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Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/49078916
A storm knocked out Internet, so now you can't play any games due to Always-on DRM.
You try to watch a movie you physically own, but you didn't buy the $350 optical addon to the digital-only version of the console.
So depressing.
Its so going to happen
already does. I had a Samsung bluray player from over a decade ago that refused to play any movies made a year after it was manufactured unless I connected it to update. it went in my kids room and plays DVDs from the local library now.
It is the one that that grinds my gears about Steam sometimes.
i felt this way when A: drives went away. if it doesn't have to be a sony brand BD player and could just be one that meets certain specs... fuck prices are going up such that 350 will be "cheap" soon.
I'm kinda old and have had a couple of Nintendos but never anything PS or Xbox. I've been a PC gamer since PC games existed.
it's 2043
523 days into the war
Found your PS6
It boots
Games won't play, requires internet
Internet has been down since the dawn of the war
Want to shoot yourself in the head
But you lost your Yubikey to unlock the safety
"They each cost 80$" is the only unrealistic part of this. I reckon it'll be higher.
Can't wait for the servers to crash cuz everyone tries downloading their copy of the game at the same time lol
Your PSN account was banned because of your social network comments and you lost all of your games.
Notification: Your Social Credit System has been reduced 2 points for posting unfavorable comments on social media. This reduces your Social Credit status from Deviant to Dissident. Your gaming and social media accounts have been temporarily suspended. You must take a mandatory course on Pro-USA affairs at your local Government Community Education center to learn how to be a better Citizen™. Your primary bank account has been charged the tuition fee of $499.99, plus $10 convenience fee, plus $10 Sony Convenience processing charge.
Alert! Your bank account has been overdrawn by a sum of $19.38. You are charged a nominal Overdraft Protection fee of $50, an overdraft interest convenience fee of $10, and a processing fee of $15.
Notification: Your Social Credit System score has been reduced 1 point due to Financial Bank Overdraft.
The controller has 3 hours of battery life and the joystick drifts by default out of the box now.
You get 3hrs? I can’t even get mine to charge at all.
It's 2060
All consoles are digital-only, legally-required to verify your identity, and locked-down
But Linux still exists! In adapting, it's now hyper-optimized for thin-client corporate workstation terminals, the only computers still made. Distributions are shared via illegal mesh networks or person-to-person on physical media
Gamers can simulate operating a "grocery store", something that used to exist back before the States collapsed
legally-required to verify your identity
UK has pushing that stuff for over a year.
Perhaps if people stopped buying those shitty anti-consumer consoles, but people never change, and after all, "iTs jUsT A GAme bRo ahaha" - player that bought fifa every year for the full price
people never change
People do change. But they have to start from somewhere.
You can convince a 20 year old on a budget not to buy a PS6 by showing them a PC rig at 1/4 the cost with a better catalog. But you're not going to convince an 8 year old who wants parents to buy it because a guy in a TMNT costume did a TikTok dance telling him to buy it. That's just 8 year olds for you.
player that bought fifa every year for the full price
There are folks with more disposable income than sense. And $80/year to get the players you're familiar with on the roster, when you've got a decent job and a couple of roommates to play with, simply isn't a big deal. At the same time, you get older and you have less free time and suddenly you're not playing soccer video games anymore because you don't recognize the players. And then maybe you end up going back to the old FIFA titles because you're nostalgic for your youth.
But this idea that people just mechanically buy all new FIFA titles forever really neglects how people get old and stop playing the games at all. And the industry has to bring in new younger people with billions of dollars in saturation advertisement if they want to keep churning out titles.
I don't understand how anyone that plays online games would buy a PS or an Xbox. Paid online is so dumb.
Well your options are boycott or privacy
You have 4 in your library, but only 1 is installed; it's Call of Duty. Since there's no need for physical media anymore, the footprint of games has ballooned to the point where if you want to install CoD, it's going to cost you 2TB of storage. They threw in 8k textures just for the 0.0001% of players that actually have an 8k TV, and there are a lot of textures since the Big Chungus update which introduced 255 different coloured Chungus textures for every weapon and weapon attachment combination in the game.
They also animated each one in a strange uncompressed video format instead of using effects over them. They are not optional, even though 95% are from optional dlcs you don't own.
They also drop the FPS to half of what it was before, which the upcoming PS6 Pro is said to handle better (it'll not actually handle it much better). With the upcoming Pro console they have removed the 2tb version of the PS6, and it has no expandable storage so you can't even play any games on the PS6 if you buy it from this point forwards.
It's 2029. My Gamecube, Dreamcast, and PS2 still work just fine, thank you.
I'll still be playing modded consoles with free games.
Don't forget fucking Secure Boot! Locked me out of one of my favorite games, Battlefield 1, all in the name of "anti-cheat"!
Fuck that noise
haha too cheap
