So don't buy a fucking Playstation.
This isn't that hard to sort out.
I stopped when they fucked me on my PS3, update and lose linux ability or don't update and lose netflix and any online purchased games.
And that's were i left console for PC
Do not worry, Sony is not at all known for taking away from people digital media which they keep in their servers for those people
/s (just in case)
Cool. If thats the case I will no longer be offering Playstation my money for games.
Play station will no longer be offering games- Yup still no 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.
They're often cheaper on disc. Random sales here and there nearly always undercut the PSN price.
The real reason I've not bought many this gen was PS Plus. There's a lot of games I'd have been vaguely interested in picking up on a decent sale, only they've never been on one, and then went on PS Plus so now aren't worth buying at all.
Realistically the loss of physical discs means we need far more robust digital rights. The right to trade games to other accounts. The right to continue playing them if the store closes, loading games and licence keys from USB etc. That last one is going to need some thought to prevent abuse, but I think it's essential if we're going to live in a digital future. On PC that last one could be done by transferring licenses to another store maybe.
It should still matter to you, unless you don't mind paying $80 for every game. The competition of physical game pricing and the secondhand market helps keep digital prices lower as well.
3 years? About 15 years for me. Whenever civ 5 was released.
Honestly, if I have to go digital, my money is going to Valve
Better to Gog, atleast you own what you buy
Stop spreading this lie.
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-GOG-User-Agreement?product=gog
2.1 We give you and other GOG users the personal right (known legally as a 'license') to use GOG services and to download, access and/or stream (depending on the content) and use GOG content. This license is for your personal use. We can stop or suspend this license in some situations, which are explained later on.
This refers to downloading, after you donwload the DRM Free Game from Gog there is no license or online check forever, the game is just yours.
You can also do that on Steam, that doesn't make it any less piracy.
Not that there is anything wrong with that, but let's stop pretending that GOG is somehow better than Steam.
Not reliably as in Steam there is no contractual limitation on games having their own phone-home DRM plus some games are tightly integrated with Steam features (which Steam incentivizes) and don't work well offline, plus you need to known were the installers are cached as you can't just download them to a location of your choice and how to use stuff like the Goldberg Emulator otherwise only games which have ZERO integration with Steam will fully install and run offline.
In GOG, access to download the offline installers is right there in the product page in your library and contractually the games can't have any DRM as "No DRM" is GOG's unique value proposition as a games store.
Steam doesn't make it too hard to go around the phone-home DRM they put in place (making it better than just about all other phone-home DRM out there) but that's not at all the same as "here are the installers for you to use whenever you want online or offline and they're guaranteed to have no DRM".
Nobody is saying you cannot do on Steam, the big difference is that you can do that on 100% of Gog games, on Steam only on a very small percentage.
And there are other noticeable difference, on Steam you have to go through the file and backup them, on Gog you get the drm free installer for the last version of the game and any previous version that you want.
Is clear to me that on this regard Gog is much better than Steam, would be crazy to say otherwise.
Actually, FYI, you can do that for a large percentage of Steam games, maybe even most, if you use the Goldberg Emulator that replaces the steamapi DLL.
Steam DRM is one of the easiest to bypass around, and I like to think that's very much a purposeful choice.
However, the entire thing is designed for it not to be easy to do for somebody with the technical know-how of the average gamer, plus it's not reliably possible and there's no way to know upfront if it will work or not when making a purchasing decision on a game in Steam.
Meanwhile "No DRM and with downloadable Offline Installers" is literally the Unique Value Proposition of GOG as a games store - access to download offline installers is there in the games page after purchase and that installer is guaranteed to work forever and ever if you still have the hardware and OS version supported by the game.
Fun fact: Some Steam games are also DRM-free
Valve and GOG.
GOG - the ones who recently sent out a newsletter ad with Nazi symbols on it? That GOG?
Yes they were using AI assisted headers for their emails because they were short staffed for a bank holiday in their country.
Which is Poland btw. Famously extremely anti Nazi.
They apologized and explained what happened so I am not going to hold it against them. Now had they not apologized or had an explanation, that would be different.
If anything its a good case study on why AI is only good for very limited use cases and almost never to replace an actual human being
You know they're polish right? The ones that were attacked by the nazis?
Context is everything.
Can you think logically instead of making misinformed emotional statements?
This is FUD, stop spreading this. Read their statement and chill the fuck out.
It's a big, fat, nothingburger.
Did not hear that. Do u have a link?
Read their statement instead, it's all a big nothingburger.
They are gonna remove games in future like they did with the movies
If they could be trusted to treat digital copies as actual ownership, this wouldn't be such a big deal.
At this rate why sell hardware to people anymore? Might as well rip the bandaid and make it a cloud-gaming device.
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