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Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

It is however transferable and resellable legally. Digital only versions, even DRM free are not.

In my opinion, this has been one of the only things about consoles that has been a plus side compared to PC. Now that is gone and I can't imagine why anyone would stay except out of a lack of finances to move to PC.

Also, nope. If people only liked digital DRM free games because you could pirate them GOG wouldn't exist and it would have been out of business years ago. You are believing corporate propaganda with that lie.

I like DRM free because games with DRM usually run like shit or at least noticably worse compared to DRM free.

Also, you ever had a day off work to game during a Steam or PlayStation outage? I was able to play all of my GOG games with zero problem. I don't even know if GOG has ever gone down before, because it doesn't matter to let me play my games. Same thing with SOME physical PlayStation games usually single player. Could play that during outages too.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Technically no, they’re not supposed to be re-sold. Says so on box and disc.

    DRM free means there’s no digital rights management, meaning there’s no ownership restrictions essentially.

    GoG was also, reading between the lines, recently going to be closed. It was basically given to one of the founders of CDPR. Why would CDPR do that if it was making any sort of profit?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    I think the not allowed to be resold and saying so on the box must depend on your country. In mine it is allowed and doesn't say you can't on the box just that you have to abide by Sony terms of service and all that which they've said before doesn't prohibit you reselling the discs.

    I know what DRM is but DRM free games are still restricted in that I can't trade or sell it however if gog ever banned me since I already have the offline installers backed up I could still continue to enjoy my games and they can't ever take them away short of suing me or something.

    Sony already said before you can sell and trade disc games (which is why they are going after them now)

    Also GOG has an annual revenue of around $250 million. I think they (CDPR) just wanted to focus more on being a game publisher instead of running a competing storefront against steam.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Might be country dependant, in my country they have lending and re-sale as not allowed:

    (Not my photo)

    Check the writing starting from the bottom left of the disc and going clockwise around the edge.

    Revenue numbers without profit numbers mean nothing unfortunately. Again though, they wouldn’t sell it off at a price a single guy can afford if it was making any profit.

    I love GoG, but they’re fighting realistically an un-winnable uphill battle. DRM free being their thing means that they’ll never get most games, and therefore most players.

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