How did we let it get this bad?
>2028: Where are my games?
>>743259769>2034: WHERE ARE MY EYES
>representing yourself as the guy who sucks dick and eats shit
>2032 where am I??
>>743259769where are the feelies niggawhere is my mapwhere is my coin
>>743259769>2040: where's where
>>743259769>empty case that takes up space on a shelfTruly peak goyim moment
>>743259769>the case still has the plastic inserts for the booklet and disc, they are just emptypeak goyim humiliation ritual, imagine not working towards the collapse of this society
Cvcksole trinketfags deserve worse
>>743259769>2050: where's waldo?
>>743259769
>>743260321The future is dark and full of terror
Videogames are an inherently digital medium, physical distribution through cartridges and discs was only ever done out of necessity. Digital distribution has now progressed enough to render physical obsolete.If you MUST have your games on physical media, move to PC and download cracked games to USB sticks or something.
>>743259948That's exactly what they want.Same thing with Joker Au Deux
>>743260676You are such a basic fucking bitch nigger
>>743260321one day, corporations will shove a hot iron rod up people's asses and someone will ask "WHAT? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?"sometimes i look at the shit people tolerate and relate to the evil corporate overlords who just see people as cattle to be exploited. We have seen example after example of things getting worse and there will always be one faggot saying "I don't think it's that bad" or "how does it affect you personally?"there are some people out there that wake up with no other desire than to suck cocks and be gigantic faggots that make the world a worse place for everyone, I will never get over it
>>743260984If you want cheap games move to PC and buy them on sale. I boughted 37 games for $11 last week.
>>743259769This is exactly what socialists warned you about but you were too fixated on some gay website rivalry with reddit to listen to us. Live in the hell you created mother FUCKER!
>>743260676You're such a fucking idiot. Enjoy your cloud gaming future. Worthless PC faggot
>>743261186moot point you shit sucking tourist
>200x: wow i can buy disc games from many stores>2015: wow i'd rather just buy games from psn with these cash cards i keep buying that are the top selling products at all the game stores i used to buy disc games from like fucking gamestop who now just sells funko pops and t-shirts>2026: they still made discs huh?
>>743260321Daggerfall (1996) was right there
>>743261186>gamesLicenses.
>>743261238>On PC you can have physical games!>On PC you can have cheap games!The only moot point is your kvetching over physical.>>743261232Silence, raped consolecattle.>>743261308That I still have access to after 19 years.
>>743259958kek
>>743259769>2030: Where's the console?
>>743261381>reddit spacing
>Redditlander
>>743259769Netflix and normalfags.
>>743261381But we're not only talking about physical games, you're acting the dullard intentionally because you have no argument for dynamic pricing, other than some subjective personal biases influenced by your own political beliefs. You're a cuck and a nigger dude. Fuck off.
>>743261015In every previous era of the human race we killed those people, what changed?
>Call it a physical copy>Literally isn't a physical copyWhy are jew lawyers refusing to make money on this blatant lawbreaking?
>>743261517>dynamic pricingOnly exists on closed platforms like consoles. Again, raped.
>>743261381When someone starts replying to multiple posts like this you know you are dealing with a genuine shill or just a worthless ragebait faggot desperate for attention.
>>743261542>In every previous era of the human race we killed those people, what changed?Too much quality of life. People rebel when they have no choice left. We still have food, air conditioning, the internet, etc. We are nowhere close to collapse yet.
>>743261601Again, moot point. But keep playing the feckless tourist. I'm sure some faggot believes it.
>>743261542if you want to know the truth, people won't do anything about their situation as long as their basic needs are metit's like the 250k rapes in the UK, it could have literally been 1 million, or 2 million little girls raped and it wouldn't have mattered because at the end of the day, no one is starving, everyone has access to electricity, water and gasyou can literally rape and replace a population as long as everyone has food in their plate at the end of the day, most people won't care
>>743261729You can tell things are about to get insane and kinetic tho, the China style internet lockdown being rolled out across the entire West will be the nail in the coffin for bread and circuses
>>743261714Refute the following statements:>On PC you can have physical games.>On PC you can buy from multiple storefronts.>Every problem created by Sony ending disc support can be solved by moving to PC.
