Yeah, I feel exactly zero sympathy for anyone who bought any Sony products knowing how willing they are to screw their customers. You were warned with the rootkit fiasco, then again when "Other OS" was removed from the PS3 and yet nobody cared because "muh gaymz", so fuck 'em, Sony and their idiotic fanbase.
If people actually valued the idea of being able to "own" the bits you pay for, you would not own a console. Hell, a person doesn't "own" a console anyway... it is "rented" with the ability for MS/Sony to brick it for any reason.
If people were smart, they would sell their consoles for a crazy low price, just to crater the used market, and then push for PC games. While games on consoles will be rendered gone, I can still use the CDs and DVDs I bought for Windows games, or run the installer that Steam provi
Yeah - I go in with expectation that the convenience now outweighs the potential to lose the games in the future. Also, the fact that steam games are maintained is not insignificant. It's not like I can run my Warcraft II CD without a ton of workarounds to set up the environment. I know that when I install C&C from steam, they've done the work to make it function on a modern computer.
actually I have found that older titles runs much better in the GOG version than the steam version. fallout 3 is a prime example of a steam game that simply doesnt run on any windows 10 computer at all. however I also have it on GOG and the GOG version runs on all my computers (I have 9 modern as in 2016 and newer and semi modern as in 2009 and newer gaming rigs/laptops/aio systems as well as a lot more older and very old systems)
Sony, leading the way. (Score:1)
Defective By Design.
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Yeah, I feel exactly zero sympathy for anyone who bought any Sony products knowing how willing they are to screw their customers. You were warned with the rootkit fiasco, then again when "Other OS" was removed from the PS3 and yet nobody cared because "muh gaymz", so fuck 'em, Sony and their idiotic fanbase.
Nope, zero sympathy (Score:0)
If people actually valued the idea of being able to "own" the bits you pay for, you would not own a console. Hell, a person doesn't "own" a console anyway... it is "rented" with the ability for MS/Sony to brick it for any reason.
If people were smart, they would sell their consoles for a crazy low price, just to crater the used market, and then push for PC games. While games on consoles will be rendered gone, I can still use the CDs and DVDs I bought for Windows games, or run the installer that Steam provi
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> I can still use the CDs and DVDs I bought for Windows games, or run the installer that Steam provided.
For some reason you seem to assume that Steam will last forever.
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They have stated that even if Steam went away, they will make a way for your purchased games to function.
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They have stated that even if Steam went away, they will make a way for your purchased games to function.
Steam won't just go away. It will be sold, and your Steam DRM removal patch will never happen.
I have Steam games, but I don't expect them to become non-Steam games, ever. I just don't spend anything on them I'm not willing to lose.
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Re: Nope, zero sympathy (Score:1)