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For those who don't know, there has been somewhat of an uproar due to Playstation's announcement about stopping making disks.

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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

Nope. PCs haven't had physical games for well over a decade. Even "physical" games like Battlefield 1 just had a code in them, and that was 2016, a decade ago now. Discs were going away for PC games by the early 10s. I've been surprised that consoles held out for as long as they did, considering the always online stuff, the updates, seasonal DLC, DRM, etc. I miss when games were feature complete, like Pokemon Emerald or the early Sonic franchise.

I would like to be able to legally resell my digital games that I don't want anymore.

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

That depends entirely on how long gamers are able to stay angry enough to sustain the boycott, and how many of them actually stick to it.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

No because we tried to boycott the micro transactions and look what happened, the rich people just paid to play. Now everything has micro transactions. God of war will come out and suddenly a huge number of us forget about any silly boycott.

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

It's a big nothing burger.

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Its a dumb ask. I bought the Playstation to play it when I have the time. I think way more people would be on board if it was a ps store blackout. No MTC, no purchases, nothing. Easy. Doable. Asking people to ignore the $600 widget they already bought and use? Pretty unreasonable.

[–] the_wizard_of_0Z@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

NO... the golden age is over.... video games are a scam now. Swim against the stream and throw in the towel... cold turkey. Your wallet will thank you. Get a new hobby like masturbation. Anything but giving the PDFiles your money. The turds have entered the building. The fun has been compromised. https://www.aftribune.com/entertainment/epstein-files-expose-how-jeffrey-epstein-pushed-microtransactions-in-video-games/

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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The general population doesn't care about discs or even owning their game. I think one-vendor consoles are on their way out though. There will just be normal computers in fancy boxes and Nintendo left after this next gen runs its course imo. About time tbh.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip -5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

no… it is all slacktivism now…

People love to bitch whine and moan on social media but won’t do a damn thing about it.

With that said. Physical media sucks.. let it die.

[–] the_wizard_of_0Z@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We got a corpo in the chat. How do the boots taste?

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It is all Slactivist whiners now… No one will change their behaviors at all or even be inconvenienced.

You can bury your head in the sand and tell yourself otherwise, but that changes nothing.

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