no thanks, i'm fine with firefox

@@witidsgo the open source way

how can be so smart and make video's on important topics like not owning games yet push actually spyware on ur users opera is spyware and been proven many time, shamme on you

And there goes your credibility down the drain...

so keeping my personal data is holding me back?

Yes lmao

Remember that one quote that gabe gave on piracy? “One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue,” Its happening all over again.

@@leifmochi5082 you're not wrong, also gabe is the best

@@leifmochi5082 it's also a pricing issue at some point.

@@leifmochi5082 I suspect if game prices tomorrow suddenly went up by $100, it would matter

They'll find a way to take your stuff even with physical copies

Drm still exists for physical copies. Like install limits. Needing to connect online, while installing. Things of that sort exist. Which may or may not have certain work arounds out there. Physical at least for gaming. Is not perfect. Unless you know it drm free and if something is drm free, well it stops mattering if it physical or digital at that point. For as long as you can back up a copy and install it. Without being force to update. Bang winner. For emulators which normally take place digitally, are often seen as great way to keep old games alive companies no longer care about. I think the main issue is just drm. Since drm can equally screw someone over, be it physical or digital. Unless we are talking about physical books. In the case of books, yeah they are just a safer bet. Since by default you always own them.

There have been a ton of physical copies that require connection to a server to validate or to become functional with a day 1 update.

Well as long as you aren't violating any of steam's TOS or companies that deletes inactive accounts (Ubisoft). I think subcriptions is fine. Your money won't be wasted if you play the cards right.

Agreed. I still buy CDs, Blu Ray and 4K movies/TV shows, and physical game discs. We do subscribe to a few streaming platforms (Netflix, Disney +/Hulu, Paramount +, etc.), but that's primarily for my wife. If it was just me I could do without all of them and happily stick with my physical media. I realize I may be one of the outliers in this regard, but the day gaming goes strictly subscription or strictly digital is the day I bow out and just stick with what I have.

Did you ever sign a publishing contract in your life? You will have no right to sell your game as a digital or physical copy. The future gaming platforms will make sure that they have exclusive rights to your game, otherwise your game will not be promoted by the platform

​@@googlekopfkind never seen that happening where you have zero choice like you described. There are some platforms exclusives sure, but I don't get in what situation your game project can't be sold in other formats? Only if that contract has that requirement/limitation, it is something you have to agree with. You can always reject or negotiate. Subscription might become more popular, but it will never be the only option.

​@@f11botyoh'Ohh

​@@googlekopfkindContracts are usually on non-exclusive rights to distribute digital copies and licenses, not copyright ownage.

@@f11bot The larger the publisher, the more likely it is that you can't avoid an exclusive contract. If in the future, all gamers only obtain their games through platforms, which is practically the case already, developers will become entirely dependent on getting their game on a platform. Of course, it's not in the interest of these platforms to continue granting developers selling rights especially when there is a subscribtion model. The publishers are already taking advantage of us, but the platforms truly have everything under control, and the big publishers have made deals with them. Anyone who believes that everything will turn out well is completely naive. The platforms are crushing us.

That and your access can't be revoked unless it's an online only game.

In today's day and age, video games are way to big to be printed on discs and will require you to be online and download the game which is sad to see

​@@Bigthebomb then stop making open world with all HD textures, make more linear titles even just make more 2D games

@wedoalittletrolling723 That's why we have indie titles

Hell no. I have enough storage for big games.

Yep

The only subscription I've done is temporary subscriptions to music streaming services. When I stumble across an artist I like, I'll go through their discography and find the stuff that is worth owning. I'll then go buy copies of their good material on vinyl or bluray-audio or FLAC/WAV, if a physical version doesn't exist.

@@WyvernsAreDragons Physical media does not consume very much space at all. It's also exponentially cheaper and more socially responsible. People purchase digital goods because they are unwilling/incapable of thinking through their purchases. Digital goods only provide value to people between the ages of 16-24. Everyone else that buys this stuff is more than likely making an objectively incorrect decision.

