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
@helloyanis @games YIKES, they must’ve been practically waiting for the GTA 6 announcement.
Welp, I guess we’re never buying any playstation anything in the future. We’ve /already/ lost access to any digital games for our PS4 we don’t already have downloaded, because we’d have to update the console to redownload them and that would make it unhackable. And like… the physical games is the literal ONLY REASON to go console for us. If there’s no advantage to going console and we don’t own our games anyway, and might get locked out of them at any time with a system update, why not just buy everything on Steam?
@IceWolf @games It’s funny you say that because I have a PS2 and all the games still work on it. I was actually playing a PS2 game when I wrote this post!
Ah the good times… :blobcatpensive:
@helloyanis @games PS3 too! Our PS3 is pretty great.
Funnily enough, it can spoof its version so IT has no problem going online! We can even buy legit digital games on a hacked console.
(hey Sony, consider: if you lock hacked-console people out of buying games because you block them from PSN, they HAVE to pirate if they’re not going physical)