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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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[–] 24 points 2 months ago (5 children)

If we're going to transition to digital only, a couple things need to happen.

When we purchase a game, we own it. This is not a long term rental.

If we want to sell it or trade it, we can.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Lol, never going to happen.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    You could have legislation, just make it so that they have to keep a download button for people that already have something purchased. The real issue is that like if Sony doesn't have the rights to something anymore then the rights holder can go after Sony. You just need a rule that they can keep something and can't be suedby others for providing downloads to customers even if Sony lost the rights, so that only applies to new sales.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Both Microsoft and Sony had this exact infrastructure built ready to go for Xbox One and PS4 prior to launch.

    We were going to get full digital collections with a marketplace that would allow entitlement sales AND the ability to loan entitlements to friends for set periods of time.

    When Microsoft announced the plans at E3 2013, a whiny minority of "core gamers" kicked up such a fuss that Microsofts stock tanked and they backpedalled... Sony hadn't made any announcements yet and presented the EXACT opposite of Microsoft's plan literally 8 hours later despite the fact that their existing hardware DevKits and system software functioned exactly as Microsoft had described. Sony got to look like the "hero" while both of them then scrambled to completely reengineer their hardware and system software prior to launch...

    We lost a bright future that day.

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