Comment on PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks

• HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You could have made digital backups of your physical games and stored that somewhere safe.

  You cannot make backups of DRM’d Steam games that work without Steam.

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  • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Please don't fucking tell me you mad digital backup of your 50 xbox games and 40 playstation games and have a modded playstation and xbox laying around where you can just burn them whenever you wanna play them.

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    • burliman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Exactly. Some of the replies in this thread are so disingenuous.

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      • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Just because you don’t care about backing things up doesn’t mean nobody else is.

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    • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t need to burn them, you can play them off a USB! Or over an SMB share.

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    • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How do you think PS2 ROMs are uploaded?

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    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Homie, I’ve made backups of thousands of games.

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  • Skipcast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can’t make digital backups of physical games with drm either since you need the original disc to play (or atleast that was the case last time I bought a physical game which is probably around 2005 or something lmao)

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    • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You are spot on, DRM is the problem at the core. That’s why I prefer DRM-free stores like GOG over Steam whenever possible.

      Luckily many of the old games I own on CD are also available on GOG.

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      • Laser@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Steam doesn’t enforce DRM, your game can use Steamworks even without DRM.

        The no-DRM policy sure is very good, but in the end any game on GoG is there by choice of the publisher, who could also choose not to use DRM on Steam.

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Digital backups of my Steam games exist on torrents. If Steam ever becomes shitty like this I can stop purchasing from them and reacquire it from the Jolly Roger.

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  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can make Steam offline mode and you absolutely will have access to any game installed on your machine.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s what house insurance is for.

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  • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Have you considered Game Insurance?” - Ubisoft, probably

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