Games

Ok. I'll read a book instead. I haven't turned my ps5 on in a year. Corpo execs have a mentality problem in that they've worthless leeches of people with addictions. I'll just sell it and probably make all my money back because I have the discs with an overpriced system that continues to go up even though it was released years ago.

I'm a much happier person today. You don't need these things anymore. Now is the time for humanity to return to common and basic activities. It will help us come back together and solve a lot of our social problems.

They're doing us all a huge favor by pricing everything out and stealing what little we can afford. Face the music. They're telling you the thing you paid for is theirs and not yours. It's time to move on.

Sounds like that dipshit has a reality issue.

Oh. So he is an asshole like Elon. Good to know.

Again, we know that we don't own Crash Bandicot, the IP, but, we wanna own a copy of a game that features Crash Bandicot.

Sony doesn't even make anything if merit anymore.

They stopped making televisions, the only thing of note are headphones which have decent profit margins but that market is so crowded their still not a top 3 player.

These dipshits are playing Russian Roulette with their company by trying to strip consumers of their ownership.

They're literally staking their company's survival on the idea that they can do this without their consumers simply walking away.

Don't let them.

Absolutely true. If there wouldn’t be a lot of cases where Sony just deleted the digital versions someone paid to own, and that I am unable to trade what I own with someone else, I wouldn’t mind a digital-only ecosystem at all.

But it is not a mentality issue. It is a pretty conscious decision to protect your own rights.

They actually have a point. People are pissed that they don't own their games anymore. So guarantee ownership. Give us recourse when servers shut down. Let us trade, sell, borrow second hand games. Let us play games without an account. We should be free to do with a game whatever we want

ceos getting upset at people pirating their games is a mentality issue.

I understand that physical discs have become a metaphor for 'owning' games. I really understand that mentality...

Yeah, the fact that you call it a "metaphor" proves you don't understand it at all.

Good job Onion, nailed it aga....

Wait this isn't satire, he actually said that?

Ok boomer

If a member of the wealth class is brutally killed, upset at their discontinuation is a "mentality issue"

I have a mentality issue where I'll spend my money elsewhere.

So, Ken, got any jiggalicious PH neutral seven spice aubergine conditioner to go with your foul snake oil opinions?

It's true tho, we never owned games, music, or movies on physical media either. We owned the revokable rights to view/use that copy of the media for private usage.

Every teacher that showed a movie in class broke a federal law.

It was just one of those things that was unenforceable and no one understood.

It doesn't mean we should accept not owning media, it just means we have zero chance of fixing it if we never understand it. A purchase should be lifetime usage, regardless of media. What you're buying is a license to view/use it, method doesn't matter.

Like how some people back in the day would only download a movie if they owned the DVD. That should be legal.

But trying to explain that never goes well

Can I sell my digital copy to someone else? Or borrow it to them?

You keep making it different, asshole.

They’re trying so hard to implode. All we have to do is nothing and they’ll be gone in a few years.

I think he's correct that it's a mentality issue: but the issue is with Sony's mentality, not the consumer. If the PlayStation store operated like gog.com there wouldn't be as much of an issue.

I think he also underestimates the advantages of a separate disk per game, especially when he mentions hardware prices in the same breath...

Thanks for your contribution to the piracy ecosystem, Ken.