@@WyvernsAreDragons You are not constrained for space in such a way that would limit your ability to store physical media. You can throw out these absurdities all you want - it won't make it reality. You don't know what you are talking about. The people you reference are extreme examples that buy everything that gets released indiscriminately. It's laughable to suggest that that is representative of the format. And if the first place your mind goes to is... "I can't buy physical! There'd be too many movies to store!" then you have a bigger problem than getting over your refusal to think through your spending; it sounds like you're engagement with media is just generally unhealthy.

@@WyvernsAreDragons Whatever you say Pay Pig.

Imagine buying a story game only to then later collect dust in the library. I think gaming subscription is genius. Pay once to get access to a library of games. You really do get value for the dollar although you don't own it, it's still hard to sell 1 copy worth 60 dollars for a story game but it's easier to sell the same game for 1 month for 6 dollars, the value is same but the difference is I can experience it once and it doesn't collect dust. I always cancel subscription on every store because you never know if I want the same service next month. I think steam should consider doing this model for their store. I don't need to own the game to experience it, plus the money you save will be amazing. Not only that but you can control which month you want to play the game let's say you're busy in September then don't need to buy it then but let's say December is a holiday just pay 6 bucks and enjoy Christmas with all the games you ever want. It's genius to be honest.

I think what is an important thing to mention, the thing that most people don't realize, is that you don't even own games on Steam. Yes, you bought them for full price, but Steam is just a library for "your" games. If Steam suddenly stopped existing, you have no right to want your games back. I really recommend reading Steam's terms of conditions. In other words, the only way how you actually own your game is to buy the game physically.

@@garadosix25 ah yeah I commented to soon. Again, GOG remains equal compared to physical though. As long as you store the gamefiles on a backup, it can't be taken away as it's DRM free. So the backup would function as a gamedisc binder :)

@@iRywohere is my take on it. I disagree with the author of video from minute 13th. Vinyl is back because people want physical albums. He does not want it has not statistical meaning. Sure physical media will be pushed to a niche and will become collector items. Game preservation is important. Currently I’m a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber as I used the convertion from gold (meaning got it cheaper), I see the value in this service but when it will run out I will think multiple times before buying it for 17$ a month. I fully agree that DRM Free for PC (consoles are a different market and game preservation there might be more troublesome) is what should be praised. I have like 200 games and demos on GOG. I will speak loud and praise publisher/dev studio like Larian which had a big commercial success with game being on GOG day one with no drm (Baldurs Gate 3). I will even give Sony some credit for putting their games on GOG. People might hate Amazon due to more than 40 controversies but Prime Gaming being part of Prime subscription had something like 15 to 20 games for which they provide GOG keys, and all games I tried from the Amazon game app are drm free (I copied the installed game and run it on a different pc, with alternative client you do not even have to install their app). In the past two years there was a lot of classic games I missed and have not played (now safely backed up on my external hard drive) I used abandonware sites to play some games from early nineties I played as a kid (though this is a gray zone). Another point I do not agree with with subscriptions is that it is cheaper 17$ a month gives us 204$ a year. So this is either 3 big game releases a year or in case someone does not have FOMO this is ten older (but they still can be good) games where each costs 20$. The gaming industry in the last decade conditioned me not to trust it and buy games only on sales. I pay less and I have fun, so I do not see a problem. Not to mention that even if from today I was only left with what I have purchased (physically and digitally) I have more than a good few years of gaming (I would finally played some games which are just waiting to be played). Have a nice time gaming!

@@iRywo Don't forget that you can do the same with Steam games that ARE DRM FREE.

I hope GOG has a local payment I cant buy games locally

People in 2045: God, remember when you didn't have to pay to rent the stuff you get out of lootboxes?

@@fav843 People in 2045: "damn...remember when you were allowed to own and drive a e-bike, OR EVEN A REAL CAR? or when we didnt have to eat strawberry flavored cockroaches? damn, those were the days..."

@@faustinpippin9208 cockroaches, cockroaches are for the "wealthy". The masses are eating the recycled left overs of those dishes and stomach cancer causing millet, etc stuff that makes current day dumpster diving, something people will reminisce about being the good old days. Look into the food recycling - flour and beer, etc. Although, there's people out there paying a premium for female yeast beer now, so maybe a certain niche of beer drinkers clearly don't care. Assuming they don't just end up killing off the poor starving target audience with a massive salmonella or similar outbreak in their attempt to do something besides compost and energy. Right now your neighbors moldy, saliva'd scraps are what people are actually looking into. I learned about the green waste recycling directly from my local sanitation department, as they have rolled out new sorting rules. The government is already inserting themselves as a dumpster diving middleman, selling to the corps to test as free food to poor today and sell to the next rung up the poverty ladder, tomorrow.

