Slop. I don't know anyone who's ever bought digital when physical was available.

I just wanna say this is my opinion.

98% of the shit we deal with. Not just game shit, but everything....all boils down to these folks with power being utter rotten puss filled cunts.

Like honestly. Fuck disc. I hate em. I love digital. But fuck me. Let it be mine. Let me mod it (without cheating in it) let me play it on any console I want. Let it be my $80 of the game to do with as I want.

Like stop being such assholes. Why do these folks gotta turn into hateful cunts cause they got money or they made a game or media or whatever the fuck.

Consumers wouldn't be as pissed if they weren't being fisted constantly.

The problem isn’t with digital. The problem is with digital licenses and rights.

People have been buying more and more physical media recently due to the enshittification of streaming. I've been buying blu-rays for movies I really want to 'own'.

It just clearly not up to some people's standards. Imagine how much more $$$ valve would make if they published physical copies for their steam machine.

I don't mind digital if i can own it, store it wherever i want and installing it without internet

the "choice" was shoved down your throats

I play on PC, last console I owned was Sega Saturn. I have a few physical copies but most of my games are on steam and Gog. a friend who plays in console and perceive as normal Sony's practices, asked what's the difference between how he choose to play and me: I shared with him the example, some time ago rockstar delisted the original 3d GTA trilogy. Its not available in any digital platforms as an option to buy, but I still have them and play actually.

Then I shared with him the amazing indie games, he can buy for cheap, and the recurring sales. And let him know that on Sony's ecosystem, they won't have this flexibility, they will set dynamic prices, lock people out without any easy way to appeal.

It dawned on him, finally. Yesterday he shared Dammit Jeff's video advising to turn auto update on ps5 off. Like him, there's a lot of players misinformed of the consequences of consoles tyranny.

I had a PS4, witch was sold and didn't have coonsole for years. Then I got a PS5 and my account was deleted with all my purchases.

That didn't happen to my steam games.

The problem is the legislation around digital consumers rights.

No, I made the choice for physical. I don't own a single digital game on a Sony console. Don't put this on me. I want to buy physical. I never wanted digital for myself. I always wanted choice.

Its just that I don't matter. I'm a minority and Sony don't give a fuck about me. It's not my fault Sony is stopping physical production. Its still profitable, so Sony could keep on doing it. But they don't because they want to fuck me over.

Damned be the man who blames the consumer and he can shove his worked at Valve credentials up his ass.

Companies offer games as a digital download or physical disc.

Consumers buy physical disc out of a desire to preserve media.

Game is unplayable off the disc without a 98GB download that installs a digital copy of the game onto the hardware. Disc is essentially a physical license to play the game and is useless otherwise.

“You chose this”

Fuck right off. At this point, if a game isn’t either available on GoG or as a FitGirl RePack, it does not register as an option for me anymore. That is my choice.

If you vote with your wallet, it just means those richer than you have a bigger vote.

Digital games are nice. There was a good chunk of time during the ps4/xbone era where I bought a lot of digital games. But in recent years as I have watched how these companies have acted, I have switched back to buying physical as much as possible. I realized I actually prefer having the thing in my hands. Being able to look at it on the shelf with the rest of my collection. Now I only buy digital as a secondary more convenient copy when there is a good sale. Otherwise, I want to own my game and feel it in my hands as I insert a cart or a disk.

For me, improving digital rights is only a partial compromise, when we should continue to have choices. Losing secondhand copies and hurting that part of the industry is unforgivable to me. My choice is not for digital, and these companies moving away from it is a dealbreaker for me. If this is the route all of them go, I will no longer play modern games. Fuck it's not like most of them are actually worth buying and playing these days when it's all designed to squeeze as much money out of you as possible.

I have hundreds of physical games, and there are so many more I can still collect and play. I feel comfortable enough with my old games that I could never touch a new game again and have plenty to play for the rest of my life. If this is where the companies choose to try to force us to go, then I'm out. I've managed to live my whole life without playing a PS6 or GTA 6. I'm not going to be strongarmed into losing my choice.

He isn't wrong how many people here buy from steam - it's rare if ever you get a physical release of a game on steam.

Now physical rights vs digital are the issue;

Buying a physical item means you own it and can use it whenever you want.

Buying a digital item means you buy the license to use that item. That's a concept that's been around for software purchasing for a very long time.

People want to own the digital item the same as the physical and not have the license pulled when a publisher decides to. Sony just doesn't have the trust of the gaming community for this.

"You chose digital."

Chooses DRM-free, piracy otherwise

"Not like that!"

People keep pre-ordering absolutely everthing no matter the price because they need to have it the moment it comes out. THIS means companies can do whatever the fuck they want because people will let them do it.

The solution is so easy stop buying their shit. Yes you won't play on the second it comes out 6 months later its like 50% at least.

Nothing will change because people value convenience over change.

Yes it is a conspiracy. Sony doesn’t want physical games for a whole bunch of reasons not least of which is control and greed. And if you think this is a new thing you would be wrong. They have been pushing this quietly for years. Second hand sales, game rentals, trading… these are all things that cut into Sony’s profits. If you ever want a reason follow the money.

I'm 37 years old, I only buy digital when it's cheap and easy.

I will never ever buy a $100 game digitally. Years ago when I bought overlord, overlords DLC and overlord 2 all for $5 and I got 40+ hours out of it.. That was 10 years ago.. If that is taken away from me then I'll be annoyed but I won't want to burn down the entire industry.

Rockstar a few years ago created a terrible remaster of GTA3, GTA VC and GTA SA and they wanted to exterminate the original PS2 versions.

I'm Happy the digital versions but I still have all of the PS2 discs in a box somewhere.

GTA VI is releasing soon with no disc... Enjoy! No disc.. And no Lazlow.. I've got plenty of other games on discs I can play.