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Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them
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#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
The main thing consoles have going for them, imo, is the standardization of hardware. It's very easy to say "Yes this game will run on my console at 60 FPS because its identical to the other consoles where it runs at 60 FPS." Differing builds and drivers are not really a concern in the console world, where-as they are in the PC world. Some console gamers seem to think PC gaming requires hours of fiddling with setting…
During college, before I switched to linux, the DRM packaged with Spore bricked my computer in the middle of a semester. That's what turned me off of PC gaming.
That's unfortunate and infuriating I'm sure
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#233Yes, the chairman of StudioCanal is.
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
Consoles made sense as a product category where specialized graphics hardware was not generally available for consumer PCs. We have this now, every PC has some kind of graphics hardware, and has for many years. Consoles have been riding on their momentum of their brands , but the technical justification for their product category hasn't existed for 15+ years now.
> Consoles made sense as a product category where specialized graphics hardware was not generally available for consumer PCs. This has almost never been true. GPUs existed, and were being used, before the N64. Your comment also begs the question that the console consumer has transitioned to a gaming pc. They haven't. Gaming PC sales (and hardware) are at all-time lows, except for GPUs, which should probably be rename…
But back then you had to have a PC and experience with it to install drivers, install games, mess with configs etc.
The draw of consoles was the ease of use. N64 problem solving was just off/on
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#235IANAL, but is it illegal to have a "Buy" button that is just a disguised "Rent" button? If not, should we change the law?
Pretty sure you could get some action from the ACCC here in Australia if you go through the process to lodge a complaint.
Why, do you want Sony to add mandatory Digital ID to their platform?
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I never have to question whether the game will function and perform well on the console Thanks to recent moves by Sony, this is no longer the case!
Can you please elaborate? The recent moves I’ve seen have been announcing a shift to digital-only and another about clawing back movie purchases. Neither are appealing to me, but also aren’t related to game performance or compatibility.
The obvious next step will be to claw back game purchases. Come on now. This is extremely obvious.
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#237I read recently that PlayStation users are moving to PC en masse, and also Xbox has been gutted by layoffs, and there's a backlash against Nintendo for the switch 2 pricing. Is the age of the console finally coming to an end?
> PlayStation users are moving to PC en masse PC is even more digital-only than Playstation. No one buys physical games on PC. The only difference is that Valve has been a very good steward over Steam. Theoretically, PC can get as enshittified as PS. I guess there are other DRM-based purchasing platforms, and there's also DRM free ones like GOG so PC gamers have choice, but those feel niche mostly.
The difference is that there is no one steward. You don't need steam, there are lots of other ways to get your games. GoG, Itch.io, Windows Store, or just the developers webpage.
On PlayStation, switch, or Xbox you have only one gatekeeper, and they do not respect you
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#238I read recently that PlayStation users are moving to PC en masse, and also Xbox has been gutted by layoffs, and there's a backlash against Nintendo for the switch 2 pricing. Is the age of the console finally coming to an end?
People age out of wanting to sit in their bedroom with a handheld and become adults who have living rooms. For home gaming there will always be demand to play games on a real sized screen.
Some adults then lose that living room to their offspring and have to go back to playing in the bedroom.
I speak from experience
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is that we've always been buying licences, it's just that the licence used to be attached to a physical object, so transferring the licence was as easy as transferring ownership of that physical object. It's never been legal to copy a book, film, or music album and sell the copies, for example, because the licence doesn't allow it. Hence freeware, shareware, and copyleft licences.
yes, but it was (is?) in many places legal to copy Filmes and Musik albums as backup, and iff the original is lost you can very much sell the backup alongside with the license you did buy (kinda, it gets messy practically). It only mattered that if you sell it you lose it, i.e. you can't buy 1 sell (or gift) 10. Similarly in analog times this where not unilaterally cancelled licenses. Which are effectively nothing mo…
Don't get me wrong: this system where Sony (or whomever else) just deletes stuff from your account with no recourse is absolutely batshit insane.
What I'm getting at is that people are getting the shape of the problem wrong (it was never ownership vs licensing), so the solution has to be different too. E.g. Bluray AACS revocation provides the technical means through which licences for physical media can be revoked just like purely downloadable stuff can.
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#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
Power in numbers is with the people. Power in votes is with whoever has the votes. Power in money is with the billionaires. Power comes in many forms and isn't fungible.
No, Money, Votes, etc has value because the general public gives it value. All billionaires could be instantly broke if the general public decided they were broke. Votes are ultimately a method of control not an inherent power unto themselves. Societies have gotten really good at convincing people they don’t have power so it’s rarely exercised but it’s always worth remembering the difference between abstraction and t…
Eh. The people exercise their power constantly. Only historically not in the ways some people (read as: me) would prefer.