "you know what, B2B is enough for us, why should we sell for B2C?", what company would axe half its market just so the other half can sell a service instead of a product?

Especially when you consider some of the heaviest computing dependent things: gaming being the foremost leader, followed by various other 3D rendering requisites (from artistic through engineering modelling, physics test frameworks for about a dozen major industries that use them indirectly, including construction, aerospace, radio technologies and so on), compute heavy processing of data, hell, code compilation or even complex map rendering...

But then all of a sudden the big gaming giants began faltering. Xbox had three layoffs from Xbox and a new one is rumoured as they're "restructuring" the department from gaming-focused work to 'digital media creation'... Sony is doing their best to lose customers, and Nintendo... well they didn't change a bit.

Every single major gaming studio/publisher seems to be running straight into the forest of dicks with a wide open mouth. And it can't just be greed and stupidity. Some companies doing this, I'd agree, but all the major ones, at the same time? This looks more and more like an intentional attempt at destroying the primary consumer market for high end computer hardware. Destroy the demand, wait 5-10 years, restart game studios (consolidated into 2-3 megacorps of course), and sell games as a service. No ownership, no modding, no piracy, no need for "loud and hot local hardware", just a display and a controller. Wet dream of business execs...

Lend

He'd probably argue you couldn't legally do that with the disc copy you had though.

Most games today are shiite cash grabs anyway. They are made to waste your time, not to engage the player or to have fun.

It's always pathetic when these super old guys dye their hair constantly, like Steven Seagall, he's like 80 without a single grey hair, and not grey roots even, meaning he is dying like all the time.

Everyone ages, at some point, just embrace it. After 60, 70 tops, just go with the grey.

Naw man, that's just what they want you to believe because it benefits them.

We've de facto owned copies of whatever was purchased until the Internet changed the way ownership functions.

Laws are written by people. Traditionally, greedy people.

I think everyone understands just fine, we just won't be able to change that until the people who write laws are changed.

Revoke my books. I fucking dare you.