A storm knocked out Internet, so now you can't play any games due to Always-on DRM.
You try to watch a movie you physically own, but you didn't buy the $350 optical addon to the digital-only version of the console.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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So depressing.
Its so going to happen
already does. I had a Samsung bluray player from over a decade ago that refused to play any movies made a year after it was manufactured unless I connected it to update. it went in my kids room and plays DVDs from the local library now.
It is the one thing that grinds my gears about Steam sometimes.
This first happened to me in 2014? It's super frustrating.
It also happens with Steam. I remember forgetting to go offline before taking my gaming laptop to the woods or in airplanes, and suddenly not being able to play.
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I'm kinda old and have had a couple of Nintendos but never anything PS or Xbox. I've been a PC gamer since PC games existed.
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A classic
Indeed but I still hate when people refer to things from the 2010s as classic/retro/vintage.
I hate when people refer to things from before 1750s as classic.
The future of gaming is budget pc builds and piracy.
No, budget PCs and indies - NOT piracy.
If you base your gaming life around piracy, no one is paying for the industry. No golden parachutes for Take Two execs, but also no return on indie development - every game would be by a first time studio mortgaging their house and closing immediately after.
Do not condition people around never paying for media. You get what you pay for. And if you’re not paying, you doom yourself to pages of games full of ad-driven AI slop.
If your indie game is too expensive, i will pirate it too, if it worth it i will bought, if not i won't, very simple.
Damn, i end up buying RDR2 as i finished him pirated and fell than the game deserve it.
Some indie games, where i live are still very expensive and sometimes rhe devs already have a shitton of money like Team Cherry.
How about if a game is too expensive, you just don’t play it?
That rule forms some interesting results; sometimes, people realize they really DO want to play that game, and can stomach the high price more than they can missing out. People are not always honest with themselves about their judgment of a price. They always want it for less if possible, but may confess that a higher price is better than no product.
If you’ve ever seen the “walk away -> Wait!” style of price negotiation, that’s this - it can happen with both consumers and publishers. Also called driving a hard bargain, or haggling. Factorio dev famously called people out on their habitual approaches to sales, and I think it’s hard to say he didn’t earn his success.
Plus, on devs having lots of money: They’re often putting that money to future development. Some studios I love like Supergiant and Game Bakers had some semi-flops as they tried new ideas. If they didn’t build savings from success stories, they’d have to close down after that. Besides, they deserve some results for their risk taking. And don’t you dare say indie development doesn’t involve risk.
If a too expensive game is available for free as pirated media, why wait ? You can at least try before buy or decide if worth it your time
- Lots of indies DO have demos. That’s what Steam Next Fest is. Many of them are generous with playtime.
- Steam has a refund policy. In the event you find you made a mistake with a purchase, you can tell support it wasn’t fun.
- People are streaming a lot of games, even indies now. Those can give you a closer idea of even the midgame.
Lastly, I’m not going to use the S word that rhymes with Peel, because a dozen pirates will dogpile on how it’s not technically the correct terminology, but you’re still breaking a societal expectation - that people interested in another person’s work will pay for access to that work. Some museums will provide a donation box, but others have you pay for entry - Because artists gotta eat, and that’s the rule. No one cares you’re not lifting the paintings out of the hall. You have interest and curiosity, so pay some dues to the people who piqued that.
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I'll keep taking my free samples and paying for what I deem worth my money
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it's 2043
523 days into the war
Found your PS6
It boots
Games won't play, requires internet
Internet has been down since the dawn of the war
Want to shoot yourself in the head
But you lost your Yubikey to unlock the safety
I'll still be playing modded consoles with free games.
Can't wait for the servers to crash cuz everyone tries downloading their copy of the game at the same time lol
Steam has been fine with this for years.
Didn't Silksong crash those servers less than a year ago from everyone downloading it? You think GTA 6 will be LESS popular?
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"They each cost 80$" is the only unrealistic part of this. I reckon it'll be higher.
Solution: Don't buy a PS6. Fuck Sony.
Okay, but how will I get the Most Cutting Of Cutting Edge Graphis with Ray Dicking And Light Emulsifying and Video To Smell Technology?!
Everything that isn't on 64k resolution video is basically unplayable.
Your PSN account was banned because of your social network comments and you lost all of your games.
Notification: Your Social Credit System has been reduced 2 points for posting unfavorable comments on social media. This reduces your Social Credit status from Deviant to Dissident. Your gaming and social media accounts have been temporarily suspended. You must take a mandatory course on Pro-USA affairs at your local Government Community Education center to learn how to be a better Citizen™. Your primary bank account has been charged the tuition fee of $499.99, plus $10 convenience fee, plus $10 Sony Convenience processing charge.
Alert! Your bank account has been overdrawn by a sum of $19.38. You are charged a nominal Overdraft Protection fee of $50, an overdraft interest convenience fee of $10, and a processing fee of $15.
Notification: Your Social Credit System score has been reduced 1 point due to Financial Bank Overdraft.
It's 2060
All consoles are digital-only, legally-required to verify your identity, and locked-down
But Linux still exists! In adapting, it's now hyper-optimized for thin-client corporate workstation terminals, the only computers still made. Distributions are shared via illegal mesh networks or person-to-person on physical media
Gamers can simulate operating a "grocery store", something that used to exist back before the States collapsed
legally-required to verify your identity
UK has pushing that stuff for over a year.
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$80 is 2026 prices. It is going to be $100 at least.
Perhaps if people stopped buying those shitty anti-consumer consoles, but people never change, and after all, "iTs jUsT A GAme bRo ahaha" - player that bought fifa every year for the full price
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The controller has 3 hours of battery life and the joystick drifts by default out of the box now.
You can buy the premium subscription to ensure that feature remains disabled.
5 bucks per joystick calibration. 8 for both.
The left comes misaligned out of the box, the right drifts after two weeks.
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You have 4 in your library, but only 1 is installed; it's Call of Duty. Since there's no need for physical media anymore, the footprint of games has ballooned to the point where if you want to install CoD, it's going to cost you 2TB of storage. They threw in 8k textures just for the 0.0001% of players that actually have an 8k TV, and there are a lot of textures since the Big Chungus update which introduced 255 different coloured Chungus textures for every weapon and weapon attachment combination in the game.
They also animated each one in a strange uncompressed video format instead of using effects over them. They are not optional, even though 95% are from optional dlcs you don't own.
They also drop the FPS to half of what it was before, which the upcoming PS6 Pro is said to handle better (it'll not actually handle it much better). With the upcoming Pro console they have removed the 2tb version of the PS6, and it has no expandable storage so you can't even play any games on the PS6 if you buy it from this point forwards.
It's 2029. My Gamecube, Dreamcast, and PS2 still work just fine, thank you.
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Don't forget fucking Secure Boot! Locked me out of one of my favorite games, Battlefield 1, all in the name of "anti-cheat"!
Fuck that noise
Don't forget that you paid a %50 deposit to reserve/pre-register your "copy" of a digital game
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