What should the 2026 update say?
>What should the 2026 update say?Do ozempic while playing 'eck on 'acht
something something I need muh yachts
you lost and got raped in court, accept it.
>Another seethe threadGet help
>>750219857I miss the Artifact spammer
>>750219857lol
>>750219857"What's the weather in Mumbai?"
Real talk, what part of society (that actually matters) would be affected negatively if digital items were treated as real property and people weren't forced to sign their rights away?It's baffling how many people purport to hate corpos, but spend every waking second defending them and this blatant power imbalance.
>>750227354you chose the future of online only by choosing steam little buddyno going back now
>>750227448The rats at epic did the same thing, and sony, nintendo, microsoft etc. have too. If it wasn't steam as the pioneer they all would have gladly taken that role.You're just as much a cattle as the rest.
>>750219857>>750213782
>>750227636No, i still have my physical drive and burn all my discs. What have you done for physical media in recent times?
>>750227738All drives and discs fail eventually, and they're slowly but surely pricing consumers out of hardware. Even bugmen aren't going to be supplying that shit forever. They're also almost certainly going to push out updates to completely brick OSes that aren't kept updated, just like they do with smartphones.You'll enjoy paying subscriptions and for cloud gaming eventually. Being a smug "at least I got mine" nigger isn't going to fix anything, you'll just be joining the rest of us a little later, that's all.
>>750227738Any response to this physical media-san?>>750227973Very interesting reply long term thinking-san.
>>750228121You and I both know it's just going to be more smug, tribalistic, dismissive faggotry
>>750227973>You'll enjoy paying subscriptions and for cloud gaming eventuallyif it ever happens, i will not be playing games at that point. or, i will be playing shit released prior to that point. i already don't play most of today's big releases, and that's that. i'm more content with gaming than i ever were, and i will continue to optimize my experience.if you choose to be a bottom feeder, that is on you, and nobody else. the overlords tried it, and you swallowed it.
>>750228445It's not an if, it's a guarantee that your hardware will fail at some point and you won't be able to do anything about it since no one will supply any way to recover, let alone emulate it. "I just won't play anymore" is defeatist too, weird to try and act prideful about it.>Someone pissed and shit all over my house? Heh, I'll just become homeless!Anyway, you seem to lack the self awareness to be able to even remember what I'm saying now some years into the future, but I'll at least take solace in the fact that "I told you so", even if you're too cattle-esque.
>>750228807Older games are not going away anytime soon.Especially when NES/SNES/GBA ROM pack barely occupies much disk space.
>>750227354>digital items were treated as real propertyOdd because every piratefag hates that idea>Uhh this data isn't real so it's fine and justified that I steal it
>>750227354reselling digital is a financial disaster in making and whoever does it will turn into a case study
>>750229274Treating digital items in the same manner as real physical property would precisely mean that you couldn't condemn piracy because the original data isn't degraded. What I assume you meant is to enforce "intellectual" ""property"" which wouldn't be a change at all because that's what is currently in books of law, which anon above precisely talks about changing.
>>750229017They will stop working eventually. I'm sorry you're too stupid and smug to realize you're on borrowed time, but hey, at least you got yours right?>>750229274What is this blatant revisionism? You aren't too socially adept, are you?>>750229782That's only because the system for doing so is shit. You should be able to trade games in for funds, or trade games with others on platforms like steam. I have games I know I will never play again, and so do my friends or other users. It would be effortless to implement an option to swap the ownership of games between account libraries. Currently you can only do so with "extra copies" and only for gifts or in-game items for games that support trading.The only reason this isn't the case is because corporations currently enjoy the licensee slave relationship they have with their consumers.
>>750231564yesit'd be easybut it'd kill any long term revenue for developers30-40% of physical already gets resolddigital reselling would be way easier and have no downsides
>>750219857>teehee. i'm just a cute little girl, don't mind me
>>750233573based
>>750227354The only part that matters, the wealth of the Chosen tribe.
>>750231564>They will stop working eventually. I'm sorry you're too stupid and smug to realize you're on borrowed time, but hey, at least you got yours right?Sucks for you AAA babies, but I can continue enjoying emulation and romhacks and older games for decades. Hell, I still have an old laptop from 2014 that I can use for emulation, if my main PC ever fails, and I got a Vita, a PSP, a 3Ds. I keep them in mint condition. Failure is ultimately likely, but statistically unlikely anytime soon.