ANY TIME A PC KEK STARTS KEK POSTING I WANT TO BASH HIS SKULL IN!
>>743261572because big corpo will use their jew lawyers too and lobby in government to get away with it.
>>743261938Based
>>743261850Bless your heart. You didn't even read the first post of the thread. We are talking about consoles dude. You need to learn how to read.
>>743261845i don't know honestlythe UK is a great example of how far you can take things and still have a population that believes that voting can solve thingspeople will laugh about 2nd ammenmend larpers but just the fact that the possibility exists that a militia could be form is a big enough deterrent, at least for a while. No idea what Europe will do though, they are quite fuckedunless i'm mistaken I can't remember a time period in history that mirrors what we are going through, where the population is being actively replaced like they are
>>743259769Don’t have this problem on pc
Nintendo always wins. The industry will collapse around them and they will remain. Now that Snoy and Microshit are dead, all that's left is Gaben to leave his corpulent corpse behind.
>>743262062>We are talking about consoles dudeWhy? Just don't do that. Don't be a consolegroid.
>>743262098For PCûcks you just shift it back several decades. You fags surrendered ages ago, its pathetic.
>>743262165Kind of reminds me of when they said gay marriage wouldn't lead to child grooming
>>743262213I will never forget the power of this shitpost
>>743262098this.
>>743262213child grooming existed before gay marriage tho, mainly by male family members, male teachers, male religious people
>>743262213>THE BOSS BABY MAN
>>743262203I have a USB stick with dozens of games on it on my desk right now, little man. That's more physical games than you've got for your PS5 right now, lmao.
>>743262314what sucks the most about Reddit is that it and its users is that they will never see the amount of destruction of rights they have causedfor all the screeching they have done about the Epstein files, I still haven't seen a single fucking redditor explain how Ghislane Maxwell was the #1 mod in the site
Ha, I knew that would strike a nerve. Good night folks
>>743262314that fourth is happening, we have examples.
lol
>>743262454reddit is 99% bots
>>743262535so is this site.
>>743261015How will this make me want McDonalds? If anything, this will make me avoid the brand and not give any business to them out of spite. Granted, I haven't eaten a McDonalds for almost five years now since their food became abysmal dogshit, but still.
>>743262428*By gay teachers.
>>743262491anonthey are all happening
>>743262671it's just a patent but it shows how they think people are just cattle, like pic relatedsome people's whole MO in life is to wake up, decide they'll be the best cocksucker in the world and go out to do it. Hellscapes and authoritarian regimes don't just appear, it takes people like the faggot in pic related, waking up every day and showing up to work to make the world worse for everyone around themphysical games stopped being a thing? that's because there are 2000 faggots in that company who wake up everyday to show up at their desks to figure out how to do anything but to improve the industry they work at
>>743262086>I can't remember a time period in history that mirrors what we are going through, where the population is being actively replaced like they areThe Assyrians and the Babylonians both methodically did this with places that they conquered. A sizable chunk of the Old Testament is about this period. To see despicable jew lizards doing the same to others should come as no surprise.
>>743262213God damned 1930s marriage equality act
>>743263396as fucked as this was they were probably happier than most couples
>bookletDisgusting zoomers
>>743259769Not how, who.
>>743262671Its relevancy. Its on your mind so when you think of getting something to eat you already think of McDonalds before anything else. Its the same reason they have ads on TV for it, its not to get you to run to get some its that its constantly keeping it relevant in your mind. The worst thing that can happen for a brand is to be forgotten.Reminder, just 2 gens ago they tried to do all this shit, people resisted it so hard that they walked it back. In just 2 gens theyre doing no CDs and people are just shrugging. You have to resist this kind of stuff forever, they only need to get it past once, they will just keep doing shit till it goes through. late stage capitalism is one of those things that makes you understand why there are so many fag commie socialists now, theyre just misguided and think that all this is what capitalism is SUPPOSE to be. This is just monopolies too big to fail that own everything, dictating what the products will be because theres no real choice.Things will get worse, youll pay more for it.
