if only one person can buy GTA 6, how can more than one person rent GTA 6?

Oh really? Then it's not a store, and it's not a sale. It's a leasing office and a lease.

They dont need to keep trying to convice me to never buy another Sony/ Rockstar product. They keep giving more reasons though.

... wait. That's not obvious. If it was obvious, it wouldn't be a "Buy now" it would be like a "Purchase License."

Because thats literally how the rest of the software industry works.

Following that logic, pirating software is quite all right, no one is stupid enough to believe someone loses if they make a copy.

The solution seems easy enough, don't buy or rent anything from Sony until the issue is resolved.

This is fixable if consumers band together. Nobody needs to game on a PlayStation (or play GTA on PC/PlayStation), we need water, food, shelter not GTA6

If that's so obvious, then why not state it clearly on the packaging?

Ah yes, because I own my pair of jeans, or my hoodie, I'm the only person in the world with a pair of jeans and a hoodie...

So by that logic, I am the only owner of a 2016 Subaru Impreza in the entire world.

So when we bought games on disc, who was the one person who owned the game? John Sony San, who lives at the top of Sony Tower in Sony Plaza?

Lol this weasel logic they'll use to justify their petty greed is ridiculous...

I don't think anyone expects that they are buying the exclusive copyright license for reproduction. People just want to own their copies. You know like with books.

We want this for our games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

Do they want piracy? Because that's how you make it morally legitimate.

I just checked with my wife, giving her no context other than checking out, having paid for a game. She doesn't understand and said it's a bunch of bullshit. She doesn't even play games, she just gets them for someone else as a gift.

Apparently you can't gift a game because it's never yours to give.

Right, like, how "owning" a car means that you need to purchase the entire means of production required to produce said car, including all patents and trademarks.

This guy is somehow multi-rail drifting his pseudo-capitalist argument with like, a cartoon version of communism. It's like he dropped acid and decided to become Frankenstein's Economist.

I own a copy of the game.....

I was gonna buy a new PlayStation but now I'm not.

Did they teach this in business school? Repulsing customers for profit.

The problem with this argument was their short-sighted business model. They sold digital games for the same price as physical games.

If consumers are accustom to "owning" physical games, and then pay the same price for digital, of course they would assume they own those as well.

If instead you needed to buy a subscription to each game that came out, and they only charged $10/month for the latest AAA game, the "you don't own it" argument would actually be reasonable.

I find it interesting that the article uses GTA 6 as the example when Sony uses Resident Evil Requiem as the example. It’s clickbait tactics and I hate it.

That's not what ownership of digital copies means, fuckshits.

Yep so all the piracy that goes around isn't illegal either right?

Oh, right, so it's all just one copy that we're all sharing, then? Here's an idea in that case: let's cut out the middleman, and I'll share my copy of it with all of you for an agreed price.
Free is my first, best and final offer.

Sony argues that its current customer-facing disclosures ensure that “reasonable consumers would not be misled” into believing they actually own their digital games.

They can make that argument, but I think they'll have a hard time finding evidence to support it. Judges aren't stupid, but they can be corrupt, however.

Wish people could actually have the willpower to effectively boycott anything enough to later. Happens with iPhone every year, they bitch and moan about it being the hand phone, then go buy one.

Until they change every storefront to say rent instead of buy/purchase/etc I will believe it.

Sony has been going to shit at LEAST ever since their fucking 2011 hack and online shutdown. Endless stupid decisions one after another. Trash.

This makes my choice to stop at the ps3 a very good choice.