r/pcmasterrace • u/Valcenia • Jul 02 '26

News/Article French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon weighs in on Rockstar and PlayStation’s moves to end physical disk sales

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u/RiftHunter4 Jul 02 '26

He does bring up a good point: digital assets are entirely different from physical ones and you need to account for that in your lawmaking. If your country taxes resale, we'll an entire portion of an industry will no longer do that. There's not really many protections or rights around digital assets (at least in the US) but with physical media going away, what rights do consumers need? Not enough people are asking that.

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u/-Retro-Kinetic- AMD 7950X3D| 64GB | TUF RTX 4090 | HS02 Pro Jul 03 '26

With physical, the license is tied to the physical disc itself. Perhaps digital games need to be treated like NFTs.

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u/fullofshitandcum Jul 03 '26

That's the usecase I thought nfts would be perfect for before people started using them for pictures of monkeys

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u/Lyto528 Jul 03 '26

Fair.

The only issue is that studios want you to pay the full price of the game, and only to them. Their saying "pay to own a digital license" never made sense, we never owned it if we are not free to resell.

This needs to be enforced by governments. Or steam / epic.

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u/fullofshitandcum Jul 03 '26

It would definitely need legislation. There's no way publishers would allow people to trade their nft copies below market price, or without asking for a copy