CornDogCologne

I only care about profitability in that it creates a sustainable environment for studios to create products.

If they are thrust into an environment where they must produce things for limited profit so they can be packaged into a subscription service for far less than they are actually worth, that is poor management.

I want to see studios like id thrive. Gamepass ensures that they will not.

I don’t mind paying 60-80 bucks per game to ensure I get a quality game like doom that I can access whenever I want. I detest the idea of paying a lesser amount per month to rent doom which inevitably leads to the failure of the studio that makes it.

Game pass is a shite idea and it needs to die before it kills off or neuters any other studio I care about. The only reason it was conceived was due to desperation after getting skullfricked by Sony in sales after botching the Xbox one launch terribly. One bad business decision begets another.

If the best thing your platform offers is a subscription model, your platform sucks. Full stop. :lol:

My primary concern with the loss of a physical market is that Sony is going to have a de facto monopoly with their digital storefront. Retailers, secondary markets, and the like create an incentive for digital sales. That will all go away now.

It’s obvious that the market largely preferred digital regardless but I wonder if the sales will diminish in a purely digital market.

It’s not a one to one comparison when you look at pc which has been fully digital for a while. The pc market has various digital storefronts in direct competition with one another, discount key sites, easier options for piracy, etc.

I don’t care about physical at all for my own consumer preferences but it’s a concern about where Sony goes from here.

I'm always floored by the stalwart defense of corporations that in no way deserve that level of devotion.

The trends over the past decade have all been negative. It's not that I am clutching my pearls about moving to digital. I already buy all my stuff digitally. It's that I have zero goodwill for any of these greedy passionless corrupt cocksuckers and I don't trust them to do anything positive.

The trend has been less consumer choice, more predatory pricing, longer development periods for lesser products.

The only rebuttal seems to be 'why u mad, bro?'. :lol:

PC focused services will benefit greatly from this, but you are still just moving from one digital storefront to another.

You can potentially use GOG to archive some installers/files but that is a little tedious.

The weakening of the console market might lead to the pc storefronts becoming aware of their increased market share which could lead to some additional blowback.

Welcome aboard the pc train, but I’m not sure it’s any different in the long run. :lol:

I have largely adopted digital games starting with the Xbox one/ps4 generation, but I don’t like the trend of total abandonment of physical media.

I dont trust any of these corporations and they continue to find ways to tighten their grip on access to content, pricing of content, and our “rights” as consumers.

We are entering a brave new shitty world.

I just hope Gaben has a solid heir in place for steam. They are the best option for digital content but that is going to change inevitably. If he has a solid successor, the enshittification can be slowed at least.

People get so invested in defending media/entertainment companies.

At the end of the day, these are all just products. And the shitty practices really underscore that fact. Makes it hard for me to enjoy the fun aspects of the transaction when it feels so predatory.

Hard to say what the scope will be, but it does seem like some cosmetic features will be paywalled even in single player.

But that’s okay, because rockstar is the greatest company ever and we can excuse anything negative they may do because they made some good games for a while. They spent a lot of money making this and my fond memories of their prior work tell me I have to pay for it even if they are being openly hostile with their modern pricing and policies.

It’s a new product! Consume!

Rockstar has become really scummy since they developed their shark card money printer.

The rockstar of the ‘00’s would openly mock/parody the rockstar of today.

Chungus Lucia playthrough, here I come.