Yup

Music & Movie subscription likes Spotify & Neftlix can be success & profitable because each music only 5 minutes & each movie only 2 hours, so you can hear & see many times per month. So you feel satisfaction per month. Meanwhile video game normally last 20 hour, 30 or even 50 hours of gameplay. How many can you play game per month ? Not satisfy pay per month

based and torrentpilled

BASED!

fucking based

and fitgirl plays Ovagames 👍

Wtf are you talking about?

that's stupid. Noone is restricting you from buying that game you enjoy after it's dropped from a subscription

​@@manbat4582 I'm sorry, so now I'm supposed to afford a subscription service alongside buying full price titles? It seems you didn't really watch the video you're commenting under sir.

Let's take MGS Collection volume 1 on Switch as an example: Only the MSX and NES games are on the cartridge. The day the servers stop, you lost 3 games with that cartridge alone... Every time a game ships with a bug and update or additional downloadable content (not talking DLC here), you either own an incomplete game, a broken game, or both. Wipe your systems (XBOX One, Xbox Series, PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch) and emulate the future by not plugging it to the internet. Now try to see how many games play from start to finish... Physical games died a decade ago, whether you like it or not. Unless a physical copy is cheaper than its digital counterpart, you have no reason to buy physical anymore. And "but if I want to sell it?!" isn't a good argument... Remember, your goal was to keep it to begin with... People buying physical games thinking that they are owning them or trying to preserve them really don't have a single clue about what's going on. The future of gaming for old games is emulation. It's roms/isos etc. I was a console modder for years, let me tell you a little fact: a third of all disc drive that are 25 years old are dead already. 25 years old discs are only working in appearance, they're actually rotting away. Game cartridges aren't immune either. A Carrington event would wipe them ALL in a single day unless they are kept in a Faraday cage. If you believe that you own some games because you have cartridges or discs of them, you're mistaken. For you to play those that are truly yours, you will need a console... The Switch is only a few years old, maybe their APU will start dying en masse soon and in 10 years from now, finding a Switch that works will be impossible. Stop wasting your money on cartridges with the assumption that they are any different. Just search "cartridge repair" here on youtube to realise that NES, SNES, MD etc cartridges are already dying...

Most games bigger than 32 gb aren't even on the micro SD cards. They give you a code like with the Batman Arkham collection. I highly doubt it unless it's indie games.

Meanwhile a online digital distribution platform known as GOG exists. They actually give a damn about everyone who's a gamer and puts us first and our right of ownership before everything else. They don't do anything DRM related and let you keep your games even when your Internet goes offline.

GoG is awesome! @@TheSilverShadow17

the cartridge has too much limitations. Maximum 32gigs? Most games these days are 100gigs+. I think cartridges are holding back Nintendo, hopefully they will start using discs again soon.

Thats why its cheaper to spend 260$ on a 18t hard drive.

They completely ignore people that cannot afford internet connection to download games digitally.

Cheaper if you play a lot of games not cheaper if you only play the same few games will be cheaper in the long run to just buy the,.

@@cosmicsvids A 18t drive is good for movies/videos/music as well.

yea thats true at first it looks like subscriptions are the cheaper option but as timme goes on it will become just as expensive as buying games is but hey we cant do shit about it and i dont really have any problem with the shift to subscriptions

Y u can kinda see it with epic games trying to bite down on steam hopefully steams to big for epic to get a foothold

I may be a novice as to what's going on but the term "arket distributur" sounds, well exactly how it sounds. Fraudulent.

That was mentioned in the video.

It depends on thre country you are in. In the EU, you do own your Steam games.

Physical is the best why would i want to subscribe if i only play a few games plus if i wanted to try a game why dont they make demos that use to be the go too

Steam/Valve will die with Gabin. Mark my words.

just to let ya know... yes you cant "own" them outside steam if ya know just what you are doing my 7 days to die, empyrion and space engineers skips steam because i know what im doing unlike these 20yr olds

The only subscription worth is humble choice.