>>743263659>Who did we let it get this bad?retard
>>743259769I miss big box games that came with all sorts of cool shit, maps, tokens, big thick manuals styled as an in universe object. the works.
>>743259769You paid digital in Steam and said it was ok to get rid of manuals/booklets in games.
>>743260321>2035*2030>>743261381>That I still have access to after 19 years.Sweet, naive lemur
>>743261850>On PC you can have physical games.Steam erased their existence.>On PC you can buy from multiple storefronts.Steam's dominance is so big, anything else is irrelevant fighting a lost battle awaiting going out of bussiness>Every problem created by Sony ending disc support can be solved by moving to PC.PC has no physical option when buying games and, very likely, it was the reason why Sony is ending production of it.>>743262203>You fags surrendered ages agoThis. PC used to have glorious physical products until valve loyalists litered the platform
>>743259769>generic dvd case, disc, generic 5 page manual,This still soulless thoPC big box should have been the standard
>>743265534its like boardgames
>>743263494>but muh muhammad has 9yo wives
>>743265534>Rollercoaster Tycoon>Zoo Tycoon>AoE>Starcraft 1>Diablo 2Yep, it's (PC) gaming time
>>743265483Like the rest of your generation. Blaming everyone but yourself.
Funny how the price of storage mediums skyrocketed right around the time this "all digital future" shit started getting real. Like it has to be something other than AI data centers and demand - like they don't want you hoarding, either.
>>743265928I didn't use Steam after years (2010 or so) and even then my limit spending there has been limited since I knew when stop as consumer. Same with consoles and paid online. I'm not the one to blame for much of your coping dismay.
>>743266329The goyim need to own nothing so that Jews can rape children in peace.
>>743266329>Funny how the price of storage mediums skyrocketed right around the time this "all digital future" shit started getting real.I always laugh when vegans on /v/ were trying to make believe prices would deflate and ignored that after ram and gpu, hdd were next on the line
>>743262451Are you fucking stupid and don't know how data and files work? You could leave the games on your computer's hard drive and still make the same claim. You wouldn't put photos, music, movies, etc on a USB and say they're physical copies of them.
>>743266874>You wouldn't put photos, music, movies, etc on a USB and say they're physical copies of them.By that logic games on discs aren't physical copies either. Stop wasting your time on dumb semantics.
>>743265483>another post of physicalfags pretending not to understand things and making shit up
>>743267185>another post of digitalcucks pretending they providing storage and bandwidth for the software they paid access for is having a physical pc game after Steam's advent
>>743267463A game on a usb stick is no different than a game on a disc.
>>743268464>a game in a non-locked storage media is no different than a game in a locked storage media
>>743268628>locked storage mediaNiggas outright makin shit up AGAIN.
>>743268693>vegan child seething making up shitImplying usb sticks aren't rewrittable was bad enough already.
>>743268761Who's gonna rewrite it, nigga?
>>743268797Yourself. It's your usb stick after all and those aren't sold as games but storage media to move data at will.
You have to know they're only doing this because they've been hemorrhaging money and need to cut costs.
>>743268951>Yourself.But why would I do that?>those aren't sold as gamesSo? I put games on it, so now I have games on an external physical storage device.
>>743269106>But why would I do that?Beats me, I'm not you lol>So? I put games on it, so now I have games on an external physical storage device.Not quite; you game software in there but it's digital only data. Your mistake is going full retard and calling data that can be altered in a storage media of choice an equal to a game disc locked from alteration where the disc and game data are the one and provided by the manufacturer/owner of the IP said product comes from. Entirely different from you providing what should be provided by the people you're giving you money.
