I’m sure they are so upset that they’ll go and rent another $70 game from them to cope.
I won’t. I won’t buy any games from Sony for the foreseeable future
I’m just sick of the general population enabling this behavior.
Many gamers are like meth-heads. They just need their next fix, hence pre-orders for digital games.
Even if GTA6 would need a donation of your blood and all of your personal information, I doubt that sales figures would take a significant hit.
I can live without their consoles for the rest of my game playing life. My God, it isn’t like they do anything daring like Nintendo or Sega.
They offer no actual advantage over my existing pc beyond IP.
Microsoft and Sony haven’t really pushed gaming hardware forward, and if they are just selling software then my graphics card does better.
Xbox did try with kinect. Then they shot themselves in the face by suggesting they were going to force it to always be on, always be online and use facial recognition to force everybody present to own a copy of the game.
They backtracked quick, but the noose was already around the ki-neck by then. I’m still salty about that. The kinect was fun as heck
If you want to own your games, do not buy closed platforms like Playstation or Nintendo, do not buy games infected with Denuvo or any other malware/DRM that prevents you from backing it up, and do not buy games that require you to use a company’s servers with no option to host yourself.
So in other words, just go the piracy route.
I have 5 generations of PlayStation consoles, i probably won’t have the 6th.
For what it’s worth I’m 100000% never buying a sony product again
I’m afraid it’ll be for xbox too. If you havent already you’ll need a PC and start a pirate treasure hoard.
Pirates own their games.
The end of ownership came a long time ago for PS players. Now it’s just the end of fancy boxes and discs that give an illusion of ownership.
Which is still bad, but let’s not mix up facts.
Something about if you buy something but it can be taken away from you arbitrarily by the company…
Sony is so bad at digital ownership that it was apparently easier for some dude in Brazil to claim my account than for them to double check I didn’t move halfway across the globe overnight. Also the recovery process is absolutely terrible. It’s literally the only moderately important account that guy was able to “hack” into.
And I did reset the reused password after it got leaked but I guess the guy was able to force his way through customer support simply by knowing the old password and the mail address (that they never had access to, mind you. It’s still secured and regularly checked). Even fucking reddit did a better job at securing my old account.
“My home builder is totally useless! I left my door unlocked and someone stole all my shit!”
I changed the password to all my accounts, including the Sony one (and the other ones still in use, and all the remotely important/“meaningful” security-wise unused ones) before they somehow got access to this one. I just got to see them bounce off a few others, which is how I guessed they were in Brazil, from the related security mails infos.
I used a different, secure password for every account this time. Idk what I could have done better and it seems to have worked for all my other accounts so far.
You could have protected your account info in the first place…
That headline seems pretty snarky lol.
We’re overloading the term “ownership”.
- When a company says “ownership” they mean over the property itself. Copyright. Only the rights holders “own” the game, only they can make a sequel to the game.
- When a player says “ownership” they’re referring to their copy of their game, i.e. their license. No copyright. They do not own the game, they just own a license to experience it, they cannot make a sequel.
People then try to say “well the issue isn’t ownership, it’s DRM”. No. DRM that makes the experience worse for paying customers is annoying, but it’s not the issue at hand. Virtually all your games for all your consoles have some form of DRM, and yet you consider them “owned” in your collection.
What we need to demand is: ownership of a license that grants perpetual access.
- We don’t want the license to expire.
- We don’t want it to change what it grants us access to after we’ve purchased it.
- We don’t want them to stop making the content available because they don’t want to host their servers anymore.
- We want the ability to play without needing an internet connection.
If all of that can be guaranteed, then the license is on par with a physical copy.
But until we have legislation forcing it to be the case, we have to assume they fully intend to take your money and one day not be willing to provide what you paid for.
Console and pc games shouldt be like tabletop games. My monopoly or Catan shouldn’t just stop working because they released Catan 2.
The sooner people stop hanging on to “physical” ( and move on to more productive conservation initiatives ) the better. Sony’s not likely to budge and frankly the medium has been dying for a while. Now DRM-free digital like gog or pirate copies still has a future I think, but relegated to a niche. I’ve been trying to picture the future landscape of gaming and I fear it’s mostly “forever games”. Both sony and ms have been pushing for live service/mobile crap ( and they still have the power to do it ) because a single mediocre skin or season pass can be as lucrative as a whole game. No need to innovate when you can make billions on slop. Take Candy Crush - it’s what, 20 years old and still brings in billions. Same for roblox, despite being known as a pedo-heaven. Games as an artform looks like an increasingly niche hobby for hipster/aging gamers, because the vast majority of people just love their slop.
It’s now time move on - hoard, archive and maybe still try and push for decent consumer protections.
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