PlayStation discs will soon be gone!
Wtf #sony ?
The #playstation account announced in a blog post that they will stop making game discs altogether. http://play.st/4v86Wg3
This means :
- No buying second hand. Once the game is not sold anymore nobody can buy it
- Can not bring the game to someone’s house and play together, now you need to log into your account
- Sony can, for any or no reason remove a game from your library
- If you paid extra for a PS5 with a disc drive, too bad, you can’t use the drive you paid extra for with games beyond 2028!
- Overall, a very slippery slope for ownership.
@StopKillingGames 's post on the issue : https://mastodon.social/deck/@StopKillingGames/116846124104426804
#gaming #stopkillinggames #games #preservation #digitalownership
What makes you think they can’t take away your license to a physical copy? Concord anyone?
They totally could but that’s a hell of a line to cross. Not so much the online only stuff, but like literally everything? Why actually buy things at that point?
Its not just that they could. They already have. Guess you’d better stop buying.
yes? that’s pretty much what’s going on.
I don’t understand. You just suggested that they could but wouldn’t…
I think I’m a bit confused and I was probably a bit tired last night. To recap I think they are probably going down the line where eventually you’ll have games removed from your psn profile similar to how they removed the movies from licensing issues. I’m certainly not buying a new console while they are going down that road, no new games I don’t have physical ownership of the media it’s on.
Steam has a history of not removing things that you’ve already bought which I think is crazy important for consumer confidence. PlayStation feels like it’s shooting itself in the foot so hard with this, I have no idea why they think it’s a good idea. I mean obviously short-sighted money bullshit, but you’d think they’d understand the importance of long term planning with their 6th console.