This could be more about the loss of the FIFA license than anything.
Physical gamers don't own their games either.RIP owning your games
For sure.Yep. But they probably could have given a heads up.
depends on what games. Online gams that have physical disc, for sure no, but a physical game where all the game on discs, yes. It gets rarer though, since many games come incomplete on disc.Physical gamers don't own their games either.
When the game is physical, you only own the piece of plastic that the game is on. You bought a license to use the game that is on the disc.depends on what games. Online gams that have physical disc, for sure no, but a physical game where all the game on discs, yes.
What!!!When the game is physical, you only own the piece of plastic that the game is on. You bought a license to use the game that is on the disc.
If you actually owned the game, you would be able to legally copy and redistribute the game, and profit from it.
With a game or movie, you own a license to use their product.What!!!
You are conflicting Owning something , and owning the IP right
You buy a Book, you cannot copy the book and distribute as well, same with a car, an artwork print etc ….. but that doesn’t mean you don’t own the book, print or car.
Owning a physical disc in the modern day era is no more than owning the installation file, which may or may not be useless depending on if it has to connect to the internet for authentication/activation.
When you buy physical, you own a copy of the game on disc and the license to use it, the box cover it comes with and your own decision to re-sell whenever or keep forever. It would be great if they can just stop the always online and having to connect to check licenses.
While that's generally true currently, anything could change in a license agreement. In theory, there's nothing to prevent a company from putting a "non-transfer" clause in the EULA. They probably wouldn't, because the outrage would be massive for such a small % of gamers now anyway. There's nothing stopping them from putting just about anything in that wall of text which nobody ever bothers to read when installing a new game.
There's also a few things that poke holes in "owning" the game:
-Day 1 patches. You may "own" a beta/early release build. So many games have sizeable day 1 patches.
-So many games barely function offline. Try playing an old EA Sports game. It will "work", but you'll often be sitting at a loading screen as the game spends minutes trying to find servers that are long gone. Last time all of EA's services went down, most of their games became basically unplayable even offline. There are very few truly offline games out there anymore. Ubisoft games are the same way. Their servers go down, and be ready to wait several minutes just to get into a game. It may "function" but barely.
So you’re saying the og xbox one method of buying and reselling games that outraged gamers was just them ahead of the time, they couldn’t take it bluntly so they had to ease them in over time, only now they can’t resell itReminds me of a Bombcast discussion with them saying publishers wanted the Stream model on consoles but can't because of retail. Bit by bit they have been trying to remove that problem.
So you’re saying the og xbox one method of buying and reselling games that outraged gamers was just them ahead of the time, they couldn’t take it bluntly so they had to ease them in over time, only now they can’t resell it
If we're being honest, I blame Steam for alot of this. They successfully transitioned the PC market to digital only years ago while keeping prices constant. The console makers and big publishers had to see this and want a piece of the pie. And to be fair consumers, have in droves, voted with wallets and overwhelmingly supported digital over physical for the last few years.
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The last time I went into a Gamestop was to buy a replacement joycon for my son's Switch. They automatically included the insurance and I had to stop them as they were ringing it up so they didn't. They're garbage.I am happy to never have to set foot inside a Best Buy or a Gamestop again. I don't know how it is all over, but our Best Buy is basically an empty store. There's barely anything on the shelves. I half expect a zombie to come flying out at me. It is empty and depressing. I can mess with some store that could mess up my preorder, or I can just hit play when the game launches.
I also don't think you can blame Steam on game prices. Steam still has some of the best sales in the business. I bought Bioshock 2 Remastered for $5. I paid more for lunch. PC gaming never had much of a used game market anyway. Digital sales on consoles used to be very good. Now they are terrible. I don't think you can blame digital though, more the simple added cost of making games. It is really only the last couple of years where what used to be big holiday sales started being really bad.
The last time I went into a Gamestop was to buy a replacement joycon for my son's Switch. They automatically included the insurance and I had to stop them as they were ringing it up so they didn't. They're garbage.
When the game is physical, you only own the piece of plastic that the game is on. You bought a license to use the game that is on the disc.
If you actually owned the game, you would be able to legally copy and redistribute the game, and profit from it.
The last time I went into a Gamestop was to buy a replacement joycon for my son's Switch. They automatically included the insurance and I had to stop them as they were ringing it up so they didn't. They're garbage.
I said this in the other thread but if the big US retailers like Bestbuy, Walmart and Amazon give up physical media when it comes to gaming, I might be done with console gaming. Or at the very least pushed out of it to exclusively gaming on PC. While PC gaming hardware is getting more and more elitist ( due to lack of competition/whole nother issue) with Sony, MS and most publishers releasing their games there and having multiple sales, its easily the best place for me to play most of the time. If Nintendo ever jumps on the PC train that transition will occur alot faster.