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Re: PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

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Post by red_admiral »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #17

And consumers will cry about it for about 5 minutes, then go back to reward the company. When HP started making printer cartridges that expired even when they were still full, people complained—then bought more. When Microsoft let the web stagnate with IE6, people complained, then turned around and did the same thing with Chrome. When Apple deliberately put a bug in the iPhone that caused the Home button to fail, pus…

The Sony one led to legal action and penalties. Also Microsoft themselves released an update that kicked the rootkit out.

Re: PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

#52

Post by NekkoDroid »

galleywest200 wrote: post #50
0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Beat me to it. I am still incredibly salty about losing my “lifetime” license to Minecraft. I really am curious to see some of the changes that have happened since I last played (when still owned by Notch), but I refuse to repurchase it.

> I am still incredibly salty about losing my “lifetime” license to Minecraft. I kept my Minecraft license after migrating to a Microsoft account. Unsure how it got messed up for you.

> Unsure how it got messed up for you.

If you didn't transfer it from your Mojang account to your Microsoft account in time (before the account was shut down) you just straight up lost access to it.

Re: PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

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Post by [deleted] »

galleywest200 wrote: post #50
0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Beat me to it. I am still incredibly salty about losing my “lifetime” license to Minecraft. I really am curious to see some of the changes that have happened since I last played (when still owned by Notch), but I refuse to repurchase it.

> I am still incredibly salty about losing my “lifetime” license to Minecraft. I kept my Minecraft license after migrating to a Microsoft account. Unsure how it got messed up for you.

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Re: PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #44
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #17

And consumers will cry about it for about 5 minutes, then go back to reward the company. When HP started making printer cartridges that expired even when they were still full, people complained—then bought more. When Microsoft let the web stagnate with IE6, people complained, then turned around and did the same thing with Chrome. When Apple deliberately put a bug in the iPhone that caused the Home button to fail, pus…

When Apple deliberately put a bug in the iPhone that caused the Home button to fail, pushing people to buy the next model, people got upset—and then bought the next one anyway. I'm amazed nobody remembers that one; it was such a huge deal at the time. And there is not a single link to articles about it anymore. That one, I don't remember either. Are you sure you aren't confusing it with Batterygate? But yes: point ta…

Oh no, I remember well. At some point, everyone at the software home button on their phone setup, because the physical button was sometimes working and sometimes not.

Apple issued a statement saying it was a hardware failure and there was nothing they could do.

A hacker later on proved they were lying by patching the software and showing the problem went away.

That's why I'm scrapbooking every article about the trump administration right now. This time period is so wild people will doubt it really existed.

I will not be gaslighted again. This world is crazy, and people have a terrible memory.

Re: PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

red_admiral wrote: post #51
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #17

And consumers will cry about it for about 5 minutes, then go back to reward the company. When HP started making printer cartridges that expired even when they were still full, people complained—then bought more. When Microsoft let the web stagnate with IE6, people complained, then turned around and did the same thing with Chrome. When Apple deliberately put a bug in the iPhone that caused the Home button to fail, pus…

The Sony one led to legal action and penalties. Also Microsoft themselves released an update that kicked the rootkit out.

If illegal actions are just reverted and compensated by a fine, then they are just legal for a fee

Re: PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

handoflixue wrote: post #43
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #17

And consumers will cry about it for about 5 minutes, then go back to reward the company. When HP started making printer cartridges that expired even when they were still full, people complained—then bought more. When Microsoft let the web stagnate with IE6, people complained, then turned around and did the same thing with Chrome. When Apple deliberately put a bug in the iPhone that caused the Home button to fail, pus…

Switch to Brother laser jet printers - I hear about them every time HP comes up, I've had mine for years, it is a lovely solution Tons of people switched from IE6 to Chrome; IE is a dead browser. These days I'd recommend Firefox. Is there something wrong with the iPhone as of today? It sounds like the bug got fixed in response to outcry, especially if they went and scrubbed all traces of the event - that seems like a…

I did, but that doesn't change AT ALL my initial point.

People still buy HP printers.

It's still a popular brand.

Re: PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

#57

Post by thewebguyd »

homeslice69 wrote: post #15

While Microsoft may not be as bad on this as Sony so far, they have certainly shown a willingness to revoke access to digital games. For example- in an effort to push users to the newer fifa titles with microtransactions, they quietly removed the ability to redownload purchased digital copies of older fifa games. For anyone who might've temporarily uninstalled the game to free up space, there was suddenly no way to g…

That's almost certainly due to EA's licensing agreement with FIFA rather than Microsoft's decision. Similar to how you can no longer purchase older Forza games due to the licensing for use of the cars expiring.

Re: PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

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Post by user2722 »

PaulHoule wrote: post #24
echelon wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huge capital overhead. Exhausting mid-lifecycle crunch that makes or breaks the next gen. Multiple giants. Meanwhile Steam just casually absorbing everything. It doesn't matter that it's porous. And now suddenly - hardware costs you can't tip toe schedule around. The console business is shitty.

Talk to console gamers and they still think the PC is sweaty and playing on the PC is like putting your hands in the toilet. I mean, I remember the 1990s when kids were playing flight simulators with this huge plastic joysticks that were always falling apart and needed to be calibrated every five minutes. It's not like that anymore, with Steam Big Picture and either an XBOX ONE or PS4/5 controller your PC is a better…

Meanwhile to play PS5 games like TMNT you can't use PS4 controllers. This is not a customer focused approach.

Re: PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

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Post by flaunf221 »

PaulHoule wrote: post #24
echelon wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huge capital overhead. Exhausting mid-lifecycle crunch that makes or breaks the next gen. Multiple giants. Meanwhile Steam just casually absorbing everything. It doesn't matter that it's porous. And now suddenly - hardware costs you can't tip toe schedule around. The console business is shitty.

Talk to console gamers and they still think the PC is sweaty and playing on the PC is like putting your hands in the toilet. I mean, I remember the 1990s when kids were playing flight simulators with this huge plastic joysticks that were always falling apart and needed to be calibrated every five minutes. It's not like that anymore, with Steam Big Picture and either an XBOX ONE or PS4/5 controller your PC is a better…

> ex. the Steam Controller, nobody can make a decent game controller except for console vendors

Reading this feels feels like you are the one that is still in 1990s.

Third party controllers have long surpassed the ones from console vendors. Standard console controllers still continue to use potentiometers for sticks. Even pro versions that cost over a hundred euro still use them.

Re: PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)

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Post by thibaut_barrere »

NekkoDroid wrote: post #52
galleywest200 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I am still incredibly salty about losing my “lifetime” license to Minecraft. I kept my Minecraft license after migrating to a Microsoft account. Unsure how it got messed up for you.

> Unsure how it got messed up for you. If you didn't transfer it from your Mojang account to your Microsoft account in time (before the account was shut down) you just straight up lost access to it.

And sometimes, like in Sharepoint, the process could not be completed.
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