| ▲ | altmanaltman an hour ago | |
With the planned death of physical media for games, it will soon become impossible to do so. Like, Sony literally plans to stop making discs starting in 2028, and all games you buy will have to be digital only. GTA 6 is just giving a code in a box. It's really the end of times for physical media in a few years, maybe something can change if consumers push back but they likely will not if we are being realistic. https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-produc... | ||
| ▲ | lesostep 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
Not the OP, but when the physical media for games dies, I will still be playing games I already own. That's what collection is for. | ||
| ▲ | jerf 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
I don't think you're quite getting it. I'm saying, don't get in the box. "But the bait looks so nice!" Yes. Yes it does. Yes, you may have to sacrifice and not get some things you want in the moment. Our capitalistic overlords have demonstrated that they will absolutely abuse you to the maximum extent you permit. If you are willing to give everything to play GTA 6, then they will take it. The compensation is that there is already more than you could possibly do available in spaces where they are not locking you in a box, or you can break out of the box with minimal moral quandaries and technical difficulties. This isn't really news. Control your desires or they will control you is not new wisdom. Though the modern ability to exploit other's inability to control their desires certainly does have some new twists on it. "Each man's master is the person who has the authority over what the man wishes or does not wish, so as to secure it, or take it away. Whoever, therefore, wants to be free, let him neither wish for anything, nor avoid anything, that is under the control of others; or else he is necessarily a slave." - The Encheridion Of Epictetus, second century AD https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3ADiscourses_of_Epictetu... | ||
| ▲ | nkrisc 24 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Then just stop playing games if that happens. They’re not necessary, it’s not worth getting fucked over by the corpos. Or make your own games or play ones made by indies that you can actually own. | ||