I will no longer be offering money to receive playstation games. 🤷♂️
I’d feel more strongly about this if I’d actually bought a game on a physical disc anytime in the last 3 years.
Yeah, but why not? I enjoy having access to the game within the same 10 minutes I buy it…
Now downloading, that’s a different story.
At this rate why sell hardware to people anymore? Might as well rip the bandaid and make it a cloud-gaming device.
Honestly, if I have to go digital, my money is going to Valve
Valve and GOG.
If they could be trusted to treat digital copies as actual ownership, this wouldn’t be such a big deal.
At least the digital-only playstations will be really cheap… Right?
If buying is not owning, piracy is not stealing
Stop being suckered into the system that has no respect for you or the money they steal from you.
My main problem with this is I can’t sell or trade a digital game after I’m done with it. This needs to be
feltdelt with legally.I like being able to share a disc with friends. Or get one from the library. They kill that, they’re making a hell of lot of enemies.
I feel you but I’m no lawyer.
For real, every jurisdiction needs to extend the first sale doctrine to digital media
They are gonna remove games in future like they did with the movies
They already have lol.
Licensed titles are different. Unless they’ve done that for non-licensed titles.
Kindle literally removed 1984 from people’s devices
That was a case where the seller literally didn’t have the rights to the book. If you search for the title today you’ll find a version that is listed as the Authorized Orwell Edition.
Not the same as what I was referring to. Video games based on licensed IPs, often get taken down from digital game stores because the publisher’s license has ended. What you described with 1984 is someone who shouldn’t be selling the media, having sold it. Sure, it sucks if the title disappeared from your device but maybe that was the only legal resolution?
Conveying something to someone in perpetuity (i.e. “selling” it to them) when you don’t have the right to do so is fraud. Just because Amazon or whoever’s right to continue offering the thing ended doesn’t mean their customers’ property rights somehow end with it.
It’s exactly as absurd as a car dealer stealing back all the cars they previously sold just because they ended their agreement with the manufacturer.
There is absolutely no sane world in which stealing your customers’ property could ever be the “only legal resolution!”
The proper legal resolution would be refunding the customer and then settle it between Amazon and the author that didn’t have the rights to sell what they sold. If I buy some food at the grocery store and there’s a recall due to for example contamination, I can go back to the store and get a refund. I can even go to any store selling the same item without an invoice and get a refund (for their list price I think). This is at least the deal in Denmark. This should be the same if something was sold with a missing license or improper license (if it is sold as a product but the license the seller has expires and is not renewed)
Sometimes the license for the music in games expires and developers/publishers just remove it from the games.
That, by itself, is absolutely outrageous and absurd. The game developer’s failure to license the music appropriately is between them and the music copyright holder; nothing gives them the right to steal the content back from the third parties they conveyed it to in perpetuity.
Agreed, licensing for anything like that in game should be required to be permanent. Only exception I can possibly think of is live service games where the content cycles out of availability.
I wouldn’t argue just that it should be; I would argue that it is and we have a massive problem with the FTC failing to enforce existing law.
I think it will no longer be available as an option.
Didn’t Nintendo already start doing this with the switch two?
The opposite, with Switch1 there were a bunch of games where third parties cheaped out and just put a code in a box.
Switch2 added game-key cards to replace the code-in-a-box with a license dongle in the shape of a cart.
It still requires the eshop to download the game, but it’s not tied to an account, it’s tied to the card, which can be resold or lent out.
Solves a few of the issues with digital while doing nothing for preservation.
I will be buying no more PlayStations then.
Same.
So. They have chosen death.
Oh no! Anyway…
The majority of people do not care.
Then the majority of people will get shafted. Nothing new under the sun, I guess.
Buy GameStop everyone! /s
They make most of their money from trading cards now.
The concept that not everyone has big internet or even good enough might be super strange for these C-level people.
I don’t think they care about those markets (even though they could make a lot of money out of them)
So is that market the last $1 billion still buying physical? A graph was passed around showing sales are down from an $11 billion peak in 2009 nearly 20 years ago.
I wonder how much of that last billion is Switch. I assume physical sales are higher there. But I might be way off.
