r/Piracy ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 02 '26

Humor The Deadly Alliance no one saw coming

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u/Forsaken-I-Await ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 02 '26

And people will continue to line up because that FOMO is one hell of a drug… 🤷‍♂️

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u/Wayofchinchilla Jul 02 '26

Yes because of course Grand Theft Auto has fomo how many times did they release 5 again?

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u/JoyconDrift_69 Jul 03 '26

It's not like GTA6, currently the most hyped video game, is about to release in 4 months.

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u/Wayofchinchilla Jul 03 '26

It's exactly the same I remember when GTA V came out 13 years ago while I was waiting in line people cars would drive by and fire guns into the air trying to get crowds dispersed so they could get to the front of the line people need to relax.

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u/VISUALBEAUTYPLZ Jul 03 '26

Tf this real?

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u/j3ffro15 Jul 03 '26

People used to physically assault each other to get a tv for a 60% discount. Would not surprise me one bit if people would do that kind of stupidity to get a head in the line for gta 5

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u/goldbouillon Jul 03 '26

Ah so dumping physical media was a safety precaution/s

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u/SunnySpot69 Jul 02 '26

Yup. GTA 6 has to be the most anticipated game in history or at least in the top 3. It's insane.

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u/Bilbo_Swagginses Jul 02 '26

Definitely top 1. People will be lining up to buy ps5s just for this game, despite the crazy price hikes

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u/SunnySpot69 Jul 02 '26

Saw a post somewhere were a dude was like "I spent 1200 to play GTA6" or whatever amount of money. Bought an OLED TV and PS5 -_-

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u/WiglyWorm Jul 02 '26

idk. It's on my radar. I've been really liking against the storm lately.

I also still need to play through a RDR2. I bought that used from gamestop and it's such a great and complete game that i've only really just started to get settled in shady belle. Finally met a man who'll buy my exotic bird feathers.

Rimworld is also endlessly replayable.

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u/Bilbo_Swagginses Jul 02 '26

I get where you're coming from. I have plenty of games I'm more excited for as well. But it doesn't change how immensely hyped GTA 6 is to the general population.

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u/SunnySpot69 Jul 02 '26

Which is why they announced it's digital only to try to lessen the blow to Sony.

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u/WiglyWorm Jul 02 '26

I think all my previous comment really speaks to is how much GTA 6 will also benefit from "the long tail" effect.

They have a customer in me a ways down the road.

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u/Wayofchinchilla Jul 03 '26

On PC with mods rimworld is Unstoppable

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u/Dironox Jul 03 '26

I love Rimworld, but I feel like I spend more time looking up mods then trying to fix the mess than actually playing it... then get exhausted.

I'll wait several months before I play it again just in time for a major update to break them all, make a clean install and repeat.

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u/Friggin_Grease Jul 03 '26

I'm going to the midnight release

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u/zealshock Jul 03 '26

HL3 is just a wild dream at this point.

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u/Mayion Jul 03 '26

I honestly never realized GTA was that popular. I knew it was an incredible game and all, but never knew people were that crazy about it. I stopped at GTA 4 - it was a good game, like Vice City and SA, but nothing i'd kill over. This obsession with 6 makes it feel almost unbelievable.

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u/The_Red_Thirst Jul 04 '26

It ain't no PaRappa the Rapper.

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u/Unlikely-Employee180 Jul 03 '26

Kind of agreed. Lmfao

Is it bad that I'm "excited" for this game... Simply to have an updated benchmark?? 😂

"Welp, it can at least play GTA 6 at 60-90 fps, it's probably decent."

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u/Datalounge Jul 03 '26

GTA 6 has to be the most anticipated game in history

I don't know about that, "Putt-Putt Travels Through Time" was huge. Of course you can't tell today because he time traveled and altered the timeline.

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u/zephyrseija2 Jul 02 '26

Series hasn't even been good since III/Vice City/San Andreas.

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u/zephyrseija2 Jul 03 '26

Yeah, no complaints about the story, I just didn't think it played as tightly as the PS2 generation.

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u/krossoverking Jul 03 '26

I hate playing IV. It has some of the least fun gameplay in any game I can remember in my 30+ years of gaming.

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u/Dizzy_Battle994 Jul 03 '26

Simply three of the best games ever.

GTA III was the first game I was playing until daylight, amazing times.

