If it requires external verification to use, beyond the users control, you have paid for a temporary service not for a permanent product.This goes for Nintendo's keycards, every digital download from Sony and the entirety of Steam.You have picked convenience over ownership. Enjoy.
Here's an ugly perspective for your ragebait thread OP: does it matter?As long as the service lasts until I no longer care about it or until I die does it matter that it's a service?I'm not going to play modern slop when I'm 97 anyway so why should I care if something I bought in my 20s is still available to me?
>>749522260>why should I care whether I own thingsYou shouldn't. Leave that to your superiors.
>>749522260Of course not. But you are betting on for-profit companies very generously keeping your service alive, with no rules, contracts, laws or regulations in place to make them do so. You are giving a lot of faith to people who would rather you rebuy their remaster.
>749522162Amusing that you conveniently left out Microsoft entirely from your little speech
>>749522162>lumping PC in with console nuggetsThe whole point of being on PC is not being beholden to some Jewish companyIf valve shut down tomorrow they can't take away my games because I already have them, how are they going to stop me playing them? Nintendo or Sony on the other hand...
>>749522467Who? Xbox doesn't exist in this timeline and Windows works without an internet connection (for now).
>>749522162Still not buying your locked down cuckbox, marketer-kun.
>>749522525>If valve shut down tomorrow they can't take away my games because I already have them, how are they going to stop me playing them?You can try this right now, you uninstall Steam and launch your favorite Steam-bought game. Good luck.
>>749522260>does it matter?Not anymore because Nintendo's doing it.That's the answer to your question. Codes in empty plasticthat required dowloads were evil and damnable for getting in the way of physical ownership yada yada yada.....until GKCs came around. Then those things became petty inconveniences to be overlooked.
>>749522635You dont need luck, just goldberg. Sorry cuck, you lose.
>>749522807Concession accepted.
>>749522742thisit only matters until [company that is my identity] does it in which case it no longer matters
>>749522874>Steam cant take away my games>uninstall Steam and launch your favorite Steam-bought game>sure, let me just replace a single file in the source code->NONONO THAT DOESNT COUNT YOU CANT DO THAT I WIN CONSNEED ALREADY WAAAAAHHH!!!!!I can tell you've lost this argument several times already lol
>>749522525>The whole point of being on PCNo no, that WAS the whole point, it isn't anymore. It was. Was.Now you're stuck on a Windows running Steam with your Nvidia GPU. Epic is practically just Steam But Chinese Instead, GOG exists on donations, AMD is one bad quarter from shutting down completely, Intel tried making GPUs but no one bought them and Linux is losing marketshare daily.You had your chance to support the competition but you didn't and you fell for the same convenience trap consoletards are falling for as we speak.
>>749522162You are correct but you dared to call out cults so everyone will call you retarded.
Would it not be cheaper in the long run to just put the data on the card instead of using bandwidth and running piracy checks on these cuck carts?
>>749523185No really, bandwidth cost peanuts nowadays
>>749523054>if I just retroactively change my argument and move the goalposts I can pretend I win discussions on the internetI can tell you need this one so I'm going to be nice and just let you have it.
>>749523054>source codeYou have no idea what words mean, do you?
>>749522260>wow imagine wanting to pay for goods>I rent my wife>they can have her before and after
>>749523185Depends on how long the run is. It is more profitable if they can resell you the game on the Swith 5 when the server for the game on the Switch 2 is shut down.
>>749523340>You're retroactively changing your argument that Steam cant take away your games! >Even though you just proved how powerless steam really is and that they cant take away your games!Going to be nice, lol. Not all tendies are angry children, but they always seethe and cry like them.
>>749523054y-you think buying a game on steam gives you access to the source code...?
>>749523185>instead of using bandwidthWhich they do anyways. Sony's own data proved people will download the latest updated version of their games and be done with it instead of installing an outdated physical and then needing to download the updates. Bandwidth costs are permanent. But physical media costs are not. GKCs let them cheap the fuck out onstorage size and production cost
>>749523257If that's the case, then why is streaming limited on Xbox Game Pass?
>>749523480>when the server for the game on the Switch 2 is shut downSo never? You can still download your wii eshop purchases, 20 years later. In 20 years you will be able to pirate and emulate switch 2 games easily.
>>749523753Downloading a static file from a server isn't the same as running a game on a server needing massive amounts of cpu, ram and gpu resources then streaming the screen back to you anon, two different things.
