Gamers will never get the ownership rights they deserve because they keep making silly mistakes like confusing out dated media and ownership. Discs deserve to die. You should own your digital media. Both statements can be true at once.

Instead we get minor protests over discs being eliminated with click bait gaming journalists only too happy to cover the story because they tied their livelihood to ad income.

The protests did nothing. Sony already has the spreadsheets showing physical media is meaningless. I myself am a very happy Sony customer and will be buying whatever their next console is. Will I lament we haven’t all fought for digital ownership rights? Of course. But until everyone is on the same page about what we actually want nothing will change.

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bluefirebrand 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

The page I'm on is "I am not supporting these companies anymore until they change their business practices"

But enough people are like you, happy to continue to support their practices with your wallets, that nothing will ever change

> But until everyone is on the same page about what we actually want nothing will change.

From my perspective you're the one on the wrong page. You claim to lament not fighting, but also admit you're not going to fight because you're a happy customer

It's ok to admit that you actually just don't actually care much.

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ectospheno 2 days ago | parent [-]

How many discs have you purchased on Steam?

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bluefirebrand 2 days ago | parent [-]

I absolutely would buy hard copies of all of my games if that were still an option, even if it did cost a little more

	▲	ectospheno 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Steam killed physical media. Consoles are just catching up. The rage at Sony while Gabe on his yacht is universally loved is hysterical.

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account42 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Discs are the only way to come even close to owing your games today. If companies want to replace old technology they have to first make the new technology not be a downgrade and its not up to users to accept the new technology before that happens.

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optionalsquid 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I would argue that DRM free downloads are much closer to truly owning your games, since your "ownership" isn't tied to a media that will wear out or decay, and which likely cannot be backed up

	▲	account42 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		In theory perhaps. In practice you can get physical media on second hand markets long after it is out of print but for digital media the publisher effectively controls availability (which also means they can keep the price high). There is effectively no right of first sale in practice for digital media which IMO makes it clearly not ownership. In practice physical media also has a longer lifespan than the average persons handling of digital media. And wheter you are allowed to make backups of your physical media very much depends on your country.

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ectospheno 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You buy a lot of discs on Steam?

	▲	account42 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		No, I don't buy anything on Steam.