>>743261186>I boughted 37 games for $11 last week.3rd world VPNs and shovelware bundles don't count
>>743266359Limited your spending and I bet you still don't own a home. Probably have credit card debt as well. You make me laugh.
>>743269395>Not quite; [autistic nonsense]Its the same shit.>nooo they can be alteredJust set them to read-only, lol.
>>743269492>Limited your spending and I bet you still don't own a homeCorrect yet looking for one as I have all the money for it already.>Probably have credit card debt as wellNo, only debit. Credit is bad bussiness, no matter the moment
>>743269539>Its the same shit.No. One is a usb stick and the other is a disc; your own example.
>>743269539>Just set them to read-only, lol.>read-only can be disabledso much for locked usb stick lol
>>743269817>>read-only can be disabledJust don't?
>>743269842But what if I miss click? I'm really fat and stupid, and my hands are ugly thick hotdogs. I shouldn't be punished just because I'm a fat piece of shit
shrinkflation for videogames is sad because all you trannies had to do was not buy it
>>743259769The loss of game manuals is the leading cause of declining literacy rates.
>>743269842>Just don't?Anon, the media in question is open to manipulation defeating your point of comparison for locked down products sold. You only have a usb stick; not a game in physical form. Unless you/game plublishers sell their games in them with no means of alterations and only able to be copied from
>>743269992not really, everything that gets abandoned is just because it doesn't make money, or at least it used to be just a money issuenow it's just demoralization
>>743259769you let women into your hobby.
>>743260321I love PC games are dead after the first image.And by love I mean I still fucking hate it, fuck Steam
>>743270058>the media in question is open to manipulationBut it can't be manipulated by anyone other than me. I've got the USB stick.
>>743259769Remember when the booklets were actually useful?
>>743270152I remember being a small child, yes.
>>743260676Retard, the problem with digital medium is that it's legislated in a way you can not truly own it since it's an intangible asset as it can be easily replicated through infinity theorically, so the companies now are making you pay for something you won't own unlike many if not most of tangible assets. After that the next step which you can already see the impact since September of last year, it's the ability to compute and run locally anything digital, as more it becomes a luxury, the more you're forced to run everything through cloud computing.Never post kozue, nina and anzu attached to such retarded post again.
>>743270104It was always a gaslight, anon. The consumer simply was happy to give it all away only making tantrums when the inminent moment arrives.>>743270145>But it can't be manipulated by anyone other than me. I've got the USB stick.>*steals your usb-stick*What now? Better buy a bigger usbstick, femboi; 240 gb is unusable tier now
>>743270201>the more you're forced to run everything through cloud computing.The cloud gayming boogeyman's been floating around for 20 fucking years and still hasn't amounted to anything.
>>743265692that were forced to be wed, retard-kun
>>743262860this looks uncomfortable as hell wtf
>>743270293It will, you'll cave in since it will be around for longer than you and newer generations will be indoctrinated into it. Quite similar to making healthcare a bussines, digital games and streaming tbqh>>743270201>so the companies now are making you pay for something you won't own unlike many if not most of tangible assets.If only, they're already beyond that point
>>743270104Are you replying to the right person... or are you a sample of the declining literacy rates?
>>743270293I hope you updated your rig last year so at least it lasts you until early 2030. Unless you're rich, you won't be able to run, not only games, but any software because it will force to compute some bullshit unoptimized AI with it.
>>743270420>It will,Any day now, I'm sure.>>743270512Hardware prices will plummet once the AI bubble bursts. The whole thing's been stalling out for months already. Relax.
>Nothing will happenIf nothing is happening, why are we owning less stuff and paying for more?
>>743270630>Any day now, I'm sure.Yes, actually. MS knows and can play the long con with ease
>>743270630>Hardware prices will plummet once the AI bubble burstsAny day now, I'm sure.
>>743270630If the AI bubble burst, the US economy is also going to shit, the same companies and bank will get bail outs but at the end, lots of people will get fired and not only in the game industry and in the long run, you'll purchasing power will decrease.