>>749523778No... 20 year is not the same as never. Good try though.
>>749524070Well, it has never happened before, so never still applies.
>>749524136Yet... no risk in gambling on them keeping the service open for free at a loss forever you think?
>>749522260I believe you should kys
>>749523054You have to understand anon, tendies cant access game files or install folders in any way because their corporate gods ruled that they didnt need to. Therefore they think any argument where PChads tamper with their games is "cheating" and "goalpost moving" because they literally cannot do it. Yeah, these are the retards trying to tell you about ownership. Lol indeed.
>>749524348What the fuck does gambling have to do with the topic at hand?No, obviously it can't run eternally but so far, it has NEVER happened. So saying never is true. Are you dense or something?
/v/ is a fanclub and calling out every club isn't going to result in the healthiest crowd debating the topic op
>>749524474Do you often cheer yourself up with samefagging?
>>749522162SKG actually tried to save you from this.
>>749522260yeah it does matter to me, which is why I'm not buying physical DRMsorry your pathetic shilling didn't work!
>>749524903>I'll just buy digital DRM instead!:)
>>749524972>digital DRMConsolecuck problem :D
>>749522162Every keycard game is also on the eshop. This is a non issue.
>>749524809That's a very weird accusation to make, especially if you're the same tendie that got btfo and ran away.
>>749522260First post worst post as always.
>>749522162>every digital download from Sony and the entirety of Steam.You can easily rip games out of the Steam API and play them without it.Can't do that on a console tho
>>749525007Haha!
>>749522635All of them work. What was your argument again?
>>749523625I think he meant to say source folder, but with AI, you can pretty much turn any copy of the game into source code. Just a thought.
>>749525237My sides!
>>749525557>you lie>I suggest [game] I know won't work>you say you don't play [game] because you don't have shit taste>I walk away knowing I was correct>you act smug as if you've won despite never disproving my pointI just saved us 30ish minutes. Depending on how quickly you can find the smug anime whore in your reaction image folder.
Why would I buy anything that isn't on GOG?
>>749525713>meanwhile in reality>getf btfo by goldberg>DOESNT COUNT!!! >continues seething impotentlyThis happened already itt, btw. It's so pathetic that the only arguments you win are ones you dream up in your head, it's not even funny anymore
>>749525713>I suggest [game] I know won't workSounds like a skill issue.
>>749525713>I suggest [game] I know won't workStar wars outlaws, aka the only denuvo game right now that isnt cracked or bypassed yet. But maybe you'll mix your playbook up a little and try something else. Go on.
>>749522260>t. subhuman bugman
>>749523185The real reason is the new Switch 2 carts only had two options available, 16GB or 64GB, no in-between.That's why you see stupid cases where the Switch 1 versions have a game cart but Switch 2 only has a GKC option. They introduced a 32GB cart recently, so maybe new releases will be more physical.
When it comes down to it, people are fine with 20 to 30 year rentals. They'll be chomping at the bit for a remaster to fix this clunky ahh unc game by then anyway. How many people experience PS2 games on a real console off an official disc these days (the last time games came complete) anyway?
>>749522525>how are they going to stop me playing them?steamapp.dll
>>749522162>If it requires external verification to usesure, but that has nothing to do with your image at all.
>>749527084>bypasses it completelyPssssh, nothing personnel, kid.
>>749522260I understand why you'd think that but imagine the people that have no other hobbies but videogame and videogame collecting. You just snatch that shit from them and kill their love for it for bullshit reasons.
>>749525061Could've proven it with a screenshot but you didn't
>>749527558>but imagine being a mentally ill collectorfagNo thank you
>>749522260The issue with this is you can stop caring or forget about a game for years then one day wake up a feel like playing it again but what if the service ended during that time and it was never ported to what ever the new console is at that time?
>>749528024*and
>>749528024Play something else idk
>>749522260>As long as the service lastsI'll just go play my 3DS game onlin-ACKKKKK
>>749527192You must own one of those magical keycards that come with all the data on them. If only all games had that...
>>749527627how does a screenshot prove not samefagging?
>>749528024Well I hear the kids do this emulating thing because they don't want to play on "dusty ahh decaying plastic". So probably something like that.
>>749529928You will never be able to afford the kind of rig needed to emulate current gen.
