Alright, you guys. Real talk:
Delete your PlayStation account. Keep your PS5 and exclusively buy discs. Once that console breaks and can't be repaired, fuck it. Don't get the PS6.
From now on, only buy games you own. Steam doesn't count. GOG is a great starting point. Piracy is also a valid alternative.
it's perfect (the meme)
I want a digital licensed copy. I mean for movies it would be extremely cool, if we could have a drive, where you could download bought movies on but not copy off of. Then you would own a copy on this drive to be watched. Maybe you could even exchange titles from drive to drive but it is encrypted with its own operating system, so that you cannot copy it off of the drive only move it from licensed drive to licensed drive, if there is an exchange interest. By that I don't have unnecessary bulky DVDs or CDs but at the same time an owned copy that could last endlessly... but companies prefer people to log in and stream or have a game only through the steam log in...
What people are going to do about this? If you don't boycott or protest in a way that will effect the companies in large scale, you will get a download code. Same thing goes for switch 2, that people complained and still bought, and this goes for any gaming device or not. Call me crazy, call clown, call me communist, but people should cut them off, stop, stop buying, its your voice, our voice, we pay and the do hear us.
Bingo, I stopped spending money on Nintendo shit, I stopped paying for Spotify, Netflix etc etc. When they do anti consumer shit, otherwise, what's the point? It just keeps getting worse and worse, because they still see record profits.
Boycotting doesn't work. The masses don't care. All it can do is make your own life better (which, don't get me wrong, I'm all for).
Boycotting absolutely works, it simply requires a large enough amount of consumers to boycott that it affects the company's bottom line more than they stand to gain by following through with the reason folks are boycotting.
Honest question: Has anyone invented or proposed a DRM system that would actually meet the needs of both media producers and consumers? We know they can prevent that mass dissemination of media to protect producers/artists/etc., but those DRM methods always have some major drawbacks for consumers and ultimately make the product unusable after a certain period of time or have incredibly annoying restrictions. I can't quite wrap my mind around how you could have both, but I also haven't put a lot of time into thinking about it.
No, because it doesn't exist. If one person can view, hear, experience a form of media then unless it's somehow fed directly into their brain in a way that ensures only they can decode the signal then it's always going to be possible to record and copy.
As long as the visual, aural, and other necessary data for the media experience are being transmitted through physical space to be picked up by human sensory organs you're always going to be able to copy those things.
Completely true. Even with games where you’re talking about executable code, the best option seems to involve licensing servers and you can’t use them if you’re offline or they shut the servers down.
Wow. This three decade old movie is perfect for our times.
No, it's perfect for the mid 90s. It's just that the sort of experience it depicted hasn't really changed since then.
A movie about a white dude with no real problems who goes on a violent rampage, including assaults against ethnic minorities? Speak for yourself.
Yeah that's not really what the film is about though is it
It's not?
He straight up murders a Neo Nazi so I wouldn’t make that argument. It’s simply about a guy who’s going through a downward spiral and mental breakdown (he has problems…); who is longing for a time which no longer exists in his life. It just gets more and more crazy as the film progresses to parody like you would see in a Naked Gun movie or something.
He straight up murders a Neo Nazi
Otherwise it would be too obvious.
In the words of Ebert:
Some will even find it racist because the targets of the film's hero are African-American, Latino and Korean - with a few whites thrown in for balance.
Btw, the scene with the Korean grocer must be held against the 1992 Los Angeles riots having happened just a year earlier where Korean-Americans were often targeted.
It’s simply about a guy who’s going through a downward spiral and mental breakdown (he has problems…); who is longing for a time which no longer exists in his life.
NO other group of people could have such a movie made about them without it suffering a barrage of critique for its obviously hateful plot.
Edit: not that the creeps in Hollywood would ever allow such a movie but whatever.
It's not about a white guy attacking minorities. It's just about a guy sick of spending every moment grinding to merely exist with no real time for pleasure in a world running only for profit and not people, who just can't take it any more. If you're looking at skin color, you're missing the point. He's all of us. We're all stuck in it. Many feeling the same way.
