While Valve is objectively better and more insulated from anti-consumer policies as a privately held company with good ownership…
I still have reservations about having my eggs in one basket with Valve, though I have a substantial Steam library. Someday Gabe will retire and/or the competition will stop shooting itself in the foot. As a result, the current customer friendly behavior may shift and then all bets are off.
If that were to come to pass, I think we’d see a huge jump in 🏴☠️ 🦜
Consoles have exclusive digital marketplaces for their games. At least physical games provided a veil of competition. I don’t particularly like that PC games are effectively digital only now but I can still choose where I buy my game I don’t really own.
Because when your ToS states you’re purchasing a license to play the game instead of the actual game itself, physical media becomes important.
What can you do if your favorite game is removed from your account? You have the option to pirate it. But console owners don’t without jailbreaking. Which gets harder and harder each generation.
Furthermore, ToS can be changed at any time, and the fines Sony will pay for a ToS violation doesn’t give you your game back. So a physical disk is a way to avoid random ToS changes.
The reason why you don’t (usually) see content completely removed from PC is because they know you can and will just pirate it if they take it away from you.
As a PC gamer, I just cannot understand the level of overreacting happening about discs no longer being provided.
Oh no! Not the optical media!
The root issue for me is Sony has deleted content you bought. That’s a big fuck you.
Valve has not. They unlist, but you can always get it.
While Valve is objectively better and more insulated from anti-consumer policies as a privately held company with good ownership…
I still have reservations about having my eggs in one basket with Valve, though I have a substantial Steam library. Someday Gabe will retire and/or the competition will stop shooting itself in the foot. As a result, the current customer friendly behavior may shift and then all bets are off.
If that were to come to pass, I think we’d see a huge jump in 🏴☠️ 🦜
Consoles have exclusive digital marketplaces for their games. At least physical games provided a veil of competition. I don’t particularly like that PC games are effectively digital only now but I can still choose where I buy my game I don’t really own.
Because when your ToS states you’re purchasing a license to play the game instead of the actual game itself, physical media becomes important.
What can you do if your favorite game is removed from your account? You have the option to pirate it. But console owners don’t without jailbreaking. Which gets harder and harder each generation.
Furthermore, ToS can be changed at any time, and the fines Sony will pay for a ToS violation doesn’t give you your game back. So a physical disk is a way to avoid random ToS changes.
The reason why you don’t (usually) see content completely removed from PC is because they know you can and will just pirate it if they take it away from you.
I don’t see what octopi have to do with anything hear