Post #3572548

2026-06-26 12:52 UTC

especially when there exists several alternatives to obtain games on PC. Not really sure what you mean here. Do you have a disk drive installed on your PC? If so how old is your case? Or when was the last time you had a car with a cd player in it? Or are you talking about any other store front like epic or battle.net? Because they’re all in competition with one another. Physical discs matter more on consoles than on PCs, given that there is not a whole lot one can do if their account gets banned for the silliest of reasons, or if one wants to share a game. This is categorically and objectively not true. Bans on consoles are few and far between and many times they actually brick the console itself. You’re not sharing games. No one is sharing games. The extreme vast majority of games are digital downloads. You’re not passing around your cartridge of super smash bros 64 between school mates in 2026. Also, have you thought that you might be referring to two different sets of customers No. Why would I do that? I don’t care. I own a PS4, a Steam Deck, and a gaming PC. They’re all fundamentally the same customer experience built on similar architecture. This is just a ridiculous argument. In fact, I feel like, deep down, you generally agree with my original comment but didn’t want to say so for fear of being ostracized by the community in this thread. It feels like you picked the most ridiculous, indefensible arguments against what I was saying and just ran with them.

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@AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 2026-06-26 15:17

You are arguing against points I did not make. Do not confuse consumer preference with consumer rights. The fact that most people buy digitally does not magically eliminate the benefits of physical media: resale, lending, collecting, and not tying every purchase to a single account or storefront. That is especially relevant on consoles, where you don’t have the competitive marketplace that exists on PC. Comparing Steam to PlayStation as though they are equivalent ecosystems ignores the very thing being discussed. You went from making weak arguments to inventing facts. “No one is sharing games” goes against the used games market as well as game lending. As earlier, your point about Gran Turismo is just an anecdote dressed up as a general principle. And your last paragraph is a joke. If you have to speculate and invent my position instead of addressing it, that is a sign your rebuttal is weak, just like your original comment.

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