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Guess I’m throwing my PS5 out the window and going to PC. This war on physical media is ridiculous. Pretty soon they’re going to require us to buy the console b
by pryelluw 3mo ago
Guess I’m throwing my PS5 out the window and going to PC. This war on physical media is ridiculous. Pretty soon they’re going to require us to buy the console but rent the controllers for the very low price of $79.99 a month.
- kaishin 3mo agoTo solve what exactly? Sure you will punish Sony but that won't bring optical media back. We need to accept and move on with the times.
- Nekorosu 3mo agoIt is still possible to actually buy PC games, not rent them.
- ludamn 3mo ago[dead]
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- functionmouse 3mo agosteam games don't have discs either the real problem here isn't lack of plastic circles
- callamdelaney 3mo agoValve have shown themselves to be reasonably trustworthy unlike say, Sony and Microsoft. If there are no disks then there is no point in consoles in my view, they're just worse computers.
- mghackerlady 3mo agoplus, nothings stopping you from distributing a physical PC game. Heck, iirc steam still supports it. Even if it didn't, you could still buy a physical PC anyway since they can just have an exe, flatpak/snap/appimage, or dmg
- tapoxi 3mo agoSteam only exists because Valve forced players to install it, force an online activation, and permanently bind their retail copies of Half-Life 2 to a Steam account. They also forced patching which meant in an era of dialup you couldn't play your single player game for hours, and needed to be connected every 30 days or your game would stop working. None of the console manufacturers pulled that shit, that Valve gets a pass is wild to me.
- amlib 3mo agoThey are the only platform owners championing for an open platform. That should be enough to consider them above all others, no trust required.
- account42 3mo agoAnd "open" platform where they get a 30% cut.
- amlib 3mo agoI mean the devices where steam operates are fully open, even the ones valve makes. You can install any OS you wish, any software or competing store front and thus give them 0% cut. You wouldn't complain that Walmart takes a X% cut when you have a healthy competitive market and can chose other store fronts with better prices.
- asimovDev 3mo agoOn PC you can fight this by buying from GOG DRM-free digital storefront or the second more sinister option
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 3mo agoGog might consider linux more, which will make me reconsider it. I stopped buying from them because the lack of linux support
- pryelluw 3mo agoCan’t I back them to physical media?
- henriquecm8 3mo agoYeah, but games get bigger and more frequent discounts on pc, besides the base game price for a lot of games sometimes decreased after some years. I have a PC and PS5, and bought game for PS5 just because they were on disk, despite that they would've ran and look much better on my pc. Sony is releasing like 2 single-player games a year, I might get a PS6, but I'll be in not rush with so little offering, anything else I'll get on PC.
- overfeed 3mo ago> steam games don't have discs either Disc > Steam > Digital console Steam games exist on physical media that players have some control over: I can copy my Steam data directory across PCs/Steam Deck, I would not be able to do that on a PlayStation. Sure, I can't resell my Steam games, but the openness of the PC platform has advantages over closed consoles. Valve can't brick old games the way Sony can - a new computer in 2046 will be able to play single-player games backed-up from Steam, not so much for consoles.
- gdulli 3mo agoSteam normalized the loss of resale rights on PC long before the consoles caught up. Younger people don't even realize it's a right that prior generations gave up.
- alightsoul 3mo agoand yet, Steam is seen as the superior service that deserves to keep their monopoly.
- nottorp 3mo agoThe thing with Steam is that it's more convenient than piratebay, but for the collector in you, piratebay is still there for insurance. Not to mention whatever's available on GoG where you don't even need a crack to make backups. With Sony you have no insurance.
- callamdelaney 3mo agoSteam isn't a monopoly, it's just a good service. Why would I use a shittier one created by, generally, extremely greedy and woke corporations?
- Larrikin 3mo agoWhat do you mean woke corporations? How does that affect you?
- callamdelaney 3mo agoBy politicizing games, ruining them with their agenda, and in a hundred other ways.
- 0x457 3mo agoYou have to be very dense to think AAA video game devs have some woke agenda and not just knee-jerk reaction to market changes. There are plenty of games for you to goon to.
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