>>743270639the real redpill is that people are cattle and there is not much you can do about it, they love being nigger cattle
>>743259948A reaction image isn't a fucking avatar, you dumb piece of SHIT.
>>743270692>>743270742>physicalfags' entire argument revolves around a dystopian future where some jeet-coded skynet controls your access to vidya>>743270793>the US economy is also going to shitThe entire economy has already gone to shit. Its not supposed to be K-shaped.
>>743270857>The entire economy has already gone to shit.For decades for the average people, the K shaped behavior is ideal for the shareholders.
>>743270201You don't own the code of a game just because you bought a plastic disc.
>>743270857>a dystopian future where some jeet-coded skynet controls your access to vidya>futureThe future is now, zoomer kid
>>743270945Yeah, but since you own the plastic, I'm able to lend that code or sell it to other people. You just want a corpo to have the power to consume intangible assets.
>>743270945>digitalfags are stupid enough they mix up owning a product from an IP with owning the IP and related to itNever fails to make me shuckle
>>743266329The pressure manufacturers faced from the consumer side to keep improving storage space for regular people evaporated in a puff of smoke once video and audio streaming took off and "the cloud" showed up to deal with phones that had very limited storage space. Supplying enterprise drives to cloud providers and now AI datacenters to hold all their training data and intermediate models is how they make money now, thus there's a reason regular drive affordability peaked at 4TB for HDDs and 1TB for SSDs.
>>743270639this thread and any other like it is unironically swarming with shills and bots
This thread just devolved into shitposting with no side actually being sentient, just spouting bs for the sake of it. You would think is just someone being bored or actual shills being paid for it.
>>743270630>Hardware prices will plummet once the crypto bubble bursts>Hardware prices will plummet once the AI bubble burstsAre you sure there won't be another thing on the horizon? I feel like companies are already abandoning the "AI" buzzword and everybody is talking about "agents agents agents", as if it will trick investors into thinking it's a brand new bubble to invest into.
>>743270978I'm banking on world wars and technological regression in a new dark age. Especially if we can't get to the moon in time to get the helium. Most of the high school kids in my state can only read at a 3rd grade level. And we're basically a stone throw away from the capital of the country. If I were a betting man, I'd not bet against myself.
>>743271084Truly techno feudalism as it most purest expression.
>>743271110i mean, yes, who else but shills would unironically shill for corporationsyou literally win nothing by defending corporations, not a single thing but here we are
>>743262860>>743270409Standing room only planes always sound good until the legal department/PR department comes in and makes the CEOs realize one plane crash with them would bankrupt the airline
>>743270816t. nigger cattle
>>743271084Copyright laws working as expected, let the corpos tell you which stuff you can run or not for most of a fucking century because they need to make money with the same game for every 20 years despite its creators or even the original employees not being involved in it.
>>743271110Yes anon, they are LITERAL corpo shills and AI chatbots, the internet is 87% bot traffic
>>743271143>I'm banking on world wars and technological regression in a new dark ageWorld wars aren't functional anymore, it's why pandemics and rising living costs like access to health care are the new meta. >less than 5 years until the new dangerous virus
>>743271457War on mass is perfectly viable, especially fifth generational. There are not civilians, only combatants.
>>743271406I love when shitposters try to be hyperbolic in their arguments, it makes their pointless presence in a discussion more obvious.
>>743271528Too slow to reduce population, Israel and middle east are tired cards that won't work anymore.
>>743271568Yeah, I've seen whatever that TFR index is, 2.1 or below for most nations. Unless people start procreating like rabbits right now we won't have to worry about a population surplus, even with india, we're all fucked.
>>743260676Why is the PC Master Race Movement suddenly shilling "just copy your games to a USB/Blu-ray"? This same argument keeps getting reposted ad nauseam. I'm even getting tutorials on Youtube about how to burn your Steam games to DVD. Why is this exploding in popularity? It's not the same thing and you know it. There's a $2,000+ entry fee for this.
