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  • TimothyOilpants@lemmy.catoPolitical Memes@lemmy.ca•Could any political messaging analysts please help us decipher what this means
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    9 days ago

    You’re unhinged. Your actual views are clear, and contrary to the social contract of a peaceful civilization. You’re getting ratioed into oblivion across this entire thread and not one person has agreed with anything you’ve said.

    No one cares what you have to say, and your scrambling to rationalize and justify your heinous opinions would seem to indicate you need some serious introspection and likely some psychiatric care.

    You will receive no further replies from me; you’re dangerous and I don’t entertain the type of rhetoric you’re promoting.

    There is still time to work on improving your character.

    Do better.

  • TimothyOilpants@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•Gamers push back: 71% say they’re not ready to let physical games die as PlayStation and Xbox move toward a digital-only future”English
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    14 days ago

    Both Microsoft and Sony had this exact infrastructure built ready to go for Xbox One and PS4 prior to launch.

    We were going to get full digital collections with a marketplace that would allow entitlement sales AND the ability to loan entitlements to friends for set periods of time.

    When Microsoft announced the plans at E3 2013, a whiny minority of “core gamers” kicked up such a fuss that Microsofts stock tanked and they backpedalled… Sony hadn’t made any announcements yet and presented the EXACT opposite of Microsoft’s plan literally 8 hours later despite the fact that their existing hardware DevKits and system software functioned exactly as Microsoft had described. Sony got to look like the “hero” while both of them then scrambled to completely reengineer their hardware and system software prior to launch…

    We lost a bright future that day.

  • TimothyOilpants@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•Gamers push back: 71% say they’re not ready to let physical games die as PlayStation and Xbox move toward a digital-only future”English
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    14 days ago

    The commitment to physical media has crossed the line from nostalgia into change resistance, driven by manufactured conspiracies. This transition is in the best interest of the majority of gamers; the vocal minority is just out of touch with how the broader community actually consumes that media.

    For millennia, non-static art (song, theater, performance, and oral storytelling) existed purely in ephemeral mediums without physical storage. The concept of “owning” a physical piece of interactive software is a historical anomaly that has existed for barely forty years.

    Economically and technologically, video games are the cheapest and most accessible they have ever been. Simultaneously, the depth, breadth, and quality of content are light-years ahead of what was imaginable in the 80s. We are living through the golden age of the medium, yet critics are lamenting the hypothetical loss of the 99% of games they were never going to replay in ten years anyway.

    Like it or not, software IS fundamentally a service now. A modern video game is not a static painting or a collectible display piece like a Funko Pop to put on your shelf; it’s a dynamic, adaptive, and interactive ecosystem shaped by ongoing player data and developer iteration. Holding a plastic disc hostage provides no value when that disc only contains an unpatched, broken, Day 0 build of the game at its literal worst.

    The romanticization of physical games is no different than audiophiles insisting that vinyl is the only “pure” way to experience music. It is an aesthetic preference masquerading as a consumer rights crusade.