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My last PlayStation. (thelemmy.club)
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PS2: My first dvd player. PS3: my first blue-ray player. PS5: My last playstation.
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[–] -2 points 6 days ago (17 children)

You don't own your games on Steam either.

Realistically we need laws changing to catch up. Nobody, not even good old uncle Gabe, are going to give us the same rights we had with physical games.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    Most games on steam arent DRM, so nothing stops you from backing up all your games.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago* (2 children)

    Not having tens of thousands to spend on storage is a bit of a blocker in my case.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 days ago (7 children)

    I own my GOG games though. Factorio, which I got straight from WUBE, I also own.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    You own them the same way you own Steam Games without DRM. If you keep a backup of them you'll always have them but if the store goes away or terminates the files you won't be able to re-download it from them.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    So the same as physical games then, if you lose your copy its gone. But its much easier to backup and have multiple.

    You really aren’t selling physical media with DRM to me, and they always seem to have DRM. I could make 20 copies on bluray if I wanted to with my games, much harder with your physical ones.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    I understand there are different levels to the word "own".

    Own them as in "I can play them even if that store is unavailable in the future" is one level.

    Own them as in "I can trade/give them to others when I don't want them any more" is another.

    One is not better than the other, and they're not mutually exclusive. But physical gives you both of them. Digital doesn't. Or not yet at least.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (1 child)

    You don't own games on gog, you just have a offline DRM free installer

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago*

    If you want to go down the technicality of owning that much the same applies to physical media for games.

    I could copy my installer to a DVD and at that point it doesn't really make a difference, oh look its physical now.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Steam is still driving a lot of support for Proton and other open-source development for gaming on Linux, which is why they're still worth supporting. And if (maybe when) they enshittify, then it is far easier to sail the high seas on any Linux gaming rig than it is on any console.

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