I personally love the subscription model because it introduces me to a lot of games I never would have tried with a cheaper price. And then when I love a game, I buy it so that I own it. It's the best of both words. Game pass offers me discount for all games as well so it's cheaper too. I don't get the hate for subscription services as long as they are optional. You can still buy and own games if you want.

​@@soniccontinuum2612cheaper my ass you have that subscription for long enough you could have used the money wasted for a home

@@soniccontinuum2612 people don’t like subscription services because they fear the same thing that happened to movies and TV show will happened to gaming. The subscription service takes over and becomes the main way people consumes media, while the physical version slowly goes the way of the dodo, and new media are created exclusively for the service, so there’s truly no way to legally own it. And honestly, this is probably the direction gaming is going.

@@steveqi9309 You know how much money Xbox would lose if they lock games behind Gamepass only. Not to mention third party devs would be furious if they are forced to release their games in subscription services only. And they will release their games only on competitors. Also Xbox said they won't do that ever, I will be the first to criticize them if they changed their mind. And the backlash would be great from most people. I won't worry about a hypothetical scenario before it happens.

You can still play games even if they're removed from the store, but ofc the system shuts off it's gone, not that physically games will survive since they'll have to be online all the time to play

Steam can still launch in offline, so your downloaded games will always be there. It's different for the owned but not installed games.@@DanteCrowlley

@@DanteCrowlley i think he means legally you literally don't really own the game.. ie if Valve said "fuck off, plebs" Geralt of Rivia style then you'd have to forfeit ur right to play The Witcher despite having 'owned' it

spoiler alert i know how to by pass steam crap at the age of 50 so yes infact i do own what i bought and can play it even without steam and it dont even bother EAC we just know what we are doing unlike script kiddies

Realistically though Steam isn't going to go under in the next 20 years or ban your account for no reason so its not really a issue for most people. I love GOG but the games they offer is very limited compared to Steam sadly

F*ck corporate greed. The user is king

The same is true for everyone, it's just a matter of sitting down and asking yourself, "What media do I actually want on hand?" If you did ask yourself that question, then you buy physical media. If you didn't, then you might end up purchasing a subscription because you are 'getting such a good deal on a bunch of content' - that you were never going to touch or even lay eyes on anyway. I looked through the D+ catalogue and identified the stuff I would actually set aside time to watch. To purchase the blurays for everything I cared about on the service, it was equivalent to paying subscription fees for 2 years. So obviously I just bought the blurays which have a shelf life of around 80 years and are not reliant on a 3rd party provider to use. Subscription services ONLY offer value to young college students - those between the ages of 18-25 - who will pay for the service for a handful of years while their life is in flux and never touch it again after their life stabilizes. People younger or older than that should not be using these services.

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All of them came out broken and required a day one patch. Some of them even require an internet connection... In other words, as soon as the servers stop, these discs will not play. Also, disc drives and discs should be seen as AAA batteries, they have a quite short lifespan. Try to find a reliable PS1 and tell me how it went... That console is barely 30 years old... Buying discs only buys you the impression of owning something. Also, why would anyone buy a AAA game nowadays is beyond me...

​​@@SLRModShopELDEN ring? Armored core 6? Baldurs gate 3? Tears of the Kingdom? Triple AAA gaming is in a pathetic spot but there have been great AAA games this year

@@BillThePickle google each of these and add the words "patch notes" after the name of the game. You will see, in the future, you'll be better off playing with patched iso files than the actual games. Buy physical if you want, but it's pointless in terms of preservation. Every single game you mentioned has had patches, I just checked. As to your point that these are great games, 2 of them are Dark Souls clones, they are definitely good but not to everyone's taste. One has a bear and a human having sex... I mean... Every buyer should be on a FBi list of some kind if you ask me... Tears of the kingdom is basically Zelda Nuts and Bolts, which is fine by me as I'm a big fan of Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts but I thought that the gaming community had come to the conclusion that not doing this kind of changes to a well established franchise was a bad thing... Kind of double standard on that one... I think that a few million people owe an apology to Rare Software... :)

Xbox has made it clear that they don't want it to merely be an option.