If you’re looking at skin color, you’re missing the point.
Nah. Cause once again, such a film would NEVER be allowed to feature anything but a white male as a protagonist.
Seems like you only watch your established type of American films and think that's all the world has to offer.
What are some movies like Falling Down with protagonists of other ethnicities/genders?
(Holds up a mirror.)
Look, I'm not saying the choices made in the making of the film were all good. There was some obvious bias there, but that was (& honestly mostly still is) an artifact of who provides the funding to make most Hollywood films. We have a long legacy wherein rich, bigoted white assholes run most everything, and they're control freaks who demand their preferred POV be used. Whether & which of those involved in the making of the film are of the same mindset, I cannot say.
I see the film as a relatively early critique of the enshitification of our society by those same assholes, and so that it got made at all is a minor miracle. Potential compromises in the integrity of those involved in getting it done are easy to pick at roughly 35 years after the fact, but - while the racism is kinda blatant - I don't think it should invalidate the entire message the movie was trying to convey.
Leave us alone we're old
Yes, we are.
Too based for today industry, it only wold be done in a more naive times.
Here’s a disk that will trigger a download, how’s that sound
That's honestly the only solution with the size of these games. Yeah, old games used to come on multiple discs you'd swap when you reached the next chapter or whatever, but even that isn't practical these days with the amount of resources that need to be loaded into and out of RAM at any given time.
Sort of the joke of all this. I remember the Good Ole Days of installing a Blizzard game and then getting a gigabyte or more of Day One updates before I could start playing.
Good enough, at least it can be traded and sold!
Until they decide your unique disc ID is tied to your account and you have to sell your entire account to someone to sell the game
In that case it'd be the same as a digital version, but with the added inconvenience of having to put the disc in.
Mate. So many disks I got with games since assassin's creed black flag were corrupt and required a download anyway, or required an online login and forced update to be able to play, making offline use of the physical media impossible. And when they decide to stop supporting the game, online servers are shut down and the physical disk is nothing more than a beer coaster. Even when you purchase a physical game you need to register in Steam or any other gaming platform, you still just bought the rights to play their game instead of owning the game. When they don't rant you to have these rights anymore, they can remove the game from your library whenever they want. Again, disk is just a coaster. Even physical products are not really your ownership. BMW hiding car features ON YOUR CAR behind a paywall, phone companies selling you the right to use their phone with their service, bloatware and restrictions on there. A fridge YOU BOUGHT which stops working if you do not update or have it constantly online, which uploads gigabytes of your data daily, which force shows ads. Like, what the fuck. You don't own shit anymore, even if you paid for a physical product.
Discs for PlayStation and Xbox are able to be traded or bought used. You can bring them to a friend's house and play on their console. No discs means that is no longer possible. That's what people are upset about.
I thought Sony wanted to link disc codes to accounts, so resale won't be possible anymore. Microsoft also wanted to change things so sharing and resale can't happen.
What, you don’t want your Nintendo cartridge key? Which gives you permission to download the thing you already bought to have a physical copy of in case Nintendo servers go down at any point???
A physical disk with code.txt you say?
IIRC, on Xbox One and newer, the physical disc open the store and starts a download there. You have to do that with an internet connection and then disconnect to make the disc to disc things (by copying from the disc instead of the interwebs). And then connect back for the update.
Me: "One game please."
Retail Salesperson: "Here's a QR code to download the game."
Me: "If I didn't want physical media, I could get it without your QR code."
Retail Salesperson: "How would you manage that?"
Me: 🏴☠️
"$80?
In 2007 it was $50, then $60.
grabs baseball bat
Let's slash prices back to the 1995 Sears catalog. Link to the Past. Price..."
...ss..sixty dollars!
"...bullshit"
no, really, look
"No, that's... what?!"
Link to the Past was on a cartridge which was more expensive to manufacture. Look at PS1 and other games that came on CD. Now they don't even have to pay to manufacture discs and keep them stocks in physical stores. Also compare how small the market was compared to now. Compare how the entire game was on the disc instead of being sold in pieces.
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