>>743261015Start murdering then.
>>743271754We're fucked because everyone is convinced that line always must go up when the gains of said line became into passives for the ruling class, making the average american to own less and less.
>thread devolved into a physicalgoon conspiracy theory echo chamber Ironic that digital enjoyers are the ones in tune with reality.
>muh digitalchads vs physicalchuds argumentWhy shitposters try to divide everything into 2 sides?
>>743271916The fear right now is, 'loss of data'. Uncontrollable data. 87% of games made before 2010 are not available for purchase or legal acquisition digitally. We have reports of Disney, Sony, and other major media companies editing the original content in legacy media to make it more acceptable in for a broader market.
>>743272048>conspiracy>in tune>not an arriving reality making lunacy real>not being sheepish consumers
advertising is ridiculous now btw if you hadn't noticed
>>743272179Because digitalfags have MC complex; it was warned what would happen by making digital a thing without restrain but the consumer ignored it. And now here we are, at it's the very start of late game
>>743272204>87% of games made before 2010 are not available for purchase or legal acquisition digitallySo?
>>743272467Government mandated digital identification is inevitable. Eventually you won't be able to use any operating system without first verifying those credentials. Sharing software like we have for the past several decades is no longer viable. You may not like video games, you may even hate video games. But many of us do not, we want to keep them all around.
>>743261261we lost the technology for this
>>743272631>Sharing software like we have for the past several decades is no longer viable.It will always be viable, because no state has the resources to spare on enforcing anti-piracy in any real capacity. You're dreaming up this doomsday scenario where fucking video games are of any real importance.
Would you suck Sony's dick and eat Sony's shit to get discs back?
>>743272778We do have the resources to spare, because all materials used to create our electronics are dwindling. Eventually hardware won't be affordable, eventually you will own a terminal system that is exactly the same as your neighbors.
>>743260676All media is digital these days. That doesn't stop them from still getting physical releases. Every record label still does CDs, every movie still gets a DVD or Blu Ray release. Also, USB sticks die of bit rot if you don't keep refreshing them every few months. Unless you want to keep an emprom reader around to flash ROM chips to hold your games, disc really is the best solution.
>>743272778>because no state has the resources to spare on enforcing anti-piracy in any real capacityWrong; you're already being tracked in your internet browsing.
>>743271334You also are cattle.
>>743272902>imagined doomsday scenario again>>743273001And? I pirate shit every day and no one cares.
>>743273041Why are you calling it a doomsday scenario? This is necessary for humanities ascension and evolution as a species.
>>743260984Stop with your autism, whore.
>>743273041>And? I pirate shit every day and no one cares.>he doesn't knowIt's arriving where you live. Data hoard as much as you can btw
Video games are dogshit. Mass consumption is dogshit. There are only a few games worth buying each year anyway and once those go away, you'll just have to find some other medium to waste time with. Video games are becoming like cable TV, something largely unmemorable and worthless. Who wants to retain ownership of something so cheap and disposable? Maybe we should go back to the days when each system only had a handful of games and they were all good, and once you were done you went outside and lived life.
>>743273298>Maybe we should go back to the days when each system only had a handful of games and they were all good, and once you were done you went outside and lived life.you can't go back to that.
Question regarding physical media though.Where the fuck are they gonna store it?CoD at it's worst would need two of the largest blu-rays ever made which go for like $30 a pop alone and that's assuming any publisher would opt for the biggest disk size instead of cheaper smaller ones.This is more about devs not optimizing their filesizes than an out but given how bloated AAA releases are now it just isn't feasible for their fuckmassive data sizes to be on disk.In a perfect world every dev would be doing a Helldivers 2 moment and reducing the filesize by like 80% but this isn't a perfect world.
