They are gonna remove games in future like they did with the movies
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
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They already have lol.
Licensed titles are different. Unless they’ve done that for non-licensed titles.
Sometimes the license for the music in games expires and developers/publishers just remove it from the games.
That, by itself, is absolutely outrageous and absurd. The game developer's failure to license the music appropriately is between them and the music copyright holder; nothing gives them the right to steal the content back from the third parties they conveyed it to in perpetuity.
Agreed, licensing for anything like that in game should be required to be permanent. Only exception I can possibly think of is live service games where the content cycles out of availability.
I wouldn't argue just that it should be; I would argue that it is and we have a massive problem with the FTC failing to enforce existing law.
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If they could be trusted to treat digital copies as actual ownership, this wouldn't be such a big deal.
I’d feel more strongly about this if I’d actually bought a game on a physical disc anytime in the last 3 years.
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At this rate why sell hardware to people anymore? Might as well rip the bandaid and make it a cloud-gaming device.
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My main problem with this is I can’t sell or trade a digital game after I’m done with it. This needs to be ~~felt~~ delt with legally.
I like being able to share a disc with friends. Or get one from the library. They kill that, they're making a hell of lot of enemies.
I feel you but I'm no lawyer.
For real, every jurisdiction needs to extend the first sale doctrine to digital media
So. They have chosen death.
The majority of people do not care.
Then the majority of people will get shafted. Nothing new under the sun, I guess.
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Sony I already didn't intend to buy the next game console, you don't have to keep trying to push me away.
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At least the digital-only playstations will be really cheap... Right?
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The concept that not everyone has big internet or even good enough might be super strange for these C-level people.
I don't think they care about those markets (even though they could make a lot of money out of them)
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Stop being suckered into the system that has no respect for you or the money they steal from you.
I might get a used PS5 to play some exclusives when it can be had for cheap. But I reckon people will cling to theirs.
I think most of those games will still require a big chunk of the game to be downloaded from their servers, which who knows how long will be available.
Happy cake day!
Hadn't realized it. Thanks!
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Am not surprised given how large games today can be. You can have a disk to launch the game when you first get it, but chances are the Playstation will still have to "update" it with the full resources..
I don't have a playstation, but FFS, I can't even get the full Halo: Master Chief Collection onto my gaming PC - I just don't have the drive space. Some game packages are huge today.
It's this or go back to multi disc installs. Modern discs have 100GB capacity so Halo MCC would be on two. The largest games, like the modern Call of Duty amalgamation-launcher-thing and ARK, would push over 3 discs. I for one wouldn't mind -- it at least keeps the fantasy of owning game media alive, just a little bit -- and I wish updates and patches weren't so damn mandatory.
The disc doesn't have to have the full data on it..in fact most don't nowadays and they require downloading the additional data from the store...so there shouldn't be any issue here in terms of storage... essentially what a Switch 2 game key card is.
It's for a physical license and entitlement of ownership
This is Sony wrestling away the last bits physical ownership they can take away to force the middleman out and make used games history. This is going to result in higher prices and significantly fewer sales
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