Making it illegal to own a computer would be nearly unenforceable because RISC-V , Linux, and critical infrastructure based on computers exist. Sane leadership (even with modest corruption) would not see that in their best interests as they’d lose a lot of businesses or have revolts from other cash cows. If you have a totally insane leadership, then you’d either have a black market of RISC-V based phones being the worst kept secret in the country or so much oppression that it would be a revolution.

@@studiesinflux1304 , well, they've already tried to block encryption in UK, while telling excuses like "child safety"... people up in the sky are already out of their minds and that's the scariest part

@@studiesinflux1304 small correction and the gov will love it: (only private people can't own a real pc (only a thing that can do pc stuff but needs to be connected to the "central PC") they would absolutely love the control and ease of spying on everyone and blocking you from seeing content they dont want you to see i bet this will happen after all the people are forced into living in big dense cities in their 20m^2 flats so far all my conspiracy theories came true :(

That's so fucking stupid I can't even begin to explain how ridicolous the entire concept is.

What are you smoking? I want some

That's why i always buy my games there.

Except a lot of GOG games have DRM by now, Cyberpunk (and CDPR and GOG are under the same owners mind you), Cult of the Lamb and many more.

@@definitelynotacyborg Cyberpunk has no DRM... Every game on gog is drmless. WTF

@@dark_cobaltit really isn't, try running Cyberpunk without GOG Galaxy, you can't. Even the downloadable installer files are tied to accounts. It isn't the kind of DRM that Denuvo is but it is DRM nontheless and it is creeping more and more into GOG games. And what I mean tied into accounts, I originally got the GOG installers from my friend for Cyberpunk and while logged into my GOG account on GOG Galaxy it synced up with HIS SAVES. Also the game actually has a few documented crash states for times when you somehow manage to run it without Galaxy. I ended up buying it on GOG but it is a lie that it is DRM free. Most of their library is, but it is not all of them by far. The DRM freeness of old GOG made it exceptionally easy for pirates to just buy games, download the installer files, ask for a refund, upload it to sites and it would work no issues. Nowadays a lot of newer GOG titles have some form of less-invasive DRM enabled.

@@definitelynotacyborg this makes no sense. Their platform is named for their nom DRM policy.

Respect!

Same if I enjoy a game will happily buy it in hopes to support sequels or future games from that developer but if im forced to use a sub service they have lost me

@@Bargate Yeah, I've done that too with numerous games.

I really hate the new trend of anti-consumer practices masquerading as convenience, and everybody is falling for it.

​@@junfaatell me about it

Oh cry me a river. You know the difference between free to play and included with service. Stop whining and grow up.

Yeah more likely to turn into Idiocracy

And this is why we need time machines

Why is everyone talking like it's something that will happen in the future?! Physical died a decade ago with day one patches, patches, additional day one content (like Spyro, MGS etc)

@@SLRModShopthen why do they still make physical games?

To avoid backlash. To maintain the illusion (which is working GREAT!). To avoid people realising that they have no reason to therefore switch to Steam/GOG. My comment wasn't very elaborate, because I can't be arsed to repeat the same thing over and over again. Basically, here are some truth nuggets: Having a disc or a cartridge is no different from buying digital in probably 75% of cases. The only upside that I can think of is resale value. Which contradicts physical media enthusiasts' best argument: preservation. Feel free not to believe this but the current state of preservation of games globally is currently 0% (zero, no typo). I worked with consoles (retro and modern), none of it will survive 2050, maybe 2100 if we're extremely lucky. All those roms? Don't count on them. I could go into why but you'll think I'm just making science up on the spot to win a pointless internet argument. Instead, I'll point you in the direction of the "Carrington event". Look into that (the Carrington event), you'll see, it's an interesting thing to know in general. It'll make you realise that "gaming preservation" is the biggest lie this community has ever partaken in. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for physical and preservation. But my opinion on either won't change these facts: physical is an illusion, preservation is currently a lie. @@johnnyknadler1157

​@@johnnyknadler1157 they won't soon. They know there will be an outrage if they did it right now, so they are slowly doing it. PC pretty much already achieved it. Console are going step by step, like offering "digital only" alternatives for their consoles, and making game discs hold less and less of the actual game and putting the rest into an update. I give it 2-3 generations before disc copies are gone.

