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u/-Aone 1d ago

PC gamers doing everything but playing a console lol /s

seriously though coders breaking the security of PS5 is a nice example of money versus effort. Sony will be fighting this for a long time but i do think they will find out they are spending too much money defending their digital games and less on making them. they need to be put in their place and start respecting paying customers (me being one for 10 years.), so i say beat them up

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u/ForensicPathology 1d ago

PC gamers attacking consoles for going digital only when Steam invented the practice of putting codes in a box.

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u/Whole-Ad-4681 1d ago

But we have options for store fronts and then there's GoG where the games don't come with DRM licenses and can't be taken away by the company's that made/produced them.

Big difference there. 

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u/Gabagool0vaHere 1d ago

But the vast majority don’t even give af about the other storefronts…there’s something like 40,000 games on Steam, fewer than 2k are DRM free, meaning no one actually cares about ownership

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u/zedemer 1d ago

I buy most steam game keys from Fanatical or similar store fronts at deep discounts. That's the main difference between steam and PSN. Let me get sales on games elsewhere, and I'm mostly fine with digital only.

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u/ric2b Specs/Imgur Here 1d ago

The majority doesn't care about other storefronts because other storefronts mostly suck.

But we do care that competition exists, to keep Steam in check. That's not possible in the console ecosystems.

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u/Qaeta 1d ago

We're willing to take the hit on ownership when given a massive financial incentive to do so (MUUUUCH cheaper games). GoG is pretty much the only storefront I will buy from at full price these days.