These cunts killed physical mediaPress S to spit on themS
no. people and the market didyou faggot
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>>742336426I stopped buying physical around the Wii U era when Splatoon came outThis is my faultI have failed you, my fellow gamers
>>742336426The market did that. I HATE PHYSICAL MEDIA, IT TAKES SPACE AND I DON'T WANT TO GO OUT AND BUY IT
You fuckers need to deal with your own problems without finding a scapegoat
>steam are the reason I can't buy a disc for my ps5 because uh.... they just are, OKAY!?
>>742336665>>742336760>>742336839>>742336858S
>>742336426>>742336739>>742336858>>742336884How the tables have turned.
>>742336426Why liberals hate valves so much?
and how exactly is that my problem?
devs refusing to release phsical didwhen i was given the choice steam or phsical i picked physicalso blame devs fucking retard
>>742336979>The PS4 was 13 years agoholy fuck Sony has been stagnating for a long time now
>>742336426They didn't do shit. The moment internet speeds became capable of transferring that much data in a reasonable amount of time, physical was doomed and inevitably withering up no matter who got in early.If you don't know the power stock space and freeing it up, has in any store that stocks physical items, you're literally too dumb to speak on this topic.
>>742336426utterly mindbroken
https://www.techpowerup.com/331520/sony-to-stop-manufacturing-blu-ray-media-effective-february-2025This shit was always coming anyway when sony stopped bluray production for consumers. Bluray is dead.
>>742336426>These cunts killed physical mediaSecuROM and GFWL were already doing a pretty good job, and being even more devilish.If anything Valve saved everyone from Microsoft having complete domination over the PC gaming industry with their slimy hands
>>742336858that also started a while ago >https://www.sony.jp/rec-media/info2/20250123.html
>>742336426The developer side of Steam still lets you export your steam game to diskIt's just that no one uses this feature anymore
>Sony does something>let's see how we can turn this into something to smear SteamTotally organic.
No, publishers did because they refused to do their jobs distributing physical media led by that blithering retard, Tim Sweeny, who declared PC was dead and Playstation was the future of video games. Gamestop would only stock Used Playstation games...mostly because Gamestop didn't have to pay publishers a single dime on Used sales. Steam's 30% cut is a lot better than the 0% cut publishers were getting from fucking Gamestop, lol.
I like digital libraries because I get access to an enormous amount of games that would have been impractical to have in a physical format.
>>742336426Good morning sir.
i still hope GTA 6 fails more without discs than if it had themTaketwo likely knew this for a while and it's funny to see Sony threw TT under the buss>picrela new era is comingpublishers prepare yourselves, kek. you asked for this
>>742336426ackshually- Vivendi Universal did by preventing Valve from releasing their own discs due to a publishing agreement from HL1.
Retards always find something to blame instead of themselves. You voted for this with your wallets. Get fucked lmaoooo
It was actually the Macbook Air, the first mainstream laptop to drop the drive, then netbooks came out that also didn't have them.
>>742336426No that would be Sony, Valve supports physical releases as you can include a steam key inside. I still own my physical copies of Shogun 2 and Dark Souls that came with them.
>>742336426the 2 hour long indie game made by one guy in his mom's basement wasn't going to get any physical release anyway
>>742336426Physical media was already on the way out. At worst Steam just pushed it ahead a few months, but anyone who thinks it would still be around without Steam, is delusional.
It's been coming for almost 50 years in the making. Ever since experiments like the GameLine and Playcable, Sega Channel and BBSes.
>>742337415>SecuROM and GFWL were already GFWL launched in 2007.SecuROM didn't have online activation before 2006.Steam wouldn't let you play Half Life 2 without an online account in 2004.
Do you guys not have HDs to save the files you download?
>>742338970*Wouldn't let you play the version purchased over steam without a steam account.If you purchased the DVD version it didn't need steam.
>>742336858https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precedent
>>74233642680 billion digital "preorders" for GTA6 did it actuallyNintendo won
>>742339128>AYEEEE PLEASE DONT BLAME SONY!!!!
>>742339048dumb zoomer. Half Life 2 was literally encrypted on the DVD and you needed to login to Steam for it to be decrypted.
>>742336426It's been 20+ years let it go.
>>742339207Wrong, the sierra DVDs (and the 5cd version) are freely downloadable on internet archive.