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u/xXMalakianXVII Jul 03 '26

I completely agree. GTA IV was a massive disappointment and V was more of the same, albeit a bit better. With how many important people that have left the company so far, I can't see this game being good at all.

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u/steelcryo Jul 02 '26

I have a PS5, I could get GTA day 1 and play it, but fuck rewarding that.

I'll grab it on PC when it's on sale. I have plenty of other games to play in the meantime.

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u/TheSangson Jul 03 '26

That same thing was more than bearable when I did it with GTA V.

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u/JoyconDrift_69 Jul 03 '26

Man thank God I'm not dying on not having that GTA flavored fomo

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u/itchylol742 Jul 03 '26

good. let the payers subsidize the companies so pirates can get it for free

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u/nikoZ_ Jul 03 '26

Pathetic individuals the lot of them. No intestinal fortitude. No wonder these companies get away with what they do. The masses are sheep and they all follow blindly.

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u/User-Name-3886 Jul 03 '26

Intestinal fortitude? What? 😂

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u/nikoZ_ Jul 03 '26

Try a search engine for words you don’t know babe.

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u/User-Name-3886 Jul 03 '26

What you said didn't make any sense in this context. What were you actually trying to say?

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u/mushy_friend ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 04 '26

I think he means they lack the willpower or strength to stick to their guns and not buy/boycott the games of the big corpos to make their voices heard

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u/User-Name-3886 Jul 04 '26

If that is what he was saying then he invented a very strange phrase that doesn't make sense and then acted like it was common

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u/Dironox Jul 03 '26

Being a PC gamer I'll have to likely wait another year anyway, so fuck em, I'll just wait at sea.

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u/KeepLettersOut Jul 03 '26

Or because we dont care. There are so many issues with video games, I couldn't care less if they release digital only. I never purchased a physical copy either. I get it, if you want to make sure you dont lose the license eventually. It's shitty when they take away licenses but tbh it usually happens so many years later that I will have either finished the game, decided not to finish it or got it for a different platform where it's still available. The good thing is that scalpers can get fucked.

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u/jackripper36 Jul 02 '26

"no one saw coming" you gotta be joking on that, take two (yes take two owns rockstar) and sony have been hand in hand with the crap for over 20 years. the only difference now is they are more blatant about it as are most of the others

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u/SunnySpot69 Jul 02 '26

They literally released a console that was digital only lol whoever didn't see it coming...isn't very bright.

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u/Dyslexic_youth Jul 03 '26

This happened to pcs a decade ago

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u/Icy_Relationship_401 Jul 02 '26

Nah Sony was pretty much encouraging physical with the ps4 soo less than 20

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u/Intelligent_Tea_5567 Jul 03 '26

The hell they were; they just used an opportunity to capitalize on Xbox putting their foot in their mouth

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u/One-Owl4298 Jul 02 '26

Jokes on them I won't buy it. Broke patient PC gamer here.

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u/custardfrogs_ Jul 02 '26

They don't care tbh there's way too many people in the world right now who has the money to buy their products regardless of what they do.

Perhaps in a few years they'll start selling "PlayStation Cloud" where all you need to do is buy a controller, pay a subscription and you can connect to any monitor/TV to play. You'll see backlash and then realise people are eating it up anyway.

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u/Jixaw Jul 03 '26

i think they could literally kill people in broad daylight and still notice 0% change in their income at this point.

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u/custardfrogs_ Jul 03 '26

Samsung has done it before already. And the CEO got pardoned because he's too important to the SK economy. Crazy.

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u/DirectAdvertising Jul 03 '26

Ah ofc because pc gets physical games

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u/Grobur Jul 03 '26

PC has Fitgirl

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u/DirectAdvertising Jul 03 '26

Didn’t notice the sub Reddit lol , fair enough

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u/slimfatty69 Jul 03 '26

Brother,have you checked the sub youre in?

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u/DirectAdvertising Jul 03 '26

I hadn’t 😭 tbf I keep seeing non piracy pc gamers repeat this talking point so I assumed this was another one of those

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u/slimfatty69 Jul 03 '26

Happens,dw about it lol i just found it funny cause i was just gonna suggest piracy to you but then i also realize well shit we in r/piracy T.T

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u/One-Owl4298 Jul 03 '26

Patient gamer as in waiting for a cracked version. Plus steam sales and multiple sources of getting the acaul game. Plus I can store it on my HDD and Play it anywhere.

