Comment on PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For

EndOfLine@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apple did it to apps I bought years ago, Microsoft has done it with Live Arcade games I can no longer redownload, and Nintendo closed their online stores to consoles they stopped supporting. The only store I can think of at the moment which doesn’t seem to fuck people is Steam (perhaps Epic but it’s too new to cast opinions on).

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  • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Epic fucks people in other ways.

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  • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The only store I can think of at the moment which doesn’t seem to fuck people is Steam

    About that…

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    • AceBonobo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not exactly Valve’s fault

      “To be fair, with the servers shutdown, the game would have been impossible to play anyways. This isn’t simply because it’s an online-only game. In fact, Order of War: Challenge has 18 single-player missions as well. But due to always-online DRM, even the single-player portion of the game requires the servers to be up and running.”

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      • mPony@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I guess it's the Always-On DRM that's the issue. Best get rid of that entirely, or force developers to disclose IN LARGE PRINT if a game has it, like they did with parental warning stickers in the late 1980's. And I mean FORCE, as in "you can't be on Steam/whatever because you have unnecessary DRM"

        I can still play World Of Goo any time I damn well choose because I paid for it and I own it and the developers were probably not inherently evil humans.

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      • a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Also, at the end of the article:

        “Update: It appears that contrary to what I first believed, the single-player portion of the game—Order of War without the “Challenge”—is still available on Steam, and only the multi-player content has been removed.”

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    • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Square fucked people about there, making it impossible to play.

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• Herowyn@jlai.lu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No DRM is the way to go, physical or digital. Some physical DRM can revoke the licence on the disk (like Blu-ray)

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And don’t forget shit like Flexplay. The no-return rental DVD that self-destructs after ~48 hours. How ecological. Thankfully it was discontinued in 2011.

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    • GONADS125@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not to be confused with Flexi Disc, which was essentially a CD-sized vinyl record with a sample track, that used to be inserted into magazines. Especially big in russia.

      The sound quality left a lot to be desired. He’s a very rare Slowdive track with a banging tempo that was only released on Flexi Disc.

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      • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Warning: You left tracker in the YouTube link: https://youtu.be/TyePtIPTfB4?si=GgCtvVl-npQWAAGM

        This is just the video link: youtu.be/TyePtIPTfB4

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  • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How? It would need an internet connection to revoke it, and you can’t write to the Blu-ray disc can you? In other words, you could just turn off internet connection from the player?

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    • LifeInOregon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Blu-Ray discs can carry offline updates that blacklist other discs. All players must support these updates as part of licensing the technology. All your blu-rays may play today, but if an update comes along to revoke the license on a title and you play a disc that carries the update that enables that revocation, it won’t play back on your device. It’s occasionally been used to disable known pirated discs, and so far hasn’t been used on licensed materials, but “so far” is never much assurance.

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• PlexSheep@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Welcome to data hoarding

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  • KpntAutismus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    when 4TBs are 50-100€, you bet your ass i’m gonna host a jellyfin server for the entire family.

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    • PlexSheep@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Damn right you are

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  *coughs in pirate*

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• topperharlie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I had to change my email/account with google and couldn’t port the apps in the gplay store. This was mostly due to having a google domains that did many years ago, but still didn’t get any solution when I explained that to the google customer service. It was clear to me that is not worth wasting a penny there.

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• jaidyn999@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Physical media or local downloads is the way to go.

  PS5 games are like 90 GB. A DVD ROM stores 4.7 GB.

  Its over.

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  • crispy_kilt@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bluray?

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  • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think you missed the “local downloads” part.

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  • averyfalken@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We dong use DVDs for games anymore that are physical they use blueray. A blueray xl disc can hold line 100gb

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