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PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For (kotaku.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I guess it's the Always-On DRM that's the issue. Best get rid of that entirely, or force developers to disclose IN LARGE PRINT if a game has it, like they did with parental warning stickers in the late 1980's. And I mean FORCE, as in "you can't be on Steam/whatever because you have unnecessary DRM"

I can still play World Of Goo any time I damn well choose because I paid for it and I own it and the developers were probably not inherently evil humans.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can still play World Of Goo [...] and the developers were probably not inherently evil humans.

Well, both creators of WoG are former EA employees, so...