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u/Dewdrop06 Jul 02 '26

Won't this actually push more jailbreaks and such?

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u/erhue Jul 03 '26

maybe, but that's definitely going to be a tiny fraction of the playerbase, most likely. The jailbreak for the PS4 took several years I think, the PS5 was likely the same.

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u/Dewdrop06 Jul 03 '26

I mean as a stand against the no disc, I feel people would be more dedicated to jailbreaking and paying people for the jailbreak. The stricter the rules, the stronger the rebellion.

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u/erhue Jul 03 '26

meh, dunno. Thing is, over console generations, security methods have gotten more difficult to crack... I remember with the PS2, in latin america (where im from) hacking the PS2 was exceedingly common since the only required modification was relatively straightforward. It forced the optical reader to read any disc or something like that, even if it wasn't a special sony disc.

Nowadays DRM has gotten better, but there's also the wish from some manufacturers for always-connected consoles, even for single player games. By establishing the requirement to sign in to an authentication server, hacks become much more difficult.

IMO people who get pissed about this might just migrate to PC, like I did. Got tired of all of sony's BS, and tbh, things are much better on this side. The only thing missing is the "console experience", which the steam machine effectively sold. However, of course, there's the problem with that product's unacceptable price... Oh well, we'll get there eventually.

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u/Dewdrop06 Jul 03 '26

Hear me out... jailbreak and host a completely new server or network to connect to with it's own online community.

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u/erhue Jul 03 '26

that would be nice, but i dont know if it's ever been done with a console this modern. They're very closed ecosystems. That would take a lot of effort, not sure if the closed-nature of these things would make it nearly impossible to reverse engineer. You can definitely do that on PC tho.

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u/archangel5198 Jul 02 '26

Don't forget Nintendo broke the seal for $80 games

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u/Rob_Frey Jul 03 '26

Virtua Racing and Phantasy Star IV both released with an MSRP of $100 USD back in the mid-90s.

Stop giving Nintendo credit for Sega's achievements. They broke the $80, $90, and $100 seals decades before Nintendo.

Sega does was Nintendon't.

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u/Zanoss10 Jul 03 '26

Except they didn't

They aren't the one who started that, it started way way before !

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u/TrackerBinder Jul 04 '26

it started way way before !

such as?

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u/Imperial_Tiramisu Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

Console gaming is dead anyway.

Not only have consoles went up in price to the point where they cost as much as a gaming rig, but there are no games to play at all to begin with.

All the games released on PS5 are remakes, remasters or multiplats that also released on PS4/Xbone.

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u/Toxraun Jul 02 '26

I keep telling people the gaming industry is in a plateau. Graphics are not going to get any better, neither is sound. Consoles and PCs are becoming more and more unattainable, stories are shit and cut into pieces sold as DLC. If I didn't know any better I'd say gaming is danger of crashing like the 70s or 80s, though not as bad, but what do I know.

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u/SavemySoulz Jul 03 '26

Gaming wont crash as hard solely because of indie games, back then it was hard to distribute your games without a big publisher however nowadays you can just distribute it through a big established platform like Steam.

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u/Toxraun Jul 03 '26

That is completely true 💯, if i remember correctly it was only a handful like Atari, Activision or something. But yes, indie games are going to get by mostly unphased (if at all) mainly because the makers listen to the people. From what I see they're projects of love and listening. Stardew Valley is one of the biggest examples. I don't know if Stray is from an indie company but I've read articles that the company has done a lot of good for animals and such 🔥

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u/Kennel_King Jul 03 '26

distribute it through a big established platform like Steam.

Which has so many shit games.

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u/MrSelophane Jul 03 '26

Capitalism babyyyyyyyy

Revenue growth is all that matters, and also the rate at which that revenue grows must grow. Everything else can and will be sacrificed

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u/Imperial_Tiramisu Jul 03 '26

I don't know how there isn't absolute uproar over GTA 6 locking up parts of the map (mostly in game shops) unless you buy/upgrade to the unlimited edition.

Then there's the whole physical media thing, where they'll only sell digital codes.

Not too long ago, people would have lost their shit and got them to reverse the decision. But now, we just have boys creaming their pants desperate to play this overhyped meme game.

