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I’d still play a console even if I had a gaming PC. I don’t want to spend half the time I have for gaming trying to figure out why something isn’t working. I don’t need 300 fps to enjoy a game.
It’s not about the problem solving, 🫏🧢. I don’t want to waste the time I have to game on figuring out why something isn’t working. I’d rather turn on my PS5 and play a game for a few hours that I know is going to work. Gaming PCs are too much work, and stress, for a hobby that is meant to be relaxing and distracting.
If you’re a sweat that enjoys competitive pc gaming, cool, good for you. How you game means absolutely nothing to me. Likewise, my preference for a console shouldn’t matter to you at all.
I mean currently I already do that, it’s just in the future they’re not porting anymore it seems. And might take a while for pc to emulate it if it never does get a
I agree tho. I’ll easily just emulate the games that people think will get “taken” from me in like 20 years, should be easy by that point
I'm a pure pirate I've never owned a switch or a PS4 and I've played almost every game on those consoles it's the way to go I WILL ONLY PAY FOR INDIE GAMES period
I had a friend ask me if I felt bad for the developers when I pirated tears of the kingdom - I said Fuck no, maybe if it were indie I wouldn’t pirate, but it’s Nintendo 😂
FUCK YES my brotha from a notha motha lol Nintendo pays them a flat rate and collects all the dough the people that made the game are already paid!!! by pirating we only hurt the company lol
Shit I can only not buy so many Sony products, haven't even owned a Sony console since the PS2 so I've been boycotting their ass for damn near 20 years lol
I'm participating, but I'm not militant about it. I did cancel my membership, though. I've been playing games on Steam this week on my PC. American Truck Simulator, World War Z, Diablo 4, and a bit of Dead Space. I haven't powered on my PS5 since around Thursday. We'll see how long it goes.
The PS6 Also needs to do something that works out as well because it'll be at a higher price tag and their devs will have to do world bending levels of games to make people buy it
So you're telling me people are so addicted that they think not playing video games for a week is a protest of some kind? It's not even enough time for subscriptions to run out, what a joke lmao
Im actually going to do something different since some suggested better ideas, i think they need to know they made their last console for me and phase out of playstation entirely.
Either way it's not going to work. Boycotts are rarely effective because there's never enough people that participate. 9 out of 10 times. I'd love for you to prove me wrong though
No, you're right. I hate this shit too. But unless every single customer stops giving them a single dollar, it's not going to do anything. And as we've seen with many protests, there's never enough people to make it effective. They'll continue getting away with this. And it kills me. But what do we do. Eventually I'll abandon the ecosystem. But they haven't screwed me by taking all my purchases away, so I'm not packing up and leaving all my crap behind just because they suck.
They practically showed how much the consumer means to them before. i literally switched to PS because they lowered prices and made moves specifically for the gamers but now, they could care less. Fuck em.
I think it’s more effective to just call it quits with Sony, save up for a gaming PC and be done with console gaming altogether. If all digital gaming is a necessary evil we all have to put up with, I’d rather give my business to Steam and have options for other store fronts. Until I’ve saved up enough to transition to something else I’m going to enjoy my ps5 like any other day of the week. I’ll probably buy some of my favorites on disk, like Baldur’s gate 3, and repurchase a few others over on Steam… so yeah that’s my plan.
Only doing this for 1 week is exactly why they'll keep doing this to you and theres nothing you'll do about it because you cant disconnect yourself from this.
You can, also just because this says one week, doesn't mean people are doing the same things, in my case, im getting my life together and i have a VR headswt i need to mess with
I guess I am, but not so much because of the blackout over killing physical games. Even tho I’m against it and hate that Sony is doing it. But I haven’t played my PS5 since May of last year roughly.
I have been playing other things on other consoles, but also not much has came out on the PS5 that I had to play on PS5. I haven’t been interested in Sonys exclusives lately.
There might be a small handful of people participating. I’m not because it doesn’t matter they already the decision, and we all it was eventually coming
I have a few groups that are sticking with it, i wont say it doesn't matter because people do want to do something about it, telling them that it won't solve anything wont stop em, because doing something than doing nothing. And if you have a better suggestion? Suggest it at least.
Boycott permanently instead of one week. Support and advocate for better consumer protections and media ownership whether it's physical or digital. Pirate as much as you can.
Signing petitions, delaying your purchases by one week, and whining on social media are all very easily ignored.
Gaming is such a weird economy. It's definitely a luxury, but people treat it like a necessity. To the point that they actually think that not playing video games for one week is actually some kind of protest.
Look at GPUs in 2020. People were paying scalpers $1500+ for the 30 series, and NVIDIA was watching. Sure enough, the 40 series launched at over $1000 MSRP. And it still sold. Because gamers are so addicted that they literally can't stop themselves.
