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[–] [email protected] 112 points 5 months ago (4 children)

the whole point is to stop you from owning physical media so they can arbitrarily raise prices by creating artificial cause and demand through artificial scarcity.

[–] A_Random_Idiot 44 points 5 months ago (2 children)

anyone remember when the argument for digital goods was " We wont have to waste money on boxes, printing, media, storage, or shipping! So your goods will be cheaper than ever, and everyone will still get a more profitable cut!"

Pepperidge farm Remembers, because Pepperidge farm called bullshit on the argument back at the very start, and said they would get rid of physical media, not lower prices, and that we would lose ownership of our purchases... and the internet poopoo'd me to hell in back calling me paranoid and stupid for it.

and look where we are.

and its so goddamn fucked up I don't even get a single molecule of serotonin from being right about it.

[–] FreakinSteve 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The internet is chock full of idiots who piss all over Cassandra

[–] A_Random_Idiot 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] FreakinSteve 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] A_Random_Idiot 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would not in a thousand years have guessed greek mythology reference, lol

[–] FreakinSteve 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Now you know: you (and I) have the Curse of Cassandra

[–] A_Random_Idiot 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It fits.

Considering thats how its been my whole life.

Someone in my family once got severe burns on their hands cause i told them a pot was hot (It had been sitting on a grill, not like..a turned off stove where it had time to cool), to not touch it, and they rolled their eyes at me and said "what do you know" and picked it up.. And yet it was my fault their hands were in bandages afterwards.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I dunno. Steam did it well enough. I was buying cheap games for years. I could get a kick ass GOTY game for like $5 while GameStop was still selling it used on consoles for $20.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You do realize you don't "own" anything on Steam right? Every dollar you give them is towards a "subscription" to play the game.

[–] nek0d3r 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

While companies like Nintendo continually kill off game accessibility, Steam doesn't really take away games from anyone. Digital distribution may not be ownership, but Steam in particular hasn't given reason to worry.

[–] Fredselfish 5 points 5 months ago

For now but one day some corporation will buy Steam and turn into the endshitcation like all the rest.

Until that time will try to enjoy it while we can.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

This is why I buy from GOG

[–] Prok 2 points 5 months ago

While true for some games that require their online services. There's nothing keeping you from downloading a game and backing up the install files on your own media to play later... A lot of games will run without steam open if you just run the executable...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

That makes this even more depressing. Sailing the high seas is the life for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But where to store it all now?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

More hard drives. RAID, rotate them out when they fail, more backups too. lol

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sounds pricey. Discs are cheap.

[–] A_Random_Idiot 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I've never had a CD/DVD R last more than a year anyway, even when using expensive media and slow burn speeds. So its not exactly archival.

[–] ZiemekZ 2 points 5 months ago

Which brand do you use? Not a single Verbatim has ever failed me, neither DVD nor Blu-ray. I also use a full-size burner with 12V SATA-USB adapter, not those stupid "slim" ones.

[–] TGTX 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Thank your deity that M-Disc exists.

[–] ZiemekZ 1 points 5 months ago

Doesn't matter that much for Blu-rays since they're non-organic anyway. It mattered more for DVDs since they use organic dyes, but I couldn't find any M-Disc DVDs in Poland.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Jokes on Sony, they stopped getting my money years ago.