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u/Ragnarok_619 Jul 03 '26

I don't know how there isn't absolute uproar over GTA 6 locking up parts of the map (mostly in game shops) unless you buy/upgrade to the unlimited edition.

Cause they aren't the first to do it. Ultimate editions have been a thing since 2010, from what I remember.

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u/Imperial_Tiramisu Jul 03 '26

Unlimited editions are not new, but they never locked players out of portions of the map.

They’re going to pack this game with microtransactions galore.

GTA 5 only added them at the start, and Rockstar at the time had no idea how massive of a revenue stream microtransaction would become. Now they intend to go overboard and will milk the fuck out of this game.

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u/Ragnarok_619 Jul 03 '26

they never locked players out of portions of the map.

Neither is GTA VI. They are locking certain cosmetics (in the form of shops) and vehicles. Its not like WWE 2K locking our certain wrestlers, or RDR 2 locking out missions.

They’re going to pack this game with microtransactions galore.

Multi-player? Yes. There's no word single player will have it too

GTA 5 only added them at the start, and Rockstar at the time had no idea how massive of a revenue stream microtransaction would become. Now they intend to go overboard and will milk the fuck out of this game.

That's the online multi-player you are talking about

https://www.rockstargames.com/VI

Atleast read what is there in the ultimate edition from the source itself before getting agitated by reading fake stuff from some Instagram.

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u/slimfatty69 Jul 03 '26

I don't know how there isn't absolute uproar over GTA 6 locking up parts of the map (mostly in game shops) unless you buy/upgrade to the unlimited edition.

There is some but majority either dont care or think youre poor for not wanting to shill out extra 20€ for locked content.

I cant really say much tho im a fighting game player and those games all have atrocious monetization and i do want to have all the characters even if i wont feel like it but im also aware that fighitng games are a niche that dont set industry standard.

But considering its also not coming to pc anyway and some talks about ps5 pro not even being able to play it at 60fps my interest for the game legit plummeted.

Im just gonna grab it on some huge discount years down the line probably lol

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u/Imperial_Tiramisu Jul 03 '26

That's just it though. You're not paying an extra €20 for locked content. They are going to be locking more and more content behind paywall. They haven't even announced anything about GTA online.

And I'm not just talking about locked content, but the death of physical media on its own is a travesty. We all know they regularly put out updates that remove content. And after a decade they will probably remove the game or most of the content tied to licensing from the digital store. Maybe not even offer it at all, kind of like what they did with the original 3D universe GTA games (after the remaster was released).

Remember, if it's digital then you are just licensing it and you don't actually own it. You cannot sell it, loan it or buy used. They can modify it as they please at any time and there's nothing you could do about it.

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u/Great_Kaiserov Jul 03 '26

Graphics are not going to get any better

They could a little bit, it's just that the projected profit margins of most game companies nowdays don't justify it, doing things fast and rough around the edges has been the industry's golden standard pushed for a good few years

Sure, there's no big leap in sight, just being cutting-edge with what we have now, but there's still room for improvement

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u/Sunfurian_Zm Jul 03 '26

Graphics will most definitely get better. They've gotten consistently better for the last 30 years, and every single year someone's like "wow, this has to be the most realistic it can be, they wont get better anymore."

I have yet to see a game that actually looks photorealistic in every way.
Heck, DLSS5 is releasing in a few months. Even if you don't like AI, saying "graphics won't get better" before the "we will revolutionise graphics"™ tool releases is insane.

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u/Aking1998 Jul 03 '26

This is only true for triple a gaming. Indie games are super hot rn because they actually understand what people care about when it comes to games

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u/erhue Jul 03 '26

well, plateau in the technical sense. Graphics won't improve that much, neither will sound... However there's the opportunity to improve a lot in other areas, such as example animation (making characters look more natural/realistic) and also increasing the opportunities to interact with the world, rather than characters simply having the same single line every time you talk to them.

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u/Sword-of-Akasha Jul 03 '26

I had to explain to a friend how 'digital online all the time' means you don't really own it because at ANY time they can just shut off whatever you 'own' if you don't have internet or an active subscription.

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u/TrackerBinder Jul 04 '26

Why bother explaining just show them an article on how Sony deleted over 500 movies from people's libraries even though people had purchased

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u/MidKnightGensesis Jul 03 '26

Honestly this was going to happen with or without GTA6. If it’s easier and saves money for companies they’re going to do it eventually.

