Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store

• Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Steam and PC gaming if anything. That and changing life priorities in my 30s and 40s. GoG and epic too. Between them I have almost 1000 games I didn’t pay for. Combined with hundreds on steam from humble etc. I probably spend more time trying to decide what to play than playing it.

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  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Valve is also the only company out of these big gaming companies who do lot of Open Source (working on it and funding other projects) and care about Linux. It maybe coincidental, but these care and goals align with my personal interests. No other company in the gaming industry does that to this extend, plus its an open platform. And being a private company brings also lot of freedom to not listen to shareholders.

    The only thing is, that Steam itself is not Open Source… and the uncertainty what will happen if one day Gabe will no longer control…

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    • BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That last note. Ughhh… Don’t put fear in my heart. Every generation it’s “all you have to do to come out on top is not step on your own dick” and every generation these massive companies manage to find at least one way to fuck up spectacularly. Steam ISN’T just doing nothing, but even if they did, it would be a lot better than most of the major players most of the time

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  • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Preferring a different option is not a boycott of the one

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    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But refusing to buy from one company specifically is. Just because you buy similar products somewhere else doesn’t mean that you aren’t boycotting the other company.

      I refuse to buy from Blizzard, Activision, EA, and Ubisoft. I refuse to buy Sony games so long as they require a PSN account for PC games. Just because I buy indie games doesn’t mean that I’m not boycotting those AAA companies for their actions.

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      • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes.

        But that wasn’t the reasoning that was given.

        I don’t buy from A because I prefer B… Is not a boycott.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not the person you asked, but for me:

  • The music CD rootkit
  • removing OtherOS from the PlayStation 3
  • trying to push various proprietary formats like MemoryStick and MiniDisc
  • DRM in ATRAC3
  • etc.

  Take your pick!

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Omg their stupid ass 4x normal price proprietary memory sticks lmao

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m still pissed about the rootkit scandal. That was 21 years ago now, and I haven’t spent a penny on Sony products since.

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  • Strider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Trying to only establish proprietary media in the past, mostly ignoring open standards.

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  • OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ugh God. I remember that “Magic Gate” bullshit when the PSP launched. They started a trend with the Walkman and they’re trying to get lightning to strike twice. Never could do it though. Good.

    Those greedy assholes need to engineer and innovate in other areas.

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