@@dumbyoshi That’s true, but they were saying physical died, not dying.

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As a phycical games myself. I just ordered HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST COMPLETE EDITION " Reprint disc ' All updates, patches, exstra content and The Burning Shores DLC included on the disc ' No day a patches just Playstation 5 offline plug and play " All for a cheaper price then when it launched " Patiance always reward " I would do this with Ubisoft upcaming AVATAR too if I ever would bay it. Personaly I hope gaming industri in the future would be" Launch digital version first then Launch phycical copy fully patched no need for day one patches ' Then later COMPLETE EDITION with all exstra content and DLC INCLUDED ON THE DISC like HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST COMPLETE EDITION.

What’s the difference though really?

@@JustmeIguess The difference is that I don't get charged when I am not playing. I would much rather pay 20$ once and play when I want than paying like 10$ a month even tho I play it twice a year. (That was exaggerated, but I think you get my point)

To each their own, I prefer subscription services because they offer me a way to play a lot of games that I wouldn't otherwise be interested in for a much cheaper price. Thats how I got introduced to Hollow Knight for example. This year alone, I got dead space remake, Lies of P, Forza, persona 5 tactical and like a dragon Gaiden. All of which are at least 60 dollars. And I can buy the ones I love if I want to in the future. As long as they are optional, I don't see the harm.

@@soniccontinuum2612 Lets hope they will stay optional

That's the spirit lol

I’m still calling this. They’re trying to kill off indie because they know they can’t stuff indie behind a paywall as well.

@@_alux_689 At the end of the day corporates will be corporates, and honestly from their perspective if they can leverage their presence in the game dev scene it's a gold mine for Unity. My worst fear is that indie development schedules will be pushed back for years because of engine migration.

but you could always play it. If they remove it from the store or if the company goes out of business you can't play the streaming game but you could play the disc game. 🤔

@@scott3805 If you buy a game on Steam you can continue to download and play it even if they take it off the store.

For starter, they should stop monopolyzing specific movies and series. If you want to watch X, you can only do it on service Z. That makes it frustrating. On the other hand, if you want to play a game, you have Steam, GOG, EpicFails, etc..

Exactly. Movies, music and TV Shows are static entertaiment " Games on the other hand you have a saying to what happend on the screen. There is nothing wrong with digital in itself but never replacement " No reason for digital and Phycical media to coexist. Its about opinions. Do not forget Microsoft orginal plans for xbox one backfired badly " At the end of the day its we the consumers who decide this " We speak with our wallet. Not Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo or any other coperations.

Me neither, if this continues folks are just going to resort back to physical media & old hardware. Though, with all of the doom & gloom there is a light shing through. It may not be Blockbuster, but I have hopesomething like that will return.🙂🙏😇

why is ur avatar literally a can of green beans?

Because beans

@@ghostyspaghetti5355 i love plant beans : )

@@GameBoyyearsago you enjoy the mass genocide of my kind?

Green beans are good

do you know maybe where I can do that safely?

That's nothing to be proud about. People work hard to make these games.

@@sudo3644 "nooo people work hard for these games!11??" My honest reaction :👉 ☠️(i couldn't find a pirates flags)

@@sudo3644 womp womp

@@sudo3644 doesn't look like someone worked hard on starfield

well since you mention it i should mention myself that i had a psychiatric breakdown + almost died cause i went too deep down that rabbit hole. still recovering. i saw things that i wish i could remove from my memory. my advice is to stay the fuck away.. not worth

​@Retrofire-47 The biggest reason why The Great Reset is going to happen is because most people are either ignorant or won't do anything about what the WEF wants, that's why it's important to tell as many people as possible instead of ignoring it all. In my eyes it's 100% worth it.

Neo feudalism and Communism, enforced by our overlords.

*cough* every current console

NO-ONE IS FORCING YOU TO SUPPORT THE CURRENT BUSINESS MODEL. YOU MUST INTERNALISE THIS OR IT WILL GET WORSE. The industry is only as bad as we allow them to be. Why do people feel that it is impossible to *not* give these greedy companies money? Video games aren't going to vanish forever if we all refuse to buy video games for 1 year. I feel like a mad man for point this out, but it really is that simple. If you don't like what's happening, then have you considered not supporting it? It's not "capitalisms" fault, *it is entirely your fault*. Video games are not a necessity, like oil or energy, they are a luxury.

