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Then why do they have the word “buy” on the PS store🤨
Because you buy it. It being a limited license of course, not a game.
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Next time: Acquire license
If I won’t own them, I’m not buying them. This is them shooting themselves in the feet.
yeah but they don’t own their feet
Digital feet only, you say?
If I’ve already bought it I won’t even hesitate to pirate it.
Having backups of owned digital media is just good practice.
People need to stop supporting these companies. Stop buying Nintendo. Stop buying Sony.
I heard sega is thinking about releasing a handheld that takes carts 🤞
Oh cool, still i don’t trust them since they implement Denuvo on some of their games.
Where’d you hear that? :o
Scrolling somewhere… sorry I don’t have more info
Plus Microslop
Its not enough they are ditching physical media, they’re being this brazen about it.
Even if they succeed with a weird judge to prove this… It’s not the point. We want to own stuff, so either make “owning” available or we stop buying/renting.
Also, there is the common online sentiment “If buying isn’t owning, then piracy is not stealing” and I can’t help but believe that this will permiate even deeper into the gaming culture.
Piracy has never been stealing, whether you were allowed to own the thing or not. Piracy is a copyright infringement.
Its crazy how everybody got used to rental prices as high as physical copy.
Most people don’t know they are rentals
I can prove in home that I don’t own any playstation past the 4.
Let’s see who loses.
“Sony pushes the idea that “reasonable consumers would not be misled” into believing they own the games in their digital library”.
Wasn’t this the same basic legal outcome Fox News received when they were sued and it was determined that ‘no reasonable viewer’ would think Tucker Carlson was anything but entertainment? That worked out well.
But people who are easily fooled by such things are exactly the ones who need extra protection. Many laws exist to protect the weaker members of society.
Pirate away. If you don’t know ask. Fuck the system.
You can’t steal what you can’t own.
This kind of thinking is why they’re taking so much heat
They are not wrong tho
The courts still need to weigh in on this. If you purchase a license to use the software, the company shouldn’t have the power to revoke that license without cause. The license should last as long as the copyright/patent/etc. does.
There may well be a valid argument that they don’t make it clear enough at the point of sale too.
They are wrong, you can buy digital downloads from other platforms like GOG, Itch.io, Humble Store, and keep the files forever. There is no DRM on those purchases, no way for the seller to revoke it in any way. Sony could operate their store that way too but choose not to.
They are not wrong, when it comes to their platform
To prove their decision to ban physical was greedy? Are they trying to shoot them on the foot or just a rage bait title?
im just glad i didn’t invest in a console or a gaming PC because game streaming is going to be the norm very soon.
That opinion sounds like it is from 1985.
I’ve still got an OnLive console in my closet gathering dust! Bring on the streaming revolution!
I should clean out my closet.
Hah, no it isn’t. They want it to be, but it’ll only be clueless poors that use it, and then the price will creep up super quickly and it’ll be full of ads and everything is a subscription and your favorite games will just randomly disappear and you won’t be able to do a damn thing about it and suddenly you’ll go “shit, I should have just bought a computer.”
If you trust streaming gaming to be handled responsibly then you should really ask yourself why these companies want so badly for you to not only not own your games but also not even own your hardware, and why you even entertain the notion that the companies offering it will behave any better when they have total control over your entire gaming ecosystem.
who said anything about responsibly? its going to be convenient like video streaming and that’s case closed