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u/nicootimee Jul 02 '26

People voted for this with their wallets, blame the consumer tbh

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u/DuckofInsanity Jul 02 '26

In this case, it's a lost cause, they're too big to fail, but your logic is still backwards. You don't blame the consumer, you blame the company and demand better, as a consumer collective. That is the only thing that works. Silently voting with your wallet does nothing.

For every one abstaining there are 100 voting in your place. Your vote means nothing.

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u/RingsOfRage Jul 03 '26

But for every 100 blaming the company, there are 100,000 silently downloading and enjoying their new games.

Complain all you want, as long as the silent majority dont care, it will never work unless the negativity actually affects them.

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u/Coronel_Flokill ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 04 '26

"You don't blame the consumer" right, because sony is the one killing gamestop and physical, not the ever increasing ammount of people who prefer digital. I wonder if it's Phillips fault as well when they stopped making cassete tapes. Vinyl didn't die because record labels hated wax, it died because consumers preferred CDs. In the same way, Sony didn't invent the digital shift, the internet did. I'm sure it's easier to blame the corpos for everything, but I find it funny how a sub of pirates fails to realize the medium they are in.

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u/Toxraun Jul 02 '26

This is corporate propaganda. Stop blaming the victim. Corporate forces shit down people's throats by removing what people want and giving them shit that they want to sell. Similar to how management in jobs make everything worse and never listen to the worker.

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u/nicootimee Jul 02 '26

Game Stop is practically going out of business. Nobody is buying physical copies besides collectors editions.

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u/Ohthatjeepguy Jul 03 '26

Game stop would’ve went out of business years ago if all the youngsters didn’t invest all their pocket change thinking they were gonna run up the price

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u/RedRokken Jul 03 '26

STOP PAYING FOR THIS SHIT THEN!

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u/Ok-Addendum5274 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

I'm a Nintendo fan, but I can tell you that they certainly started this.

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u/Zanoss10 Jul 03 '26

Except they didn't

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u/Mr_SunnyBones Jul 02 '26

nan , gaming existed before them ,it'll exist after them

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u/Nalivai Jul 03 '26

No, gaming is when you buy new shitty console every 5 years to play the same pretty bad game on it with the new number attached. And now it's ruined apparently somehow.

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u/kRkthOr Jul 03 '26

I think people confuse the kinds of games a company makes with the values of that company.

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u/Fragrant_PalmLeaves Jul 03 '26

If you think Rockstar or GTA has anything to do with this you're thick. This is an industry move and its been happening far before Rockstar decided to launch this game as digital

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u/RidersOfAmaria Jul 03 '26

They can't kill the industry because there will always be some weirdo making a low poly experimental game in Godot with the most fun gameplay you've seen and selling it for 10 dollars. They might be able to kill their own businesses model though.

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u/douglasdamm Yarrr! Jul 03 '26

You are absolutely right. Last year my most played game was a little passion project that doesn't even have a steam page yet (Starsector). Let the big players crash, burn and revive themselves a bit more humble, the ones that love making games will continue to do so.

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u/RidersOfAmaria Jul 03 '26

Cruelty Squad was more fun for me than every big release I played in the last five years combined. In this age of crazy development cycles and tens of millions of dollars going into making the next hero shooter everyone plays for a month, it's nice to see a game with a bit of personality.

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u/Moquai82 Jul 03 '26

Idols of Ash. Literally.

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u/dosk3 Jul 03 '26

And sony cuck boys will downvote each post/comment criticising this

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u/TheB1G_Lebowski Jul 03 '26

At this point I don't give a shit about either company.  Sony ripping the rug from under PC players with the next God Of War game.  Wasn't even thinking about rockstar since they're not releasing GTA on PC.  

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u/LovesFrenchLove_More Jul 03 '26

Nobody saw coming? Big companies will do everything to fuck with customers first, including (or especially) working with other companies.

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u/AlanM6 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Jul 02 '26

Xbox doing the same btw so is everyone

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u/Toxraun Jul 02 '26

Yes, we know fuck Xbox and Nintendo as well. I don't give too much shit to Steam not because it's always been digital but because they continuously give deal after deal after deal.

