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Dunkey makes Sony mad as hell

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Damn son, that's some cold shit right there.
 
Thank you for making me feel empty donkey.

We had it all. Game stores filled with new releases, greatest hits, 2nd hand copies. Blasting game music. Stands with denos of new games and consoles.
We had coach co-op, midnight launches and E-fucking-3.
And now we got digital licenses, dynamic pricing and constant full priced games 5 years after release.

Fuck man, it was hard to explain to my kids what arcades were, now i need to add physical media to stories of days past...
 
Ending kinda made me sad, not because everything was better back then, but because the relationship was simpler.

Go to store, window shop, buy game, put game in, and play...done. Never thought about the terms of service, DLC or ownership, the game was just there in the box.
 
Durin said:
..., put game in, and play...done. Never thought about the terms of service, DLC or ownership, the game was just there in the box.
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I have slow-ass wi-fi in my house, and for some reason, my Series X is WAAAAAY slower than my PS5 in downloading. I had forgotten about it, but I FINALLY finished "installing" (downloading) STALKER 2 for Xbox -- 149 GB -- and it IMMEDIATELY hit me with "Download the update. 125 GB."

I swear my Series X is just the Update Machine. For some reason, the PS5 doesn't hang up with updates like this does. I absolutely miss the game in the box.

ANYway -- back on topic.
 
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spookyfish said:
I have slow-ass wi-fi in my house, and for some reason, my Series X is WAAAAAY slower than my PS5 in downloading. I had forgotten about it, but I FINALLY finished "installing" (downloading) STALKER 2 for Xbox -- 149 GB -- and it IMMEDIATELY hit me with "Download the update. 125 GB."

I swear my Series X is just the Update Machine. For some reason, the PS5 doesn't hang up with updates like this does. I absolutely miss the game in the box.

ANYway -- back on topic.
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Yeah, when your internet is slow it drags the entire play experience with many modern big games down. Throw in data caps as another annoyance too.
 
Durin said:
Never thought about the terms of service, DLC or ownership, the game was just there in the box.
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The End User LICENSE Agreement was also in the box. Just because you didn't think about it doesn't mean it wasn't there.

South Park was right. They could have had you guys agreeing to the Humancentipad this entire time and you wouldn't have known it until it was too late.
proud steve jobs GIF by South Park
 
Revolutionary said:
The End User LICENSE Agreement was also in the box. Just because you didn't think about it doesn't mean it wasn't there.

South Park was right. They could have had you guys agreeing to the Humancentipad this entire time and you wouldn't have known it until it was too late.
proud steve jobs GIF by South Park
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Pretty sure publishers weren't cool with me passing around a single physical PC game at a LAN party, using the play disc to load the game, and then popping it out to pass around either.

No one cared back then because they were limited in how they could enforce terms, and had less ways of knowing what you were doing with the media. EULAs were good kindling though.
 
Durin said:
Pretty sure publishers weren't cool with me passing around a single physical PC game at a LAN party, using the play disc to load the game, and then popping it out to pass around either.

No one cared back then because they were limited in how they could enforce terms, and had less ways of knowing what you were doing with the media. EULAs were good kindling though.
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My point is that you never actually owned a copy of a videogame, and that the recent news was an inevitable reality.

And to be clear, I'm not defending it. But the reality of the situation is that we were set on this path decades ago.
 
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So sad, and what hurts Sony is the proponent of physical media especially blue ray. Blue ray was excellent designed with help of Sony research and now they are going to kill it. I hate sony to the bones right now.
 



Saying that "I knew" is arrogant, but for sure I was having a great time after great time in the 90s and 2000s. Since early 2010s bureaucracy got more and more, and now it's not easy to have fun

They fucked everything, and some people are just accepting, which is the worst part
 
Revolutionary said:
My point is that you never actually owned a copy of a videogame, and that the recent news was an inevitable reality.

And to be clear, I'm not defending it. But the reality of the situation is that we were set on this path decades ago.
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We were set on the path for sure with digital online devices, but I think the limits of those physical storage mediums prevented the restrictions of those EULAs to the point people just treated them like owned products after first-sale.