>>743273257>its arriving aaaa its happening the sky is fallinggggg
>>743273402nta but now im 100% convinced youre some type of shill/fed
>>743273378>Where the fuck are they gonna store it?On a shelf like everything else. Only zoomers living in a japanese cubicule see a trouble when it comes to space
>>743273507Are you deliberately being obtuse?
>>743273378Developers don't optimize because they have no incentive to. If they were forced to fit a maximum file size they would.
>>743259948BUT I’M ALL OUT OF SHIT!
>>743273378>This is more about devs not optimizing their filesizes than an out but given how bloated AAA releases are now it just isn't feasible for their fuckmassive data sizes to be on disk.With how games keep trying to do as-a-service stuff with gamepasses and dlc etc, the huge filesize benefits corporations both by locking out other competitors by way of lowering how many other games a console's hard drive can hold, and lowering the chance of someone uninstalling it to try out another game in the first place, as getting the original back will take extra long.This can backfire but usually doesn't.
>>743259769>2006 - XBOX 360>2015 - XBOX 360Is this an error? Last console was PS2, have been PC only since.
>>743273402>windows knows where your hands go and do in your keyboard>google knows your location at basic level>Some ISP have implemented strike measures against piracy>NSA built an entire facility for internet surveillance>Some goverments thought SK tier measures are something they should copy>Copyright enforcement has only expanded as years passed on the internet>"I-It's a tinfoil conspiracy, I will pirate games forever just like now reeee"when you assume it's a given it's when you're more prone to lose it.
>>743273683bingo
>>743273559No, are you? Because game cases have consistently getting smaller making having them a non-issue.
>>743261015maybe the way to win the game is by refusing to play
>>743273683Nothing has happened, and nothing will happen.
>>743273843>Nothing has happenedYears ago a lot of people received letters of strikes from their ISP
>>743273875Miss me with that shit.
>>743273843>>743273928this is a paid shill
>>743273843You are not a serious person.
>>743273928No, you can't also use vpn as some countries are deeming them illegal. Same with proxies btw
>>743259769>where's the console?
>>743274112I'm starting to brush up on off grid mesh networks, the tech gets better every year, and I'm pretty sure eventually this is going to morph into a second internet, or whatever something, But as soon as VPN get the hammer, I'm out.
>>743274294>I'm pretty sure eventually this is going to morph into a second internet, or whatever somethingNo, internet itself was a creation of goverments and joint private efforts; you're merely playing into their playground and now they're in the process of taking control of it.
>>743274592Well, the cables at least. Until someone like Russia realizes they can just cut em and kill the whole thing project. Which I'm not exactly opposed to.
>>7432746801) the cables are resistant as fuck and are underwater; good luck reaching them2) Satellite driven internet like Elon Musk has triedNo way to run from it; I'd love those cables cut myself but not easily accessible for anyone at civillian level
>>743273376We can destroy the gaming industry by just not buying this shit. Indie games will fill the void. People still make brand new Game Boy games on cart despite the console supposedly "dying" 20 years ago.
>>743275226Too late for all of that; it should've been in the 7th generation.
>>743259769You keep buying
>>743272967>That doesn't stop them from still getting physical releasesCan you show me a Factorio disc released by the dev? No? One of the most popular video games on Earth that's sold millions of copies hasn't shipped out a single disc? Funny.
>>743275226>Indie games will fill the void95% of indie games do not have a single physical component at sale. It would be 100% if it weren't for consoles forcing the issue. You need to pick a lane with this physical media shit.
>>743259769My Sim City 3000 Unlimited big box from schoolastic book order came with a literal spiral bound textbook on how to git gud at the game
>>743278404Evercade and Limited Run sell indie games, physical games
>>743259769watched the last episode of the boys with my mom after not seeing an episode of it before and it honestly lowered my opinion of her a bit in her taste of media. I have never seen more abysmal writing and dialogue in a show. Like genuinely actual dogshit that i would be embarrassed to put my name on and put it into production. to keep it relevant to the thread, im glad snoys are getting raped and gaped. Ive been telling you for over a decade now that your drm boxes are gigantic pieces of shit.