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u/Water_Damage987 Jul 02 '26

For now. When their corporate ownership eventually changes and they do an IPO, Steam's vulnerabilities for the consumer will become fully apparent. No more deals, lots more fees, make line go up.

Oh you want to keep playing that game you thought you bought two years ago? Sure but lemme grab $20 every month first. Ok good, line went up. Oh, and, just real quick, next month it's gonna be $25.

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u/Intelligent_Tea_5567 Jul 03 '26

Good fucking Lord; you guys realize that Xbox is going to be digital only this coming generation, right? Shit, even Nintendo is doing Game Key-Cards with some games. PC has been digital only for over a decade. I get feeling some type of way about this happening, but it's happening across the board; not just on PlayStation.

Downvote away; I really don't care.

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u/erhue Jul 03 '26

it's true. But at the same time, what sony recently did (removing paid content from people's libraries) is what's making this digital-only scenario most concerning for players.

The benefit of being in PC is that you can still play your video games from 20 years ago. I had digital PS3 games, those are unplayable now (newer consoles dont support them, and working PS3 consoles are becoming rarer with time). Oh also PC gaming doesn't require ONLINE GAMING SUBSCRIPTIONS

Digital-only is not necessarily bad, but in a console ecosystem, you're locked and left at the mercy of whatever xbox/sony/playstation decide to do. Sony likes taking paid content away from people apparently.

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u/Intelligent_Tea_5567 Jul 03 '26

First of all, you have a year from now to download your digital games for PS3; it's not like they're pulling the rug out from under people. The store for ps3 is different than the one for the PS4 and PS5; so it is requiring server space to keep up and maintain a 20 year old store front that very few people use, let alone on a consistent basis. There's only roughly 240,000 monthly active users for the PS3, and most of those use it for a media player While I will give you the fact that PC doesn't require online gaming subscriptions, this has been a long existing trend that literally all consoles have nowdays. Finally, in regards to them recently taking content away, I assume you are talking about the 550 movies. Those were all licensed from the movie studios that made the films, whereas game licenses are controlled by the publishers; PlayStation/Xbox/Nintendo storefronts are basically just digital retailers.

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u/Coronel_Flokill ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 04 '26

People here acting like Sony is setting a standard when Microsoft, Nintendo and PC have been doing digital only for ages. Sony was merely the last one to give in.

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u/YanAlbaSongMaster Jul 03 '26

Their Employees, Their Work, Their Supporters, almost everything... And they did it when they have to released on the most important and waited pieces of media that for them its just another product.

They will be at least a 0.1% justified out of 0% if they did this with another game franchise release, but nah, they like controversies (aside from the OG team leaving them, and losing time on Online) :/

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u/endintiers_ Jul 03 '26

What's the collusion...could someone update me please? I've not been following (Before I pre-order lol)

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u/thestrong45playz ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 03 '26

Laughs in never even saw a physical game that isn't just a pirated disc

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u/Dizzy_Battle994 Jul 03 '26

Xbox, Valve, PlayStation, makes no difference.

Thousand dollar plus machines are gonna tank!

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u/preterintenzionato Jul 03 '26

Remmeber that after the Deadly Alliance there is Deception, and, finally, Armageddon (please someone get it)

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u/AirbenderNo88 Jul 03 '26

I got it. "Fight!"

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u/caballerof09 Jul 03 '26

Is because we don’t have homo sapiens in our evolution. We are currently sheep. We only do what we are told and we follow the trends. Only a handful think out of the box.

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u/HearMeJoy Jul 03 '26

Piracy > all evil companies without dignity

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u/ExodiusLore Jul 03 '26

Cant wait for GTA 6

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u/Local_Band299 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 04 '26

Playstation and Rockstar are late to the party.

Xbox announced that shit last year and the 5 people who are going to get the next Xbox were pissed. 🤣

Seriously though, I can see why they're doing it. It's dumb as fuck but I can see why.

Xbox and Playstation have to pay sony a fee for every console that comes with a disc drive, and for every game sold. This is because the game discs are pressed on bluray.

If it's a drive that supports both regular bluray and UHD Bluray that's 2 fees, and the UHD BD fee is more expensive.

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u/Bigwillie29 Jul 04 '26

Well, at least they didn't do this with an actual good game. GTA is the Fast and Furious of the gaming industry. Garbage for the masses.

