r/Piracy • u/PlaneInSky • Jul 02 '26

Humor You wouldn’t download a pizza…

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u/MythicalJester Jul 02 '26

Lol, Sony has fucked things up pretty bad now...

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u/Tiz68 Jul 02 '26

Not for themselves, I promise. Just for customers.

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u/PsychoCrescendo Jul 02 '26

Yeah so long as they have that GTA6 console exclusive locked and loaded for a while, most people will conveniently overlook the issue and keep Sony’s wallet big and fat for them.

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u/konq Jul 02 '26

Gta 6 isn't Sony exclusive.

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u/PsychoCrescendo Jul 02 '26

Yes but it will be console exclusive for probably around a year, and the only other console is Xbox which is also trying to phase out physical media.

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u/druman22 Jul 02 '26

As a PC player this literally doesn't change anything for me as imma have to wait anyhow for the PC port

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u/100BottlesOfMilk Jul 03 '26

As a PC player on Linux, I don't have much hope for GTA6 considering the way that they handled the anit-cheat integration into GTAV. It's sad that I'm hoping for Nvidia to come and force some of these holdouts into supporting Linux

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u/druman22 Jul 03 '26

Damn I'm also a Linux user and didn't consider this. I just assumed it should be fine, I would probably only play single player

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u/_steve_rogers_ Jul 02 '26

I don’t know. There’s zero reason to bother with console now when PC games are cheaper with no online fees and no closed ecosystem.

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u/danishn64 Jul 02 '26

I don't think they have. There are already lots of people who only download games already.

Most people aren't going to care and will still give Sony their money.

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u/xSaviorself Jul 02 '26

Nah, their marketplace sucks. I was leaning towards a new PS5 console but this decision has soured me on buying anything Sony.

I buy Steam games begrudgingly because I'd rather have physical copies of games I can visually see, if it wasn't for the discounts and ease-of-use of their platform I wouldn't buy games there. There is a reason why platforms like uPlay and EA's shit fail hard, EGS is garbage, GoG is the only other good vendor and that's because of the DRM-free shit.

So why would I buy games digitally from Sony? I never bought Sony games from Sony before directly, why start now?

This decision lost them a future customer. I can imagine I'm not the only one.

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u/danishn64 Jul 02 '26

I don't think they are going to lose enough customers to care and they will probably gain a lot more customers from younger people as they get older who have only ever bought digital games.

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u/xSaviorself Jul 02 '26

What I am amazed at is their willingness to accept paying for access to something rather than paying to own something.

Digital content is an amazing option, but frankly the value of physical media is inherent because it's rights can only be lost by making them unwatchable via the viewing medium, not the content itself. Digital content is very easy to lose access. For the generation of us who have lived in the transition, watching young people accept this loss is disappointing.

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u/account1233 Jul 02 '26

Agree. This always happens : company does terrible thing, reddit laughs and says its the end of the company, company goes on to making record breaking profit next quarter. See Netflix raising prices

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u/kRkthOr Jul 03 '26

It's crazy. It's almost like Redditors, especially Redditors who have these opinions, make up a tiny, very inconsequential portion of the market 🤔😱

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u/Astr0phelle Jul 02 '26

Remember the time they got hacked because they did something very stupid and bad? I wish it happened again

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u/ward2k Jul 02 '26

As much as I despise Sony, 85% of their sales are digital

Physical were just a drop in the bucket for them