>>750231765Who gives a shit lol>>750234901It's going to affect old games too smugfag, and emulation will be phased out too. Your old PCs and laptops will fail and won't have parts available to fix them since subscription models WILL be commonplace.You'll be forced to pay for the digital versions of your NES era games just like they want :^)
>>750236882so what do you propose as a solution to this problem?
>>750236882>It's going to affect old games too smugfag, and emulation will be phased out too. Your old PCs and laptops will failThey've been doomsaying that for years, but as long as enthusiasts exist, emulation and old games will thrive.Do you know how many unauthorized emulation machines exist right now? And they barely cost more than a couple hundred dollars, since many of them don't need to emulate further than 6th gen.
>>750236882dude people are still maintaining 50+ year old arcade cabinets
>>750219857*Mongolian throat singing noises*
>>750227354>if digital items were treated as real propertyHere they already are. Once you buy a song, movie, game etc you own the license to it forever. If you lose access to your copy the publisher is required to replace it.
Remember a few years ago Valve fought France in court to stop them from allowing transfer or sale of your digital game license
>>750237157IDK, some consumer rights for one? Like actually owning digital items, and not signing up to be a license slave forever, which from common sense alone is baffling that it's even allowed to begin with.>>750237438>muh doomAnd they've been right? Many PC components have 3x'd, then 3x'd AGAIN in price in the last 10 years. All because manufacturers wanted to:>compete with scalpniggers, bragged about retards buying scalped hardware on ebay for several times higher than MSRP, wanted to match the prices>keep letting big corporations order shittons of hardware, completely fucking over supply for consumers and inflating prices>many CEOs are now openly bragging about moving to a sub/cloud model "so you don't have to worry about hardware anymore :)"So being a dismissive dipshit does no favors to you here, it just shows how wilfully ignorant and retarded you are, that's all.>muh unauthorized emulation machinesWhich will also be phased out,. It's not in the best interest of corporations to let people do so, after all.>>750237919Here, where?>>750237950Uhhh sorry, that's just doomposting or something, you should just go emulate in your cave and handwave any and all valid complaints when you come out of it that everyone else chose to engage with instead of falling to retreatism.
>>750237812Surely there's a bit more nuance to be had in that peabrain than just thinking of outliers, yeah?
>>750233573based and mootpilled
>>750238609>And they've been rightOnly for top of the line hardware. Older computers have been nice and stable. Sucks for anyone who wants an RTX 5090, but my two GTX 1650s will last me.
>>750238769>sucks but I got mineAnd this is why you're a fag. Why do you think your opinion is even worth a damn in this context?
>>750239245If you're so desperate for muh realistic graphics, that you'll lap up the diarrhea that is cloud service gaming, you get what you deserve.
>>750227354digital property doesn't exist cause at the end of the day, they are just binary 0s and 1s. What matters the most is the hardware and storage data.
>>750240161Being a dismissive fag once again, I see.>>750240521Real property doesn't exist cause, at the end of the day, 99.999999% of atoms are empty and the physical world you interact with is actually because of electromagnetic forces, and those illusory cartridges and disks are binary 0s and 1s at the end of the day, too.You both have autism, and not the good kind of autism.
>>750219857Demon Gabe looking confused at the rest of the industry because he's still better than all of them.
>>750227354Digital items are items that can be infinitely replicated with basically no cost and no degradation of quality. They can also be sent over the internet with very little friction. If they were treated like any other item then they would become completely worthless. Imagine if everybody got the magic ability to turn dirt into gold. Gold would lose all of its value immediately.
>>750243568Gold would lose value as a currency, yes, but it actually has practical usage, like being used in electronics, so it wouldn't become worthless. We already have an IRL example of something worthless being infinitely made, it's called inflation.
>>750243568What a mind bogglingly retarded and ignorant post.The only reason anything has value is because of everyone pretending it does. It used to be backed by fucking rocks, now it's backed by literally nothing for decades. We are quite literally handing each other Monopoly Money, if even. Most transactions are digital too, now, so it's even more ironic to say this shit when we are literally not even handing anyone any physical item to denote value.Like this >>750244002 guy posted here too it just highlights how fucking absurd this little game that the world plays is. You don't understand shit.
Also, by this dumbass "logic" services without any physical forms that can be held in your hands shouldn't make any money either. Live entertainment goes bye bye, no more circuses, magic shows, plays, concerts, etc.What a stupid faggot.
