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Gamers push back: 71% say they’re not ready to let physical games die as PlayStation and Xbox move toward a digital-only future” (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

PC gaming all digital is ok because it's not a closed ecosystem. I can install whatever platform I want, and buy games. And there are huge sales.

Also there are drm free shops like gog, a huge community with emulators, mods, and in the need pirated copies of the games I bought.

Trust is one thing, but monopolized market is another.

edit: today I found the List of DRM-free games that has many games that DRM free from many PC platforms (1867 games in Steam and 604 in Epic). Meaning that you can launch an installed game directly from the .exe and even make a zip the installed game as backup.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    PC gaming all digital is ok because it’s not a closed ecosystem

    This is the crux of the issue. I have a few games in my library that have been de-listed from the store but my access to those games is unaffected and I can still install and play them, and it's a problem that Sony's approach isn't analogous to this.

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