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It's not about physical vs digital games, it's about ownership (popcar.bearblog.dev)
submitted 2 weeks ago by popcar2@piefed.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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I made a new blog post giving my thoughts on PlayStation not making disks anymore, and the arguments around it.

I personally don't think most people care about physically owning media (and some people even suggested PC should start going back to physical). It's more about digitally owning your games.

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Very easily, in fact! Steam doesn’t apply a hard DRM for games on their platform, you can bypass it and play your games offline without the launcher if you know what you’re doing.

This isn't a good point, how many people do you think remove the steam dependency from their games?

[-] who@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

This isn’t a good point, how many people do you think remove the steam dependency from their games?

Not many, because Steam hasn't given them a reason to. That's not the point.

The point is that if Steam ever does shut down or start revoking games, people can keep playing them without it.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

If Sony ever shuts down or starts revoking games/media you can also strip the copy protection off of it and continue using it just the same.

[-] who@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Where are the instructions for doing this?

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

https://www.psx-place.com/forums/ps5-jailbreak-hacks.242/

Look through here. Spoiler the actual copy protection removal is kept secret by people who do it.

[-] who@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Spoiler the actual copy protection removal is kept secret by people who do it.

Indeed. My point is that the PlayStation situation is not comparable to what we can do with Steam games, where it's all out in the open, with multiple independent implementations, at least one of which is open-source and multi-platform.

(I'm glad there are people working on PS5 hacks, though.)

[-] warm@kbin.earth 5 points 2 weeks ago

Steam also doesnt force DRM, it's developers/publishers deciding to use it in the first place.

You'd only need Steam DRM for your game if you want to use any features like Steam multiplayer, workshop etc.

So while it's easy to bypass, most games dont even need it in the first place.

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