Anonymous #1 7w

Literally time to go into pc and keep all the old games from the early years

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Anonymous #2 7w

That can be wiped and you can’t come back from that

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Anonymous #3 7w

Literally 🤦🏾‍♀️

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Sounds like a win

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Anonymous OP 7w

Lmao I’ve never seen someone (#2) be so openly uncalled-for disagreeable. Wild

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Anonymous #6 7w

I’m sorry 😞. I just don’t understand the issue if I’m still able to play my games

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Anonymous #2 7w

What happens if the game gets delisted? How will people ever be able to play it again?

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Anonymous #1 7w

I like to think about the Nintendo Wii/DS and how the E-Shop is discontinued on those consoles and now the only way to play some of those games (other than 🏴‍☠️ which is totally valid) is finding the physical copy of those games. Imagine if there were no physical copies of those games to begin with. They’d be a total loss.

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Anonymous #4 7w

That’s a great way to look at it, thank you

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Anonymous #2 7w

The issue is what if they decide to take down a game you love because some group claimed it was too violent? What if they want to convince you to buy a new console, so they stop games from working on the old one? Maybe they’ll feel like the can fix games any time, and put out something super unfinished. Physical media holds companies accountable, and gives power to the consumers, which the companies are trying to take away

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Anonymous OP 7w

Even with discs, ever since PS4 and Xbox One generation of consoles discs were just buying the license to a game, they could still do this

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Anonymous #9 7w

literally not true. if you had a console that was never connected to the internet at all, you could still load up a disk and play a game.

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Anonymous #3 7w

no, you can not

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Anonymous #9 7w

okay give an example. there's a group called Does It Play? that has catalogued hundreds of games and how they function off the disk, the majority of non-multiplayer only games work fine.

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Anonymous #2 7w

They literally just removed access to 500 different movies people pitches in the PlayStation store. They can very easily do the same with games.

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Anonymous #3 7w

Why marvel rivals releasing did more to help overwatch than the community

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Anonymous #13 7w

Tbh valid as an OW player I just started playing again bc it is better

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Anonymous #15 7w

Hey, when you’re unable to play games because they terminated licensure or what not, that’s on you. I’ll stick to disc as long as I can.

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Anonymous #15 7w

People have blu-rays of the criterion collection. How is that different from physical copies of games? Do you think both are cringe?

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Anonymous #8 7w

When has that ever happened to a game that matters? Yall must not have PCs because PC has been practically digital only for over a decade now. Multiplayer games die all the time. There are hundreds of thousands of games and hundreds of new games come out each year. You will never see me cry over one lost game out of millions but I’m also not a cry baby 😂

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Anonymous #1 7w

Having physical movies aren’t cringe just ugly and objectively a waste of space. Unless you’re craving to play a game from 2002 on a CRT for an hour and then never touch it again for 5 years it’s really not worth it.

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Anonymous #1 7w

Then you move on with your life and play and of the other hundreds of thousands of games that exist

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Anonymous #1 7w

The fuck am I getting downvoted for?

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Anonymous #15 7w

Let’s all just settle for goat simulator when the licenses for other games disappear

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Anonymous #3 7w

Your both right and wrong it does require internet to confirm licensing, which the disk is the license so it’s kinda bs to begin with, but it does require internet to make the confirmation and begin the copy process

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Anonymous #6 7w

give an example. name a game.

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Anonymous #15 7w

Imagine this, because PlayStation has shitty security and customer service, your account with 100+ digital games gets hacked and banned and you end up losing all of your games. Thats a lot of money lost man. With physical copies of games, if you one day lose access to your main account, at least you still have access to your games because physical games are not linked to a login.

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Anonymous #1 7w

Xbox is doing pretty well with the new ceo imo,PlayStation has literally no edge except for exclusives

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Anonymous #19 7w

don't worry, Microsoft will announce 5000 layoffs and close a half dozen studios. they never let Sony fuck up without one-upping them

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Anonymous #4 7w

I’m not going to imagine something that will literally never happen as justification for crying over something that doesn’t matter

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Anonymous #15 7w

you think no one gets their accounts stolen? it happens all the time

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Anonymous #3 7w

They get restored all the time unless you can’t prove you owned the account. And “all the time” is extremely generous. Not even 1% of all players have had their account taken from them and you know that’s true. You’re more likely to scratch a disk than you are to have your account completely stolen and un restored.

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Anonymous #15 7w

even if you weren't pulling those numbers out of your ass, a scratched disk is at most a $70 loss and a lost account is basically guaranteed to be quite a lot more than that. not comparable.

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Anonymous #3 7w

You’re pulling up the most unlikely scenario that will literally never happen to you or me so it seemed fair.

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Anonymous #15 7w

alright man whatever. your corporate dickriding all through this thread is insane. not going to argue with you anymore, enjoy the objectively worse world you're cheering on

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Anonymous #15 7w

my account was stolen took me 4 months to get it back. i lost my gamertag aswell

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Anonymous onurmind365 7w

You got it back, case in point. You did not lose your game library forever or any of your games. But that is really rare, people don’t just “hack” random peoples accounts for no reason out of nowhere. Stronger passwords are needed to protect any account online gaming or otherwise. All game platforms also have two factor authentication. It’s really possible to never have it happen to you ever.

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Anonymous #16 7w

I don’t think you get it, It’s not abt the games. Has backwards compatibility largely been discontinued? Yes. Have leases been discontinued? Yes. But It’s the older gaming systems & OS. What’s the pt. In quantizing new products if the older 1’s are still usable?

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Anonymous #3 6w

4800 employees and 4 studios. pretty close!

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Anonymous #3 6w

All for the goal of increasing shareholder value

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