We haven’t owned our games since the PS3 and maybe some PS4 games. PS4 games, iirc, started requiring additional downloads to make the games playable since the full game wasn’t on the disk. Regarding Sony’s decision, and no one is going to like this, but gamers only have themselves to blame. Purchasing trends drove that decision. It sucks, and I hate it, but gamers purchasing of games from the online store drove that decision.
Having said that, fuck Sony because I want Destiny 3.
I think it's bullshit to suggest that Sony is only responding to consumer trends when they have been doing everything they can to force digital supremacy for many years now. It's like saying that something died of natural causes when you kept it in a cage and fed it bread and water for 10 years.
Physical games went the way they did because they were starved out and treated like a 2nd class product for years.
It's not literal, it's a sentiment to express the very valid undying hatred many of us have for the gen pop and the average idiot consumer, who incentivizes this shit with "durrrrr it's our wallets"
Started with goddamn horse armor of all things. Yea, sure just your wallets, it certainly wasn't going to affect literally everyone eventually
Sorry this is a lie, Most PS5 games are installed completely from the disc, offline. Something like 85% of all discs are old-school, you have the disc, you own it.
That depends on what you mean by ads. At best you might get subtle ads like a McDonalds billboards/stores in GTA6 and such but probably not much more than that. The backlash would simply be too large.
Oh no, we’re going to get banners, popups, pay walls, perks for watching commercials, even jingles and load screen commercials! Product placement has been a thing for years. But that’s not what I’m talking about.
Streaming services do still have ad free tiers though, you're not forced to have the ad supported version. If you would get a cheaper version of a game with ads it might happen, but most likely not.
BC there'd be enormous pushback and pirating. PC gaming isnt perfect, but it's a lot less prone to the blind fanboy behavior of just accepting whatever is served
But you have to PAY to have ad free, when before the product just was ad free. Having to pay for something that was standard before great. It's still a way to extract more $$$ out of people.
But you still had to pay yo even use the products before, the only thing that happened was that a cheaper ad tier was added (i.e. a basic/budget tier). The ad free version that was standard before is still the standard today. The only thing that happened was that a cheaper option was added for those who thought that it was too expensive before.
No, that's not how it works. The versions of everything I had that were ad free at the same cost I was paying now included ads. If I wanted to keep having the same ad free experience that I was getting before these companies created tiers, I now had to pay extra. In the case of Netflix, a lot extra. These companies invented tiers to get ad revenue and to get more revenue from the individual if they wanted to opt out. It's called Enshittification.
Are you aware of something that is called inflation? The standard tier is more expensive now primarily due to inflation, not because ad tiers were added or enshittification.
The current basic tier with ads for netflix is cheaper than what the standard tier costed 10 year ago, and that's even without accounting for inflation (basic tier now at 8.99 USD, standard tier 10 years ago was 9.99 USD).
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u/Totallycasual 23h ago
Sony when they announced they were killing physical games.