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Stop Killing Games
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Stop Killing Games:
The consumer movement to stop game publishers from intentionally destroying older games with kill switches.
The goal is to reach 1 million signatures in the EU so that the european parliament will respond to the initiative that then leads to regulation that requires end-of-life plans for games to stay playable.
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My ps3 was my last PlayStation couldn't justify a ps4 and the ps5 was a nightmare for all the games releasing digital only (or having a disc that was effectively a drink coaster due to the game still needing downloaded in order to play)
I noticed the PS4 games took up way more hard drive space than the PS3 ones
Some PS3 games where 20-40GB each. You didn’t see the file size since the game actually ran off the disc. For a console where the average system size was 160GB is was not enough.
I would take a guess and say PS4 games took way more space than PS2 and PS1 as well.
It seems that games run more from the disc than say the PS3 hard drive.
Don’t you still need the disc for the license
Yes, but if/when Sony kills support for those systems the disc becomes a useless piece of plastic unless you have the entire game catalog installed. A ton of discs don't contain enough of the game data to be playable out of the box.