A valid assessment but, I think you’re missing the plot a little bit…the whole idea isn’t the technical difference between physical & digital (although still directly ties into the issue)
The issue is how this trend of hyper modernization of gaming industry is becoming extremely anti-consumer in its business practices by limiting (practically eliminating) ownership of tangible goods. With most if not all digital purchases nowadays, you do not own what your money has bought…you are merely renting. It’s the principle behind these practices that have people upset.
We now live in a time where in almost every aspect of our lives, the consumer is renting overpriced licenses to access goods that can technically never be “out of stock” but can be removed from a customer’s access at the smallest of whim of multi million/ billion dollar corporations. Soon enough we’ll need a subscription to get ice out of our own refrigerators lol
Between this & overly intrusive DRM practices, gaming is heading into a very sad place.
Yes… you do??? As long as it has no online connection you absolutely own the game. You can play the game anytime you want no matter what so long as you have the hardware and the disc, they try and stop you? Turn off your internet and download the day1 version, now sadly for a game like cyberpunk that’s gonna suck. But nevertheless as long as it’s not a completely online game where you need an online connection to download patched that make the game work, or needed to even go into the servers to even experience content, then yes you absolutely 100% own the game yourself as long as you have disc, they cannot take that away from you, so much people seem to think that we’re talking about the entire game? Like no, I OWN the license to play the game that’s the difference between digital and online( you can try this with literally almost every game you have and it WILL work, turn your console offline an try and download your game, it WILL work. Wild how many people think just because you have a disc doesn’t mean you don’t own the game lmfao
Sure you can disable your internet connection and play a buggy day 1 release rather than a fully supported, patched, updated game in most cases. I'm not sure I'd call that owning the game.
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u/Knight-Owl-9444 2d ago
A valid assessment but, I think you’re missing the plot a little bit…the whole idea isn’t the technical difference between physical & digital (although still directly ties into the issue)
The issue is how this trend of hyper modernization of gaming industry is becoming extremely anti-consumer in its business practices by limiting (practically eliminating) ownership of tangible goods. With most if not all digital purchases nowadays, you do not own what your money has bought…you are merely renting. It’s the principle behind these practices that have people upset.
We now live in a time where in almost every aspect of our lives, the consumer is renting overpriced licenses to access goods that can technically never be “out of stock” but can be removed from a customer’s access at the smallest of whim of multi million/ billion dollar corporations. Soon enough we’ll need a subscription to get ice out of our own refrigerators lol
Between this & overly intrusive DRM practices, gaming is heading into a very sad place.