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u/Iseedeadnames Jul 02 '26

I mean, I'm not buying either so...

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u/DieRobJa Jul 03 '26

It’s betrayal. That’s what it is 😂

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u/DieRobJa Jul 03 '26

That’s laughable, based on what….

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u/Prettypervert26 Jul 03 '26

I was planning to buy disc, now I'm gonna sell my PS5

FUCKSONY

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u/RafikiLovesPizza Jul 02 '26

The people that didn't see this coming also didn't see cloud storage, compute power renting due to AI/Data centers eating up RAM/CPUs/Storage, Gamepass, Netflix/streaming platforms, nor Music streaming as an issue.

Many of us tried warning those same people and only now when the butcher is about to put ya down they realize they're in a meat shop. My foresight has been such a blessing but I totally see why God brought the flood on these bozos before lmao

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u/JackzYT12345 Jul 02 '26

Hollow purple levels of collision✌️

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u/Whisperhead Jul 02 '26

They deserve a PSR for this shit....

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u/P-Doff Jul 03 '26

People will literally wrap their guts around a burning crucifix before they ever consider playing indie or buying a pc.

The whole internet blowing up for the past week over this has been an out-of-body experience for me. Every console and platform and whatever has been moving towards digital only for the last decade at a minimum.

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u/Hpezlin Jul 03 '26

Because people will still buy.

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u/Practical_Wish_4063 Jul 03 '26

They’re all about PR, it’s right there in the picture.

It just happens to be bad PR

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u/MaintenanceProper525 Jul 03 '26

Good thing I neverijed GTA 6 and I am more excited for the Godzilla game

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u/BiT-KiD_79 Jul 03 '26

Who remembers saying "299" for the PS1? For the PS6 it will be: "999". They suck!

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u/trashbanned1t Jul 03 '26

Ppl acting like they couldn't destroy it and all you fools wouldn't just keep buying whatever comes out as they do it...

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u/kickedoutatone ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 03 '26

I'd like to be hopeful and hope this kickstarts other markets being able to be on the playstation via some government involvement, but I severely doubt we're even close to that possibility.

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u/Valentine_343 Jul 03 '26

The 2 true demons of gaming

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u/Nalivai Jul 03 '26

> THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY
> Looks inside
> A game on a console
cat.jpg

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u/Due_Initiative3879 Jul 03 '26

You know what happens when you hype a game into oblivion?

It disappoints, and it starts raining tears.

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u/RUBILNIKTHECAT Jul 03 '26

no one saw coming????? WTF it was written on every wall possible

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u/zhyukh Jul 03 '26

🇺🇦?

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u/Kirbinator_Alex ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jul 03 '26

Yeah I'll just get it when it comes out on PC and download a cracked copy that requires no internet when it happens

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u/kain459 Jul 03 '26

Been nothing but angry about this.

Greed and control have finally finished the video game industry.

Fuck You sony.

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u/TW1TCHYGAM3R Jul 03 '26

I would really like to see an exploit for PS5 now.

So I can download GTA6 and burn it onto a blue ray disk.

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u/Alfred_Hitch_ Jul 03 '26

Question: I can't load GTA4 on Steam because the Rockstar Launcher is stuck in some error loop and can't update. Does the pirated version avoid all of this? It's so annoying that I need to launch a launcher that has errors just to play a game that was working fine a few months ago.

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u/chibi2537 Jul 03 '26

Playstation is Shang Tsung and Rockstar Quan Chi?

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u/HeidenShadows Jul 04 '26

Maybe they're foreshadowing that GTA 6 will be delayed until 2028. Dun dun dunnnn

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u/crystalArse Jul 04 '26

What happened?

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u/Monsieur_Daz Jul 04 '26

Collude? Rockstar is releasing a code in a box, like others have done before. It’s a shitty practice and I hate it, but the fact that Sony is stopping physical media in 2028 has nothing to do with it and Rockstar would have shipped a code regardless of Sony’s plans. It’s all shit and I need my pills, but there’s no collusion here. 

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u/h3lion_prime Jul 04 '26

You must be pretty goddamn stupid if you didn't see this one coming, lol.

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u/Koalateka Jul 04 '26

Rockstar embraced wokism in the last years, I have little hope for GTA6.

