I once lost a game from my ps library, just vanished. I still had the saves in my hard drive. So I called PlayStation who said it could have been a network glitch from the update, but since they lost any record of the purchase and I had made it years earlier, so I deleted the email, I never got my game back. That’s why I despise digital Games. Sony can’t walk in my house and take my physical game, but you break a rule or there’s a glitch and suddenly Sony can steal back every game you bought
most email storage these days is so ridiculously huge, there’s no reason to delete those emails. make a folder for them (Playstation receipts, Steam receipts, etc).
that said, physical media is on it’s way out. i’d be surprised if the next gen of systems is even offered with a disc drive. at this point, most games are way more data than a Blu-Ray can hold.
Physical media really doesn’t help, because many games are delivered with bad bugs. These are fixed by updates. Unless you can actually download and archive the updates, reinstalling a deleted/corrupted game from backup media alone is impossible.
What is needed is a consumer bill of rights that requires companies to provide the purchased game with the latest update to the buyer upon request should they abandon it. If the game requires a server, that software code should be made public domain. An abandoned online game’s copyright should also be voided. That would allow the gaming community to legally provide updates and servers for continued use.
Another problem with physical media is games are quickly becoming, and often already are, bigger than a disc can hold. Even a dual layer UHD-Blu-ray is “only” 100gb.
At this rate next gen consoles are gonna have to follow Nintendo and go back to cartridges if they wanna keep physical media an option. Not that I’m opposed to that.
Boot licking victim blaming at its finest. What about Sony’s responsibility not to steal your shit? Responsibility for the consumer, never the corporation.
I once lost a game from my ps library, just vanished. I still had the saves in my hard drive. So I called PlayStation who said it could have been a network glitch from the update, but since they lost any record of the purchase and I had made it years earlier, so I deleted the email, I never got my game back. That’s why I despise digital Games. Sony can’t walk in my house and take my physical game, but you break a rule or there’s a glitch and suddenly Sony can steal back every game you bought
protip: don’t delete receipts.
most email storage these days is so ridiculously huge, there’s no reason to delete those emails. make a folder for them (Playstation receipts, Steam receipts, etc).
that said, physical media is on it’s way out. i’d be surprised if the next gen of systems is even offered with a disc drive. at this point, most games are way more data than a Blu-Ray can hold.
Physical media really doesn’t help, because many games are delivered with bad bugs. These are fixed by updates. Unless you can actually download and archive the updates, reinstalling a deleted/corrupted game from backup media alone is impossible.
What is needed is a consumer bill of rights that requires companies to provide the purchased game with the latest update to the buyer upon request should they abandon it. If the game requires a server, that software code should be made public domain. An abandoned online game’s copyright should also be voided. That would allow the gaming community to legally provide updates and servers for continued use.
Another problem with physical media is games are quickly becoming, and often already are, bigger than a disc can hold. Even a dual layer UHD-Blu-ray is “only” 100gb.
At this rate next gen consoles are gonna have to follow Nintendo and go back to cartridges if they wanna keep physical media an option. Not that I’m opposed to that.
Boot licking victim blaming at its finest. What about Sony’s responsibility not to steal your shit? Responsibility for the consumer, never the corporation.
Nowhere did they victim blame, they just gave a tip
No idea where you got that from…
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