I bought the first Queen album on vinyl. Then 8-track. Then cassette. Then compact disc. I finally pirated the digital version. I owned every piece of media that the album came on with the exception of the pirated copy (which I could have digitized from my compact disc). In not one case has a company ever came into my home and said “You have to give that back, but no refund though”. This makes no sense.
hilariously the PS1 emulated on a PC or Android is still “their” best product.
I stopped buying consoles years ago but Sony can gargle my balls with choco milk
Then their ‘Buy’ and ‘Purchase’ buttons are false advertising. ‘Rent’ is the word they’re looking for.
This excuses piracy.
And whenever I want to pay for a game, I will do it through GOG.
and this is why people pirate. You pay good money for stuff you don’t even own.
If the button said “Buy” or “Purchase”, ownership of that item is transferred (obviously not the IP itself). After you buy it, the supreme court has weighed in that you can make your own backups of “media” previously so Sony can fuck right off.
SCOTUS has endorsed the terms and conditions they make you sign and allowed them to do things like making you waive your right to sue and instead use binding arbitration of their choosing, and making you agree to not actually own this as such.
What you say was true 26 years ago or more, it’s not now. We are well on to our way of owning nothing and renting everything we own in truth even if not in law.
True, but while I have access to something I back it up by nature. They can probably take it off of something they can access but those devices don’t have access to my whole network so I’m gonna stick with my original thought, Sony can fuck right off.
(Really good points though)
Stuff like this drives the motivation behind console modders.
Remind me to pirate sony games.
Oh no, how will this affect my offline-PS3 and it’s offline games?? :o
Then, I purchase no games, which I cannot own anyway. Good riddance. I stopped gaming pretty much all the time.
This matches my experience exactly.
Aaarrrrggghhhh!
Optimistic me thinks they are bringing PS store/library to pc and this is needed. Optimistic me is barely holding on.
They aren’t. The Wall™ is being erected around PSN.
didn’t they announce they were stopping porting games to PC? I liked uncharted 4 so much :P
The small operators feel this one first, every single time.