It just never mattered, and because of that is more of a technicality. I'd have liked if people started pushing for regulations on digital politically during the 360/PS3 gen though.
 
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It is damn sad when you think of it. Despite "social media" and always online BS, gaming was more social back in the day.

Yeah, there are more games than ever but somehow it's just not quite as good. :(
 
Our sons and daughters will not experience the true fun of gaming, the gaming conferences like E3, waiting in line midnight for launch, choosing games in stores, receiving a game gift wrap during Christmas or birthday celebration, sharing games with friends, collecting boxes with excellent covers and free stuff, etc. If you still have retro console, show it to your children and let them play this retro consoles and games to experience the true fun in gaming.
 
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Yeah this is really not blowing over yet.

If anything it is hitting people how different the company to costumer relationship is. Or how it feels so different now.

I am all down for people realizing shit ain't good. They should ask more questions. Don't let up.
 
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KuraiShidosha said:
Yeah that ending screams crowbcat to me. But hey, it's all just nostalgia. Things weren't actually better back then. It's literally never been a better time to be a gamer. 🙄
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Nah , you've only been drip fed constant brain washing for so long to believe so. We have lost so many incredible experiences to a single sterile enviroment.
 
man, playing games since the Atari 800xl is sad to see where our hobby is now. We had it so good for so many years that we took it for granted that things were going to keep getting better, know i don't know anymore. Its really end of an era :(
 
I was there for the midnight launch of San Andreas. Good times and they're gone 🥹

I really am an idiot for selling all my old games and consoles. What I wouldn't give to have them all back now just to see the classics I had. Probably worth a small fortune but back then I was trading games in constantly and playing constantly so there's no regrets really. Would be just cool to see what I had.
 
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Doczu said:
We had it all. Game stores filled with new releases, greatest hits, 2nd hand copies. Blasting game music. Stands with denos of new games and consoles.
We had coach co-op, midnight launches and E-fucking-3.
And now we got digital licenses, dynamic pricing and constant full priced games 5 years after release.
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This gives me heavy The Getaway ending speech vibes.
 
That ending... I really hope it doesn't come down to that. Boutique physical games still have a place.

Doczu said:
Thank you for making me feel empty donkey.

We had it all. Game stores filled with new releases, greatest hits, 2nd hand copies. Blasting game music. Stands with denos of new games and consoles.
We had coach co-op, midnight launches and E-fucking-3.
And now we got digital licenses, dynamic pricing and constant full priced games 5 years after release.

Fuck man, it was hard to explain to my kids what arcades were, now i need to add physical media to stories of days past...
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I still recall when they sold us the idea that digital would be less expensive compared to physical. In the grand scheme of things, it was just a trojan horse to give away more control to the suits. Things didn't get cheaper at all. Things just got more fragmented and prices just kept going up. There is no stabilization or satiation in sight for these big publishers.
 
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Hypereides said:
That ending... I really hope it doesn't come down to that. Boutique physical games still have a place.


I still recall when they sold the us the idea that digital would be less expensive compared to physical. In the grand scheme of things, it was just a trojan horse to give away more control to the suits. Things didn't get cheaper at all. Things just got more fragmented and prices just kept going up. There is no stabilization or satiation in sight for these big publishers.
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Digital is cheaper...for them.
 
Shit like this is why I hope certain major corners of the industry crashes in the coming years. Burn it fucking down. I don't care for anyone's expert opinion on why that's bad actually. I don't care. The innocent and wholesome side of gaming is fucking dead. It's dead. All that stands in it's place is cynical corporate cocksuckery. Just a bunch of demons in a suit who want to suck our lifeforce dry, and care nothing about the art and creativity of the business. People aren't going to buy a $1000 console that can pull your digital content at any time for any arbitrary reason. A console that will have the same looking First Party Exclusives that are so few and far between. Xbox will probably pull a lot of the same shit. Hopefully all this bullshit melts down soon, and whatever rises in it's place is more consumer friendly. If not, I have a huge backlog and plenty of old games that are still amazing to play to this day.
 
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