@@user-og6hl6lv7p don't bother, he wants his BS "MS bad, Ninty/Sony good/less-bad" world view and no data will stop him. The comparison he uses doesnt even make sense - does MS produce discs for their first party games and have the disc just be a download thing? No, or at least not most of the time. Do many third party games pull that stuff on all platforms? Yes. Ergo - its an industry problem, but he describes its like a MS problem. Funny that. If you decide to have "good guys" and "bad guys" , you are part of the problem. Even GoG is not actually a good guy. But they, they want to hate their Ps and Switch purchase less or continue loving it like its a person, so whatever.

@@xBINARYGODx What did GoG do then?

​@@user-og6hl6lv7p I just got my Horizon forbidden west complete edition copy ' Reprint " All patches, updates, exstra content and DLC BURNING SHORES INCLUDED ON THE DISC " Without connected to the internet " Playstation 5 offline plug and play. All for a cheaper price " This is exactly what I'm would do with Ubisoft upcaming AVATAR GAME if I ever would bay it.

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Piracy is the best 😎👍

I never pirated a game in my life pirating games is bad for the players who bought the game they would be like "Why did I waste my my money I could have pirated this" if you pirate a indie game you are mf ahole

@@GameBoyyearsago you can play (some) AAA games you are on the fence about for FREE!11!!11

@@Vross_MKII Yeah, They Just Boost Thr Piracy : )

It's main benefit are short AAA games and indie games you would have never bought anyway. For big RPGs you should probably just buy them. Game pass licenses usually last a year so you got that long from the moment they are added to play and finish them, but there are a ton of games.

I hear this alot, but my 40 year old SEGA CD games are still fully functional, I rip them to my PC to test the data integrity every other year and they're all still 100%. Meanwhile the 3DS, Wii U, Wii, PSP, and next year Xbox 360, PS Vita and PS3 stores are losing their ENTIRE digital libraries for new purchasers. Not to mention, SSDs are physical, so digital content also requires physical media. As for preservation, physical version 1.0 copies will always contain version 1.0, digital versions force updates and that's that. Both physical and digital are better than subscription services though any day.

Yay subscription for games where ultimately you own nothing woo hoo that stuff is wack

I'm glad Valve is not a public company.

@@bigjoegamerI can see it going public once gaben passes

This is what happens when IQ drops and people accept bad business practices. Can you please tell me who is forcing you to buy video games at the moment? Will you lose your job if you don't buy the "next big thing"? Will your spouse beat you if you do not purchase the latest CoD? Will you suddenly acquire cancer if you do not spend $50 on weapon skins? Will your marriage breakdown if you fail to purchase the next Nintendo console? Will your dog get run over if you don't purchase the Last of Us 3? Will you mother be murdered in her sleep if don't buy a gamerpass?

​@@user-og6hl6lv7pplus there is a good catalog of retro/older games that can keep you preoccupied to prevent you for supporting new games and services with bad buisness practices.

@@user-og6hl6lv7p yes

And it’s less expensive

And they work like a charm. I have stocked up on gently used PS3 and XBOX 360 games. I have enough games to last me a lifetime, and I have an XBOX 1, but this is my last modern console.

You will be when the games are no longer hosted locally. When that happens, when it's all streaming, piracy of them will be nigh impossible

but isn't piracy illegal '-'

Most games now are shit anyway@@gierrah

@@z0w0z.yeah?

@@z0w0z. piracy is best : )

That will never happen. They would lose on so much money from people who only buy games and never subscribe to services. Gamepass and the like works because they get money from both audiences.

I just fear that Microsoft will change windows some day so that your files are not local. I hope it doesn’t come to that

​@@kyledodson2992then we will switch to Ubuntu

I do just that funnily enough some people called me pirate for that

​@@kyledodson2992they did try on win 11. I actually saw a guide on how to disable it but in the next windows perhaps that won't even be an option anymore

@@kyledodson2992 If Microsoft was Google or something that would be a valid worry.