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Mr_Karate_II 03/29/24 5:43:25 PM #1: |
you'd think there'd be some legislation to protect us consumers against shit like Microsoft is currently trying to pull along with other companies.
I hate to admit that I own 70+ digital games and knowing one day I can lose access to them for some arbitrary reason makes me sick. This is why I will never pay full price for a digital game or even a physical copy because even with those you still don't actually own the game, it's a license/key and nothing more. --- Michigan Wolverines 30 to Ohio state 24: 11/25/23 Michigan Wolverines Football:15-0 ,Rose Bowl Champions&National Champions ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Tyranthraxus 03/29/24 5:45:38 PM #2: |
Buy GOG. Make offline backups. No one can ever take that away from you
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PowerOats 03/29/24 5:46:18 PM #3: |
Keep buying physical ... Copied to Clipboard!
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TotallyNotAGirl 03/29/24 5:46:49 PM #4: |
Oi matey
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Mr_Karate_II 03/29/24 5:49:41 PM #6: |
TotallyNotAGirl posted...
Oi mateyNope --- Michigan Wolverines 30 to Ohio state 24: 11/25/23 Michigan Wolverines Football:15-0 ,Rose Bowl Champions&National Champions ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Torgo 03/29/24 5:51:33 PM #7: |
Check out Ross Scott's YouTube Channel "Accursed Farms" and his Dead Game News series.
Ross is currently attempting to find various legal means and methods to prevent companies from killing games through the games as a service model. Currently he is soliciting help and setting up resources to see if they can stop Ubisoft's "The Crew" from being taken away and rendered unplayable - as this is one of the earliest and most egregious cases of a "games as a service" about to go away. Just search Accursed Farms or Dead Game News on YouTube. --- Aren't we all just a series of tubes? ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Ricemills 03/29/24 5:52:01 PM #8: |
Don't buy them.
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Irony 03/29/24 5:52:17 PM #9: |
We have to rise up
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DemonBuffet 03/29/24 5:53:58 PM #11: |
PowerOats posted...
Keep buying physical Ricemills posted... Don't buy them. Such simple solutions! Lots of bangers that release digital only eventually get a physical release. The only digital games Ill buy are live server games since they will die out eventually. Like Helldivers 2 being my most recent digital purchase. --- Posted from my iPhone 3gs. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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ForsakenHermit 03/29/24 5:54:00 PM #12: |
--- Beware the fanatic! Too often his cure is deadlier by far than the evil he denounces!-Stan Lee RIP Make Arcades Great Again! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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HOON 03/29/24 5:54:24 PM #13: |
Ricemills posted...
Don't buy them. --- R.I.P. #43 "Kill all tires" ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NihonOctopus 03/29/24 5:54:51 PM #14: |
TotallyNotAGirl posted...
Oi matey --- >_> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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YoungMutual 03/29/24 5:55:01 PM #15: |
Piracy, they don't respect you, so why should you?
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Vyrulisse 03/29/24 5:55:22 PM #16: |
You know how.
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Phoro 03/29/24 5:56:31 PM #17: |
Realistically, there is no 'fighting back'. The future of games is digital downloads/streaming.
That said, I never buy digital games at full price, and I have a pretty beefy library of physical games that I'm always adding to. --- It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. - George Carlin ... Copied to Clipboard!
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PraetorXyn 03/29/24 5:57:14 PM #18: |
Just buy your games on PC? Nobody to my knowledge has ever lost a copy of a digital game, or if its happened, its exceedingly rare. Tons of games get removed from Steam for various reasons, like licensing agreements running out etc. or them removing the original when they do remasters like Capcom recently did with the DMC games, etc.
But if you own the games already you can still download and play them. They just remove it from sale so the only way you can buy a copy is buying a key on the secondary market from G2A etc., the same way you can only buy out-of-print physical games by paying exorbitant prices on the secondary market for them. If they do take a game you legally bought, just pirate it as youre on PC. You can also backup a Steam or GOG copy to a local server or NAS if youre exceedingly paranoid. The actual risk is games like The Crew, where you dont actually lose the copy, but the copy becomes worthless because they turned the servers off. But that affects physical copies too as far as I know. --- https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561198052113750 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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ScazarMeltex 03/29/24 5:57:17 PM #19: |
If purchase isn't ownership then piracy isn't theft.
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ForsakenHermit 03/29/24 6:00:53 PM #21: |
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My PS4 isn't connected to the internet and plays games just fine. --- Beware the fanatic! Too often his cure is deadlier by far than the evil he denounces!-Stan Lee RIP Make Arcades Great Again! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Mad-Dogg 03/29/24 6:07:15 PM #22: |
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Its wild how much this has spread nowadays. Yeah, it is true that certain games like that one call of duty game makes you download all of it's data off it's server, and obviously the online-only games like outriders for example won't contain all of it's data on the disc. Vast majority of stuff out there, take resident evil 4 remake, FF7 remake, demon's souls PS5, ratchet and clank a rift apart, etc. etc., all that stuff is on the disc already. Unplug the PS5 from the internet and it'd install the game just fine. (With the PS5 if you have it connected to the internet, it will download a portion of the game off the PSN servers and a portion off the disc to speed up the installation). --- GTag:MadDogg730 PSN:lMadDogg NNID:xMadDoggx NS friend code:5313-0564-0819 Go buy cyber shadow like right now. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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SauI_Goodman 03/29/24 6:08:23 PM #23: |
They did this to me with smash tv and tmnt. Never again physical only forever.
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MrDrMan 03/29/24 6:10:38 PM #24: |
Fuck these companies. I bought BG3 with an Egyptian key it was like $25. Just do whatever you can to cheap out on these punks.