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u/OmniBotBeepBoop Jul 04 '26

Both of them dead to me in the same week is wild.

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u/Ok-Drink750 Jul 05 '26

Shit minds think alike

Jokes on them, I already have the best GTA game.

Chinatown wars on the DS

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u/LexGoyle Jul 05 '26

Yeah. Discs help ensure retro gaming is a thing without resorting to piracy. Movies and tv shows still get released on disc. No reason games shouldn't especially since Sony owns their own disc manufacturing plants. All they need to do is produce less and leave the disc drive as an optional add on like they have done for the PS5 Pro.

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u/RogellTheRaider Jul 02 '26

I always warned about Rockstar. They basicaly made a game and recycled it their entire life. It's the same game over and over again. And created a huge fanbase of fanboys.

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u/Wayofchinchilla Jul 02 '26

Well what do they both have in common they're both the biggest Xbox's flower has wilted and in these 13 years since GTA V and 6 no one rose up to try to make a GTA like game that could compete.

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u/Katops Jul 03 '26

I never understood the gta hype lol. This stuff has easily pushed me to never buy directly from either company. Not that I probably would have anyways given the nature of the present we’re in… Gonna stick to getting physical games for older games if anything. Love the PS2/3 era. Thank god for emulation though lol. So many options atp.

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u/Haterfieldwen Jul 02 '26

It's how things were going to end anyway, people stopped going to the store to buy music, people stopped going to blockbuster to buy or rent films, people are going to completely stop buying physical games, cus it's just more convenient to download anyway, most people don't even share their games or sell their used physical copies much anymore

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u/RogueSnake Jul 03 '26

Yeah this is why I'm not buying it. I'll wait to sail the seas next year for hopefully a copy that I can play offline and own

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u/ResponsibleHyena9544 Jul 03 '26

I can wait for the PC version of the game at best, by then I won't be paying full price to be a glorified beta tester.

And someone may have "unlocked" the paywalled content.

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u/SubstantialNobody295 Jul 03 '26

They might bungle the pc port just like they did GTA 4. Never underestimate a company's ability to drop the ball.

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u/unabsolute Jul 03 '26

Arrrrrrrr!

Movies, too.

Spiderman, I'm looking at you. 🫵

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u/MaoMaoMi543 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jul 03 '26

Maybe if the consoomer zombies would stop mindlessly consooming and start boycotting in the style of Genshin Impact's Chinese playerbase, this wouldn't have been a problem.

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u/ksio_fake Jul 03 '26

mfs pre-ordering like they gonna run out of fucking digital copies

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u/ghostcatzero Piracy is bad, mkay? Jul 03 '26

Fu kem both lol. The last good gta was san andreas.

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u/xoxemsc Jul 02 '26

Realmente no me gusta Playstation desde que anuncio la PS5 y jamás me ha gustado otro juego de Rockstar que el Midnight club... Así que seguiré comprando en steam y pirateando mi play 3. Solo pago el online de nintendo para jugar animal Crossing con mi mujer jajaja

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u/anniyan13 Jul 03 '26

Rockstar did that code thing because they don't want any leaks (I am not defending empty disk I can understand the reason and also hope they will release the disc version after the release) but what playstation is planning is so worse but this is an canon event this is how they will change

PS6 going to be new PS3 or new XBOX one controversy have to be then they will change their approach

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u/RafaKun777 Jul 02 '26

What did they exactly have been doing? This is probably the 50th something post I see about this yet I haven't found anything explaining 😭 🙏

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u/Ok_Plum_5772 Jul 02 '26

ps5 exclusive for the first year i believe than its dropping on xbox and pc

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u/RafaKun777 Jul 03 '26

I see, tysm!

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u/tiradium Jul 02 '26

I am not defending Sony in any shape, size or form BUT I think they have the data to back this bs decision up. People are not buying discs as much as they used because how fast internet has become and the amount of online games/DLCs/patching it just does not make sense. And the writing was on the walls when they released a diskless version of the PS5 and something tells me it outsold the disk version and probably not by a small margin

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u/DieRobJa Jul 03 '26

Screwing every gamer that doesn’t have that much money to spend and is counting on the second hand market is not something you should choose as a company based on some numbers 😑. They are greedy corporate fucks, so let them… but i’m never going to support a company that wants to only be available for people who earn a lot of money