>>743271334t. autist in kekshed
>>743259769I don't now why companies didn't just take a "premium" approach to physical media. The industry is run by people that don't like games. I guess that's the answer.
>>743259769Frog got boiled.
Let the goyim deal in the real world.
PS4 / PS5 cases are fucking garbage anyways. Easily damaged case artwork even for sealed games. If there's one good thing about this it's I don't have to deal with factory defective bullshit or retarded online sellers anymore.
>>743278404My lane is let the free market decide. If Sony wants to lose its gaming division just like Microsoft, let it. No company is too big to fail. People will buy what they want. Record sales are at a 40-year high thanks to the free market. The music industry faced a near-collapse before that happened and many rich people became poor. Let's have game execs beg on the street too.
>>743260676Much of the world still has to deal with>inconsistent Internet connection>slow speeds>data capsThere are entire markets that Sony is effectively throwing away with this decision.
>>743273594Based shitter
>>7432597696 of 10 Sony shareholders are from Blackrock.
>>743270201If you're in the EU, then it is legislated identically and it is an intangible asset regardless of whether it is stored on disc or communicated via download, as decided in the Usedsoft v. Oracle case.Cloudshit has nothing to do with the physical vs. digital debate, it is arguably closer to the console vs. PC debate, since it's about owning your own computer and not renting something you have no control over.
So if its "no disc no buy" why are they... moving to PC?
>NNNOOOOO I need a booklet that tells me how to play the game AND I need a plastic disc spinning 50000 RPM inside the console to truly enjoy a game!Boomers are weird, get with the times, buy digital games.>b-b-b-but muh non-existant physical collection!You're going to be dead in 40 years, nothing lasts forever.>b-b-bUH-but what about lending games to my friendsYou don't have friends.
>>743283029If we're being forced to go all-digital then it only makes sense to use the most consumer-friendly platform for digital games.
>>743260321STOP
>>743261186>I boughted 37 games for $11 last week.you actually play any of them?
>>743259769You're not gonna want to hear this, but high-speed internet is a lot of why this shit happens now.
>>743281848They don't care about those regions and think that those places are irrelevant to their bottom line.
>>743281848>inconsistent Internet connectionThis is only an issue for always online, not downloading>Slow speedsJust wait longer, can't be worse than waiting for actual carrier pigeon delivery nah just a joke, unlike carrier pigeons, delivery drivers don't know where they're going even with a GPS.>Data capsMy condolences to the USA.All of this still affects physical. Always online and additional downloads don't stop being a thing with discs. Being out in the sticks is also starting to be less of a problem with more methods of getting a data connection becoming available.>>743283029Because they still have administrative control over their own PC. If some distributor decides to stop licensing random slop, then they can tell your console to delete it, but they can't really tell your PC to do anything without your permission.
>>743260129do you expect them to make new machines in their factories for bookletless, diskless cases? of course not they just reuse the ones they have.
>>743263396>>743263494>>743265692>>743270328You absolute retards, this photo was taken by an advocacy group who was petitioning Congress to put into law a higher age of consent.It was spread around the public to show how fucking gross some religious groups behaved if allowed free reign. It caused mass outrage and the bill passed.
>>743263396>SneedvilleStill gets me every time
So how come SKG is suppressed hard here if the game devs think that there is nothing to lose with it being legalized?
>>743261015As you shouldAlways victim blame or you won't solve anything
>>743259948So what? I had an ex-girlfriend suck my dick after anal one time and yet I never disparaged her for doing it.
>>743261261Feels like it wasn't that long ago that I would always see several copies of the Diablo and Starcraft battle chests at my local store just sitting there for years. And they were pretty cheap too.
>>743266329If you didn't buy hard-drives after seeing the price spike and then stagnate for years following coronavirus; then that's your problem.
Sadly, nobody in this thread will understand they are part of the problem
>>743259769The first image is already the gay version. Bring back proper fucking 300 page manuals and cloth maps.
