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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago

Also they want you to buy physical games then to activate them for your account, making them useless for resale (like with steam games, whether bought digital of physical). Sony and Nintendo are eyeballing it for a while now, it's just something causing insane resistance from their player base when hinting the idea. Same with single-player games requiring your device being online.

All they want is taking away your rights. Like digital games, making them the same price as physical but you're not actually buying the game, just the right to play their game for as long as they want to support it.

Back in the days you missed nice features when pirating software or movies (like the DVD extras) but these days the pirated version is better and with less restrictions than the purchased licence.

For example, I am leeching YouTube premium from a friend. But using the grayjay app gives me more rights and features than the premium version of YouTube, with sponsor block implemented, offline downloads don't require a connection to watch and you're not constantly fed with shorts slop. And you can categorize channel subscriptions and video recommendations are better.

Same with games. Want to play hitman? Sure, 60 bucks for a few missions, plus 140 for all DLC content so you actually have some decent amount of content and playtime. Or pirate it with all DLC content included. I'm fine with paying full price for a proper game, but if most content is locked behind a paywall, I'll just pirate it instead. Fuck them.