So some snoy woke up, saw the news about Sony dropping disks, and is now spamming threads about steam?
>>742339391it's because it's so bad and indefensible they have to damage control somehow
>>742336665This.Give them money and you approve whatever they are doing.If you keep buying from Sony after they kill off discs you are approving what they are doing.If you bought the horse armor you approved DLC.
>>742339306it's a no-Steam cracked version with the files already decrypted you dumbo.The archive page literally describes how you have to install a 3rd part tool and tells you the ENCRYPTION KEYS to extract the files from the CD Version.
>>742339391i thought people in this thread and generally were meme'ing about Snoys seething but god damn. totally mindbroken
It's funny how when console warriors want to brag about their machines Steam is a tiny no-name company that nobody gives a shit out but when they want to ignore that their own cattle-like nature led to the current shit industry then it's all valve's fault
>>742339886Only the collectors edition version, which were only available as a purchase ON STEAM. To get the stupid headcrab plushie (actually that was pretty rad)The retail version doesn't use steam at all but still need a nocd crack since it's got securom.
>>742336858>>742336979No no no no no you see this is acktually steam's fault somehow!!!!!!!!!
>>742338970>GFWL launched in 2007.>SecuROM didn't have online activation before 2006.and both of those things fucking bombed hard.Since 2004 valve is basically offering the same service, while we have modern SecuROM with Denuvo, and Micosoft launched their own subscription plan where you have to keep paying to being able to access their games.steam gradually improved over the years eventually whoever complained initially about HL2 activation was won over because relative to the competition they kept offering a far better service.>m-muh DRM if valve cared so much about their virtually nonexistent DRM (which is not even mandatory to get your game on steam) they would've improved it years ago.
>>742339128that was a ubisoft spokepoerson quote you retard
>>742339391To these people sony can literally never do wrong so ofc they will blame virtually everything they can on someone else.
>>742339909you stay here long enough and eventually you realize fanboyism is actually real.
>>742340146why are you making up lies on the internet?
>>742336426I stopped buying physical copies when they kept putting latinx on the box art and half the box art was obscured in latinx and english.
>>742339391the fact Sony announced in the sapn of a week that>will get rid of 500 digitally purchased movies say goodbye to your digitally purchased goods>will get rid of physical disksin the span of a week didn't sit too well with their fanboys
>>742340574he's writing whatever GPT writes
>>742340790how much of /v/ is just LLM bots?
>>742336426>These cunts killed physical media>need to install day one patches and updates>Press S to spit on them>need to install game data>SSure it was steam, retard
>>742336979>>742336858This is #4theplayas
>>742340963I guess we'll never know a real percentage, but the fact that there's a non-zero chance it's grim enough.
>>742336426physical was dead before steam even went mainstream retailers like gamestop never stocked PC games in big numbers anyway
>>742336426Physical media only became somewhat important due to the retarded decision to classify software as being equivalent to literature for copyright purposes in a complete double standard, because the original work done by humans here is the source code and assets, not the output of the compiler, a technicality that has been used to reject copyright for AI and animal produced works (staged photos where the animal is prodded into taking the photo).This then allowed companies to insist that they were only selling you a license, which was countered by right of first sale, which made the physical media important. EXCEPT that the EU also recognizes digital downloads as being equivalent to physical media for the purposes of right of first sale (US is a bit more wishy washy about it, because current copyright was already unconstitutional before denying you the right of first sale), so the companies can't actually legally oppose you reselling your license, but they're relying on the same bullshit that has allowed them to keep forcing you to agree to unenforceable EULAs, which is that governments are too lazy to actually force them to enable you to do this, so there's no infrastructure in place to facilitate it.Physical was outdated as soon as the internet became a more convenient way for people to transfer data than carrier pigeon tier shit, which is the exact bullshit that companies used to push for more severe copyright overreach, since they were behind the times and unable to sell you shit conveniently without government intervention in the form of the DMCA. Piracy has always chosen the most convenient form of transfer and that form has been digital downloads for decades.
>>742339391First time? This is what snoys do.
>>742336426So I guess this is the time for you to move on to Steam since games run better than on console and the PS6 will be more than one grand, you have absolutely no advantages anymore.
>>742336426>sony does shit thing, snoy blames othersLmao
>These cunts killed physical mediathey let me backup every game I own to disc thobeit
