Comment by pryelluw
1 day ago
Guess I’m throwing my PS5 out the window and going to PC. This war on physical media is ridiculous. Pretty soon they’re going to require us to buy the console but rent the controllers for the very low price of $79.99 a month.
Steam normalized the loss of resale rights on PC long before the consoles caught up. Younger people don't even realize it's a right that prior generations gave up.
and yet, Steam is seen as the superior service that deserves to keep their monopoly.
Yes, and it's a tragedy that people have given up so much for the shallow convenience of having a shiny launcher and not having to figure out clicking on setup.exe.
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The thing with Steam is that it's more convenient than piratebay, but for the collector in you, piratebay is still there for insurance.
Not to mention whatever's available on GoG where you don't even need a crack to make backups.
With Sony you have no insurance.
Steam isn't a monopoly, it's just a good service. Why would I use a shittier one created by, generally, extremely greedy and woke corporations?
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Steam has existed for an eternity compared to any console specific game store. It's not great that you can't resell what you have on Steam, but at least you get to 'keep' it.
steam games don't have discs either
the real problem here isn't lack of plastic circles
> steam games don't have discs either
Disc > Steam > Digital console
Steam games exist on physical media that players have some control over: I can copy my Steam data directory across PCs/Steam Deck, I would not be able to do that on a PlayStation.
Sure, I can't resell my Steam games, but the openness of the PC platform has advantages over closed consoles. Valve can't brick old games the way Sony can - a new computer in 2046 will be able to play single-player games backed-up from Steam, not so much for consoles.
On PC you can fight this by buying from GOG DRM-free digital storefront or the second more sinister option
Gog might consider linux more, which will make me reconsider it. I stopped buying from them because the lack of linux support
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Yeah, but games get bigger and more frequent discounts on pc, besides the base game price for a lot of games sometimes decreased after some years.
I have a PC and PS5, and bought game for PS5 just because they were on disk, despite that they would've ran and look much better on my pc.
Sony is releasing like 2 single-player games a year, I might get a PS6, but I'll be in not rush with so little offering, anything else I'll get on PC.
Valve have shown themselves to be reasonably trustworthy unlike say, Sony and Microsoft. If there are no disks then there is no point in consoles in my view, they're just worse computers.
Steam only exists because Valve forced players to install it, force an online activation, and permanently bind their retail copies of Half-Life 2 to a Steam account. They also forced patching which meant in an era of dialup you couldn't play your single player game for hours, and needed to be connected every 30 days or your game would stop working.
None of the console manufacturers pulled that shit, that Valve gets a pass is wild to me.
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plus, nothings stopping you from distributing a physical PC game. Heck, iirc steam still supports it. Even if it didn't, you could still buy a physical PC anyway since they can just have an exe, flatpak/snap/appimage, or dmg
Can’t I back them to physical media?
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To solve what exactly? Sure you will punish Sony but that won't bring optical media back. We need to accept and move on with the times.
It is still possible to actually buy PC games, not rent them.