well they just hired a new xBox CEO so.....
you raise a good, but concerning point. With the digital model, how long will it be before the "Terms and Conditions" slip in a line indicating that (paraphrasing) "This title might contain game breaking, or other serious bugs, by clicking on the 'Terms and Conditions' you as the purchaser agree to this aspect of your purchase"....
They might well do that
It's not like they can read it these days. I looked at the reading stats in my state, and they're awful.
That is incredibly sad
I think in some ways, they already do. In many ways, collections might not be such a great deal, because you then have to refund the entire thing rather than an individual game if you have a bad enough issue with one of then, like my issue with Arkham Knight via the Arkham Collection on PS5 as part of the making it unplayable for instance.
It's not just that Sony are ending production of discs....
It's that they're announcing that at the same time as they're taking away peoples purchases (not rentals) and claiming they were not purchases to begin with.
But hey, if purchasing isn't owning, then I guess piracy isn't stealing, amirite.
Even the Ferengi have more ethical business practices then 9/10 of the scumbag corpos alive today.
It's that they're announcing that at the same time as they're taking away peoples purchases (not rentals) and claiming they were not purchases to begin with.
But hey, if purchasing isn't owning, then I guess piracy isn't stealing, amirite.
Even the Ferengi have more ethical business practices then 9/10 of the scumbag corpos alive today.
It's not just that Sony are ending production of discs....
It's that they're announcing that at the same time as they're taking away peoples purchases (not rentals) and claiming they were not purchases to begin with.
But hey, if purchasing isn't owning, then I guess piracy isn't stealing, amirite.
Even the Ferengi have more ethical business practices then 9/10 of the scumbag corpos alive today.
Customers especially gamers keep buying from Sony and not voting with their wallets so they keep doing the shit they keep doing.
Governments should be more proactive with these corporations regarding things like consume rights but even that gets screwed around because corporations lobby a lot.
I think the difference is that even if you're buying it on disc, you're still tied to the ecosystem. It's not like PC where it is an open platform and can either buy from Steam, GOG or Epic Store, and Sony has always been controlling the price at all of the major outlets and dictating the sale prices. But that would also be true of XBox, and I think that is pretty much the reality of consoles as a platform as they are not open platforms, and it is why you would never see another store such as Steam on them.
The problem is that even if you buy the disc, you're still downloading a ton.
If I can get a video game on GoG, that's my go to for most of my video gaming. I will buy for my PS5, but I only buy on discount as I don't spend a lot of time playing games on my TV.
That too. It may be a surprise to many, but the day when most of the content was on-disc has long since passed. And that is doubly so when many games are bigger than what can fit on a DVD. When RDR2 came out, it came out on 2 Bluray discs, one of them being a data-disk. With games becoming bigger and bigger, it makes less and less sense to ship on on disk.
I guess one of the ways to check is if a game starts the copy process. Usually if a game is on disc, it will start the copy process, whereas if the disc is simply initializing a download, you then see it fetch the download straight away.
They still have massive patches.
The closest you can get to digital ownership with new games that you pay money for is GOG.
And some games have been abandoned.
I have noticed that even on GOG, games don't get nearly the same amount of support that they do as on Steam or Epic. There have been instances of games no longer being supported there while being kept updated on the other platforms.
There's a website which lists which games are fully on disc and which aren't. I use it frequently.
(https://www.doesitplay.org/)
Also in some countries they legally have to list on the box that a download is required to play the game.
Same and I wish GOG would do something about that but I guess the original publishers do not want to deal with them
There's a website which lists which games are fully on disc and which aren't. I use it frequently.
(https://www.doesitplay.org/)
Also in some countries they legally have to list on the box that a download is required to play the game.
I should have known there'd be a website for that. There's a website these days for nearly everything.
I can guess that maybe it's inconvenient for developers to make a separate fork without DRM, that maybe they consider it a nuissance to deal with, when DRM gives the developer benefits. It maybe leaves them with less of an incentive to keep updating their games on a platform that they have to put extra work into. This is less of a problem with older games that we don't expect updates to in the first place, but over time GOG has had more and more recent releases.
It's frustrating because it can sometimes take over a year for updates and even then they are not always at parity to the others on the other platforms.
It's definitely the lack of DRM that is the reason most devs won't issue speedier updates on GOG. I mean there's no real alternative for them since GOG also promotes full ownership with offline downloads.
