I just saw, and was wondering if someone would post it here. It was always going to happen. Anyone retarded enough to fully abandon physical media will have it happen to them too. You let Valve ruin the video game marketplace already and kill physical PC media (yes the people on this site too, some of you ride Gabe Newell's dick like a pornstar), and now retards are letting Sony and Microsoft do the same and happily gobbling it down. The writing was on the wall, they show nothing but contempt for their customers in making woke games, this isn't a step too far for them because they hate you and want you broke and forever renting from them.
This is why I keep shifting more and more of my purchases over there. I've also got a backlog of games that in theory I should repurchase over there, but I'm lazy and not made of money so I keep putting it off even during the summer sale.
No, they just have some convoluted ability to preserve installations as done through Steam. When Valve's servers go dark for the last time your games are still gone and I wish people would stop fooling themselves into believing otherwise just so they can continue worshipping Gaben. Valve is one of the least customer-hostile companies in the industry but that doesn't mean they're without flaw.
You let Valve ruin the video game marketplace already
I didn't let anything happen. Ive been buying physical PC games right up until they started putting codes in boxes. Now there's literally no other choice.
The cost of service-based offsite backup hosting is also kind of fucked, as I found out when looking into some of the logistics required to make the jump to Linux. Turns out all the services that offer "we'll offer storage to back up your shit for $X/month" quickly turn into "We'll offer Y TB of storage for $X/month" real quick once they realize you're tech savvy enough to wander outside of a Windows ecosystem. Ballpark numbers are about $7 per TB/month. Anyone who's serious about backing up their stuff is going to have that bill balloon to an exorbitant price tag pretty damn fast. I'm looking at close to $600 per year just to back up my main tower, which is nuts and a non-zero part of my decision to stop exploring the switch to Linux. Can I afford it? Yes. Is it a reasonable price tag for a consumer level service? Not really. I'll stick to my $100/year plan that keeps me locked into the OS I was already using thanks.
That's why I still can't bring myself to like Valve. I mean I can accept they do better than their peers today at trying to be good for it, but that's only because Newell started it all and sort of stayed consistent, but everyone else sprinted past him even closer to the proverbial pot of gold.
I literally just in the last six months used the legally obtained game assets from a CD I bought in 1995 to play a game. I didn't have to go re-buy it. I didn't have to go pirate it. I still had it because I bought it in a form that they can't confiscate. I could go sign into Steam today, find they delisted and cleared my entire library, and the only recourse I'd have is the "well sue us and our big pockets." Sure, so far they've been good and I think in general they are trustworthy, today. Tomorrow is a new day. For them to do that to my old physical games, someone has to come take them by force.
Thy are already partially doing that with unwanted updates and the same goes for woke gog too unless you download every version of every game a person has there.
Yup, that's why I'm building a physical media library. I only watch movies and shows online if they're worth the work of making a copy and backing it up every year.
I just saw, and was wondering if someone would post it here. It was always going to happen. Anyone retarded enough to fully abandon physical media will have it happen to them too. You let Valve ruin the video game marketplace already and kill physical PC media (yes the people on this site too, some of you ride Gabe Newell's dick like a pornstar), and now retards are letting Sony and Microsoft do the same and happily gobbling it down. The writing was on the wall, they show nothing but contempt for their customers in making woke games, this isn't a step too far for them because they hate you and want you broke and forever renting from them.
GoG lets you fully download the game without needing internet access to play afterward.
Pirate bay too. Great service.
This is why I keep shifting more and more of my purchases over there. I've also got a backlog of games that in theory I should repurchase over there, but I'm lazy and not made of money so I keep putting it off even during the summer sale.
Technically Steam lets you do that too, it's just a bit more of a chore than it is with GoG.
Steam lets you fetch the fully-functional install file?
No, they just have some convoluted ability to preserve installations as done through Steam. When Valve's servers go dark for the last time your games are still gone and I wish people would stop fooling themselves into believing otherwise just so they can continue worshipping Gaben. Valve is one of the least customer-hostile companies in the industry but that doesn't mean they're without flaw.
I didn't let anything happen. Ive been buying physical PC games right up until they started putting codes in boxes. Now there's literally no other choice.
Wow, you didn’t send out a single letter bomb for uncle Ted?
Typical "principles first" cuck out here broadcasting his Ls...
Where are your outcomes, then?
I've pretty much abandoned physical media, barring occasional book purchases, but I also have .mp3s that are old enough to rent a car.
I have never paid for a .mp3.
Do you control the physical media on which your file are stored? If so, still counts.
This is why the storage prices going up 250% to 500% in a few months pisses me off so much. It's becomming unaffordable to keep your own content.
Especially if you keep several copies to ensure data integrity and recovery from storage failure ( like RAID 1 ) and you need 2+ times the space.
The cost of service-based offsite backup hosting is also kind of fucked, as I found out when looking into some of the logistics required to make the jump to Linux. Turns out all the services that offer "we'll offer storage to back up your shit for $X/month" quickly turn into "We'll offer Y TB of storage for $X/month" real quick once they realize you're tech savvy enough to wander outside of a Windows ecosystem. Ballpark numbers are about $7 per TB/month. Anyone who's serious about backing up their stuff is going to have that bill balloon to an exorbitant price tag pretty damn fast. I'm looking at close to $600 per year just to back up my main tower, which is nuts and a non-zero part of my decision to stop exploring the switch to Linux. Can I afford it? Yes. Is it a reasonable price tag for a consumer level service? Not really. I'll stick to my $100/year plan that keeps me locked into the OS I was already using thanks.
Strange that Blurays haven't been pulled back when there is a better business case for them now.
I feel like this is implied in my statement about never having paid for a .mp3.
That's why I still can't bring myself to like Valve. I mean I can accept they do better than their peers today at trying to be good for it, but that's only because Newell started it all and sort of stayed consistent, but everyone else sprinted past him even closer to the proverbial pot of gold.
I literally just in the last six months used the legally obtained game assets from a CD I bought in 1995 to play a game. I didn't have to go re-buy it. I didn't have to go pirate it. I still had it because I bought it in a form that they can't confiscate. I could go sign into Steam today, find they delisted and cleared my entire library, and the only recourse I'd have is the "well sue us and our big pockets." Sure, so far they've been good and I think in general they are trustworthy, today. Tomorrow is a new day. For them to do that to my old physical games, someone has to come take them by force.
Thy are already partially doing that with unwanted updates and the same goes for woke gog too unless you download every version of every game a person has there.
Yup, that's why I'm building a physical media library. I only watch movies and shows online if they're worth the work of making a copy and backing it up every year.