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K181 03/29/24 6:12:05 PM #25: |
Dont buy from companies you find scummy.
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TMOG 03/29/24 6:12:37 PM #26: |
Buy physical. Buy used. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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MarcoRubio 03/29/24 6:13:21 PM #28: |
PraetorXyn posted...
Nobody to my knowledge has ever lost a copy of a digital game, or if its happened, its exceedingly rare. Literally happens all the fucking time --- Confirmed unbiased ... Copied to Clipboard!
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FortuneCookie 03/29/24 6:14:09 PM #29: |
TotallyNotAGirl posted... Oi matey Mr_Karate_II posted... Nope Buy physical and abstain from games that only let you rent digitally. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Irony 03/29/24 6:14:19 PM #30: |
I once downloaded digital game on my phone and I couldn't find the APK again after I deleted it
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TMOG 03/29/24 6:16:17 PM #31: |
[LFAQs-redacted-quote] Then don't buy them. If the digital only consoles don't sell, they'll either have to bring physical options back or step away from the console market. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Pikachuchupika 03/29/24 6:20:08 PM #32: |
Arrr. The high seas look mighty beautiful, mateys! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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CobraGT 03/29/24 6:20:33 PM #33: |
I rent my home.
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PraetorXyn 03/29/24 6:22:01 PM #34: |
MarcoRubio posted...
Literally happens all the fucking timeProvide a single example of someone who purchased a game on Steam actually losing that copy, rather than it just being removed from the store so people who dont own it already cant purchase it. Ive got over 1000 games, havent lost access to a single one removed from the store that I owned already. --- https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561198052113750 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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TMOG 03/29/24 6:24:30 PM #35: |
PraetorXyn posted... Provide a single example of someone who purchased a game on Steam actually losing that copy, rather than it just being removed from the store so people who dont own it already cant purchase it. Ive got over 1000 games, havent lost access to a single one removed from the store that I owned already. https://sea.ign.com/steam/197393/news/about-3-percent-of-steam-users-will-lose-access-to-their-library ... Copied to Clipboard!
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PraetorXyn 03/29/24 6:29:51 PM #36: |
TMOG posted...
https://sea.ign.com/steam/197393/news/about-3-percent-of-steam-users-will-lose-access-to-their-libraryThat doesnt at all say what the title suggests. Nobody is losing their Steam library. Luddites and tech-illiterates are being forced to stop using antiquated operating systems. --- https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561198052113750 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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TMOG 03/29/24 6:32:48 PM #37: |
PraetorXyn posted... That doesnt at all say what the title suggests. Nobody is losing their Steam library. Luddites and tech-illiterates are being forced to stop using antiquated operating systems.Valve: "You will lose your Steam library if you don't upgrade your operating system" You: "Nobody is losing their Steam library" Holy shit man I know you're a Steam fanboy but holy shit it's right there in their own words ... Copied to Clipboard!
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PraetorXyn 03/29/24 6:44:40 PM #38: |
TMOG posted...
Valve: "You will lose your Steam library if you don't upgrade your operating system"Nobody is losing their Steam library drama queen. Losing access to your library until you upgrade to an OS that isn't ancient and losing your library are two very different things. Try reading beyond the title next time. The company announced in a recent blog post that Steam will cease to support legacy Windows systems such as Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.No where in there or in that blog post does Valve say "You will lose your Steam library if you don't upgrade your operating system." The library isn't going anywhere. It will be there when you upgrade whether it takes 2 months or 20 years. --- https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561198052113750 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Tyranthraxus 03/29/24 7:15:22 PM #39: |
TMOG posted...
Valve: "You will lose your Steam library if you don't upgrade your operating system" Dude nobody is losing access to their steam library. They're just not supporting old windows operating systems anymore. --- It says right here in Matthew 16:4 "Jesus doth not need a giant Mecha." https://i.imgur.com/dQgC4kv.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Mechu 03/29/24 7:16:14 PM #40: |
That's the neat thing. You don't.
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NihonOctopus 03/29/24 7:21:03 PM #43: |
Why not just update to Windows 10 or 11? >_>
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coolpal23 03/29/24 7:21:58 PM #44: |
NihonOctopus posted...
Why not just update to Windows 10 or 11? >_>imo windows 7 was the best, and the only reason i upgraded to 10 was because newer hardware wouldnt be compatible with 7 --- MSI B360-A PRO|EVGA FTW3 8Gb Rtx 3070ti DDR4 2400 32Gb G.skill| i5 8600K 3.6Ghz Steam: That Hero Luka "Fact and fiction, where do you draw the line?" ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Tyranthraxus 03/29/24 7:23:30 PM #46: |
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I'm pretty sure it's free. You might have to go to 8 first. Unless your hardware doesn't support tpm 2.0 or doesn't have enough memory it should be free --- It says right here in Matthew 16:4 "Jesus doth not need a giant Mecha." https://i.imgur.com/dQgC4kv.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Just_a_loser 03/29/24 7:23:55 PM #47: |
Buy mostly physical.
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FurryPhilosifer 03/29/24 7:24:52 PM #48: |
PC-wise I pretty much exclusively use GOG. On consoles, I only buy games that work without any online connectivity or required updates.
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Tyranthraxus 03/29/24 7:29:21 PM #50: |
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Oh... Well you can always just download and install Windows 11 straight from Microsoft for free. They'll get pissy after a month and turn your wallpaper black and some letters in the corner that says "plz license this OS" but they let you keep using it. --- It says right here in Matthew 16:4 "Jesus doth not need a giant Mecha." https://i.imgur.com/dQgC4kv.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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