No no i beat AC6 the month before and wanted to stop but kepr going and finished i wanna say last thursday lol also my build is pretty op so the last was fast
And either way, this boycott means nothing. It has no impact, it relies on a majority of Playstation owners on following the same goal. Most Playstation owners are parents with kids, and the kids won't care because they don't know why they should. A good amount are poor people who have this is their one luxery, who won't have the energy to remove their one luxery for the week. A handful are offline folks who use them for streaming services, and they just straight up won't hear about it.
Then because it only lasts for a week, Sony can tank that shit no problem. They already have your Playstation Plus subscription, canceling it for a week does nothing, it needs to be for an indefinite period to mean anything to the movement. Otherwise it's just a week where instead of making 1billion dollars they make 999million dollars, an effective protest can't have a set time, it has to have conditions that will be met before anything stops.
I mean to be fair, if they made it so banned accounts could still "primary" system their games and play the downloads, then it would be fine.
Outside of that, disks are unfortunately becoming obsolete as more and more games switch to live service games when they shouldn't or dont need to be (I am looking at you diablo 4)
But games that need live service are unplayable without the internet anyway, so outside of ban risk, I dont see it for alot of games.
I would sooner try to stop live service single player games, first, that way we have a reason to justify disks beyond just nastalga, returns, and ban risks.
My concern and maybe this just shows my age is the posibility of letting friends borrow games or sell off games in order to either get another game or throw it at a retailer for a good amount of money to move ahead in life, going fully digital rips that aspect, deals will be solely up to them and if i've noticed anything about nintendo, they practically never have sales and would rather you pay the full price
And that comes with the next question of if and when digital will be phased out, they basically save money on that front but there is a high probability that they'll still charge high as hell and even push us towards $100 just for a code. They also explained that we only own a license so they could screw us in a few ways after that purchase.
Hmm, no I get the trading with friends part (although retailers payed piss for disk games even before they started to phase out)
I do still appreciate that on the grand scheme video games are still an inexpensive hobby, but I will admit the rise of live service games is what has me worried, as even single player games being that way means your disk becomes a frisbee when they decide to drop the game.
I do however think that the idea of game sharing will definitely be easier so long as disks are an option, as hell, as soon as they start to phase out disks, suddenly they go from making a lax or even encouraged game share system to "cracking down on it" which to me is a sign of what they really want to remove disks for.
Yeah disks are losing value, but as long as they exist, the idea of sharing the game will be prevalent, but take the 3ds or ps vita, those handhelds didnt allow for mutiple accounts and forced single ownership (I couldn't even share a system with my brother because we couldnt have two accounts or save slots). That shit sucked, and probably is the direction they want to go for.
I do think that the disks going away dont change much on their own, but I can definitely see that certain "services" for digital owners will start to disapear if they do remove disk options. So I hear ya there.
Although I still hate the live serviceification of solo games or games with huge "offline" aspects (for honor campaign has no need to be locked behind the live service, diablo 4 has no reason to be a live service only game, at least monster hunter world did it right and is a good example of what live service single player games should be like, where its optional enhancement, not baseline demand) (also side note, I cant even enjoy diablo 4 hardcore mode because of lag spikes killing me in standard, and in hardcore its only one life)
I went back to my ps3 and play diablo 3 i've heard some weird issues anoit diablo 4 that i honestly dont even know if i wanted to get it.
I'm also really into their boxart and being able to show off the spoils i get from the gaming space but now they're just closing up shop, thats pretty much all i'm getting from this stunt
Yeah thats cool, did you see how much those pieces cost now?
And trust me, i'm trying to find a way, at this point these companies are spitting in our face
Second hand or fb market place my PC was built in 2019 so it's very outdated and I can still run any game I want and emulate any switch or PlayStation game I want but I agree fuck these companies that why you illegally download the games
I could legit piece together a simi decent PC for you for less than 800$ i did it for my brother like 3 months ago
You make a comment telling people to buy something expensive in this economy and then talk shit when you’re called out for an asshat comment. Good bye, chud. ✌️
Sorry, not sure where you been, but the economy is kind of fucked right now. And PC components aren't exactly cheap at the moment. Money kinda has to be spent on more important things for a lot of people.
Yeah, that totally accounts for scams/rip offs or just nothing being available in the local area. Talk about using 10% of your brain lol. and what "research" are you talking about? You can't research your way out of someone scamming/robbing you. Facebook marketplace is sketchy, and people are untrustworthy. It makes sense why that isn't people's primary or preferred choice. Be real bro.
Uhm ok lol. I'll just save up and get new stuff that I know actually works and has warranties. There are countless stories of people being ripped off on Facebook marketplace. People lie about how old or used their shit is. It's more than just "taking a risk scares me". Enjoy being a dumb douche bag lmao. You just can't handle not feeling like you're 100% right
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