Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/49078916
2 months
The future of gaming
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- RedFrank24@piefed.socialEnglish2 months
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.
- taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
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.
2 monthsDon’t forget that you paid a %50 deposit to reserve/pre-register your “copy” of a digital game
Pre-orders used to be to make sure you have a copy available to purchase on release day. Now there’s no point in that since there’s effectively an infinite stock since it’s a digital product. Now it’s just to get a sub-par DLC outfit that doesn’t look good with anything.
- 2 months
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.
- vane@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Your PSN account was banned because of your social network comments and you lost all of your games.
- 2 months
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.
- ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
The controller has 3 hours of battery life and the joystick drifts by default out of the box now.
- SendMePhotos@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
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.
- 2 months
It’s 2029. My Gamecube, Dreamcast, and PS2 still work just fine, thank you.
I will not be buying a PS6. Next gen will be PC (and maybe Nintendo) for me.
- Karjalan@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
I thought switch 2 games were also essentially Download only? Like you got a cartridge but it was just a means to download the game, rather than the game itself
Most non-first party ones are, though I’d be getting those on PC rather than Switch 2. And even though game key cards suck, having a tradeable license for the duration of that game’s shop server is better than having none at all.
No one is forcing you to buy the next Play Station. There are plenty of better options you can choose from.
No one is forcing you to…
You act like other manufacturers won’t follow suit in an attempt to squeeze more money out of consumers in the hunt for ever increasing profits.
Of course it will happen, but still no one is forcing you. It’s up to you to decide how much you can tolerate. At one point you have to decide that it’s enough and you wont buy anymore and if it means you can’t participate in that hobby then yes you wont participate in it and find a new hobby.
The meme is accurate, but it still is a luxury product and quitting it is always an option.
I’ve quit multiple things just because the price rose over some predetermined limit.
As a PC gamer, I just cannot understand the level of overreacting happening about discs no longer being provided.
Oh no! Not the optical media!
- nightlily@leminal.spaceEnglish2 months
Consoles have exclusive digital marketplaces for their games. At least physical games provided a veil of competition. I don’t particularly like that PC games are effectively digital only now but I can still choose where I buy my game I don’t really own.
- Spice Hoarder@lemmy.zipEnglish2 months
Because when your ToS states you’re purchasing a license to play the game instead of the actual game itself, physical media becomes important.
What can you do if your favorite game is removed from your account? You have the option to pirate it. But console owners don’t without jailbreaking. Which gets harder and harder each generation.
Furthermore, ToS can be changed at any time, and the fines Sony will pay for a ToS violation doesn’t give you your game back. So a physical disk is a way to avoid random ToS changes.
The reason why you don’t (usually) see content completely removed from PC is because they know you can and will just pirate it if they take it away from you.
- VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish2 months
The root issue for me is Sony has deleted content you bought. That’s a big fuck you.
Valve has not. They unlist, but you can always get it.
- tea@lemmy.todayEnglish2 months
While Valve is objectively better and more insulated from anti-consumer policies as a privately held company with good ownership…
I still have reservations about having my eggs in one basket with Valve, though I have a substantial Steam library. Someday Gabe will retire and/or the competition will stop shooting itself in the foot. As a result, the current customer friendly behavior may shift and then all bets are off.
If that were to come to pass, I think we’d see a huge jump in 🏴☠️ 🦜
You ever get tired of companies continual slide towards anti consumer practices? Or do you just enjoy taking it?
what continual slide towards anti-consumer practices?
Steam is WAY better than DVD’s and physical media just like Spotify is WAY better than CD’s and tape cassettes
Not all of us live in the 90’s and can remember how shit those media formats are
Steam is one company and is the exception to the rule. Steam also can’t run on consoles and not everyone wants to build a PC, has the time, or the know how. Plus with part prices these days building something may be too costly. Gotta consider the average consumer, and I have the feeling that the kind of person who uses federated social media is more technically aware than most.
