Legislation should force all digital marketplaces to allow selling and gifting purchased media without a middleman taking a cut.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2026
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Bad take. They'll give you an install disc and then make you enter an account locked code to access it anyway.
Demand digital rights instead, before a big player goes bust. Because at some point that will happen, and you'll lose more than a handful of discs.
Fun fact! PlayStation Plus, Xbox Live, and Nintendo Online subscriptions go directly to them and none of that supports the server costs game developers have to pay to host online games. This is why most online games are forced into the games-as-a-service model, which makes zero sense to me as a game developer. It's also why most indie games do not bother to add online multiplayer support as it's far to expensive to pay for server hosting, let alone the cost of development.
Cannot wait until Sony comes out with a study that shows 100% of gamers ( a small handful of people guaranteed not to care about pjydical media ) don't want it so they can gaslight tge general public into thinking nobody wants it.
As long as you still have tens of millions of people pre-ordering GTA6, nothing is going to change. People bitch and whine but they keep eating the slop.
Will they boycott?
I already did. If i cant find it on PC at a reasonable price the high seas will provide.
DRM is the issue not physical. No drm means I can just keep replicating my product when physical fails
Removing options is an issue
Yeah that's my problem with it as well. People keep going "but steam does the same thing" but with steam I actually have the install on my computer, a computer which valve does not control and they cannot take things off me after the fact.
I believe you are thinking of GoG, not Steam.
Yesnt. Steam can absolutely remote remove your library.
They never did and probably won't do it. But they could
They can take a game off sale but they can't take something from me that I've already downloaded.
In most European countries yes. They can't legally. But they can technically.
How can they do that? I'm curious
You agreed to it in the TOS
Damn dude, thanks for the insight
The opposite of "digital" is "analogue". Disks are just as digital as data downloaded from the internet.
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My backlog is big enough and I'm old enough that I don't see a need to buy a new game for a long time.
Fight the establishment by getting kids addicted to old games.
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wont this just push people to getting steam/valve
Yeah the big advantage of disc is Sony can't randomly take it away. And given the fact that they have literally just done that with a bunch of movies it's kind of a problem.
It would be trivial to add online only drm with a killswitch to physical media. If that's the problem, discs aren't the solution. What we actually need is legal protection for consumers.
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"Gamers push back." Just like they pushed back against $70 and $80 games by lining up around the block to buy a Switch 2 so they could buy $70 and $80 games to play on it. Like Rockstar will make a mint selling $100 copies of GTA6.
I suppose if any game is worth $100 it'll probably be a game from Rockstar. Personally I'm waiting for reviews since there's literally no point pre-ordering.
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I have sold my PS4 after what I felt an unjust price hike for PSN and built a pc, didn't buy a console since
I quit shortly after the PS3...
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