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[–] 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (15 children)

Can we stop spreading the propaganda for them? Sony lied about digital sales by including digital-only games in their figures.

Every game with a physical release, according to their developers, makes most of their sales on disc. It’s literally always a 70/30 split every single time (give or take 10%). I cannot find any evidence of a game that sold more in its digital form than physical

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Where can I learn more about this. Frankly, I will not just take your word for it on such a bold claim.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    That’s fair, but it’s ubiquitous. Search Twitter and Bluesky for official game studio and personal developer accounts. They almost always post about their sales soon after a launch. I don’t have any on hand, sorry. I do remember suckerpunch and insomniac doing so all the time.

    Edit: https://en.gamegpu.com/news/igry/utechka-insomniac-raskryla-realnoe-sootnoshenie-fizicheskikh-i-tsifrovykh-prodazh-playstation

    My claim would be very easily disproven if it wasn’t true

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    The guy who’s saying this is a controversian, he’s trying to get clicks to his TikTok. He was also opposing stop killing games. He’s not even working in valve more than a decade. So he’s irrelevant but he does make sure to say ex-valve before his title.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I do not even have a tiktok. Who are you talking about?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    I’m talking about the guy who’s saying those stuff, chet Faliszek. not you lol.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    Ok, I didn’t think you were. I was saying you don’t need to be influenced by some guy to come to the conclusion that if all publishers, studios, their devs, (and their leakers, apparently), all agree on something, it’s most likely true

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    I believe you, and im sure it's because I've lost passion for just about everything at this point, but if the disk doesnt hold the game what really is the point anymore. If we bought the entire game on hard drive and the console had a hot swappable port so we used them like cartridges that would be great. I shouldn't need internet access to play a game by myself. But with the current fuckery, the disc just holds part of the game right, and you have to download the rest of the game when you put it in the console.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    You can also use that license thatvomes on that disc and transfer it and sell it or trade it to someone else if you choose.

    That choice is being taken away.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    Ah that makes sense. I wonder if there are people who create accounts for each game they digitally purchase. Then sell the sign in creds when they are done playing. Talk about a giant pain in the ass that would be

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    Sony and Microsoft's Xbox will ban you immediately for this but because Steam is a lot more consumer friendly people do sell whole accounts with a game or two tied to them. There's a site (that's kind of shady ish so look out for that) that I have used called G2A that you can buy whole steam accounts with games on.

    I think that some of those codes are stolen though or something of that nature but steam doesn't do anything about it but that is 100% speculation on my part. I thought I heard a dev of a game say something like that one time though that they'd rather you pirate it than buy it off G2A.

    Edit: thinking about it more I don't think its stolen its just the simple fact that you can "trade" or "sell" the entire game that way by selling the whole account tied to it and the game developers don't like that.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Reasons game developers don't like steam keys from sites like G2A are:

    • Exploiting regional price differences.
    • Splitting keys out of bundles.
    • Scamming game developers for free keys (claiming they want to promote the game with a giveaway).
    • Keys bought with stolen cards (that get chargebacked causing direct loss).

    The last reason could apply to reselling steam accounts as well.

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