Yeah, and owning one console or PC significantly lowers the value of getting another console. Making those hundreds even more of a luxurious throwaway. I can't justify spending hundreds of bucks for the 3 PS4 exclusives I'm interested in. 1 of those 3 is on PSNow, so knock it down to 2.
well there's way more then 4 PS exclusives i'm interested in so I have zero regrets for buying my PS4.
I find it both hilarious and annoying that some of the same people who were critical of Microsoft on these issues in 2013 are willing to give google a free pass when it comes to game ownership.
I think we know the real truth behind that-those people weren't REALLY concerned, they were just Sony fanboys looking for any excuse to hate on MS. If Sony had done a similar service(which they were in fact planning on doing before they saw the backlash to MS's announcement)you bet your ass fanboys would've been licking Sony's feet as opposed to criticizing them.
Not anti-Sony BTW before anyone accuses me of that, Days Gone is easily in my top 10 games of this year, but I do get oh so tired of Sony ponies that just look for excuses to hate on MS no matter what.
I have almost no concerns about all these new services. Don't feel the need to own games anyway, which we actually never did to begin with. Games preservation might be a problem in the future which companies should find a solution to but apart from that I am good to go.
Wrong we did in fact used to own games, not sure how you can argue otherwise.
GaaS, Subs within subs, Streaming, Cloud gaming, .... If it wasn't for VR i wouldn't even still be gaming so you can keep all that other bollox.
We even somehow survived the online pass shite from last gen and Xbox One's failed DRM this gen.
I do still have that PT demo though.
I never got into VR myself, too high-priced for me to justify it and none of the games look very interesting. Say what you will about the Kinect, but games like Heavy Armor and Rise of Nightmares are full fledged games and feel like it, crap like The Inpatient looks barely any better then the dime-a-dozen horror games released on Steam every single day.
Plus with VR if you are playing on PC you also do need a top-of-the-line gaming rig to run it properly, and only the 1% can really afford it, so VR is never going to become a mainstream success, at least not in terms of gaming.
But even the games that we "own" now aren't actually ours. We just have a license to play them. We pay for that license. The way things are progressing, it's about convenience. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV etc movies have moved into this stage. There was backlash for that. We got over it. Games are moving into this stage, there's backlash now but we'll get over that too eventually. Streaming will become the norm once ISPs realize this is the norm for all media across the board and we'll have the infrastructure for better speeds and no data caps too, eventually.
A lot of people aren't comfortable with streaming games and not "owning" them and that's fine but we'll get over that too once it becomes the norm on top of being able to purchase games physically.
Personally, I don't have a problem with Stadia, Xcloud and whatever other streaming services come. Streaming is an alternative, it's not the standard and more people need to understand that.
Publishers WANT streaming to be the standard though and they'll do everything they can to force people into using them(wouldn't be surprised if they started putting content behind the paywall of their streaming service, we already saw games like Kingdoms of Amalur put single-player content behind online-passes, so it's not at all stretch to assume we'll see something like that again). It's not "convenience" at all if you can't play a game because of bad internet, it's the opposite actually.
Yes a game I own a physical copy of is 100% mine, it's not just me saying that, it's countries like the UK with laws like the "Sale of Physical Goods Act" which says you own thing you pay for.
You sure sound like you work for Google.
I doubt people will "get over" it when they literally can't use the service because of poor internet(which isn't going to change anytime soon in the U.S. thanks to companies having virtual monopolies across certain areas in the U.S.)
You actually think ISPs give a shit about you? LOL they really don't.
Dude you are literally making stuff up. EA, Sony and Xbox are all lying about their numbers? This isn't the Stadia streaming...it doesn't take much more bandwidth than Netflix movies. And no one said that Game of Thrones was not pirated...the finale was still one of the watched HBO programs of all time mainly due to HBO subscriptions. Overall piracy has fallen, and has actually proven that piracy doesn't affect entertainment income.
You are trying to bully people into your opinion with nothing but blind hatred to support it. Every major media company is lying about the growth in revenue that they receive from streaming? I'm sorry but this is just an entertainment product that people will consume and "throw away"...people aren't making a $15 purchase with the same seriousness as they choose health insurance.
People have a different value for what $15 means to them.
You can choose to not use any of these services, but don't make up that they aren't growing, aren't already successful and that people don't want them. You are using alot of "corporations are evil" speak to say that literally anything they do will always be the worst thing for everyone, just because you think so.
And again, you have zero evidence that companies are saying "hey let's make a subscription service and not make that game available as a one-off purchase".
Nah you're the one making crap up here, you have zero evidence that companies actually give a shit about pleasing consumers. You sure sound an awful lot like a PR rep for these companies the way you are shilling them.
Uh companies lie all the time, are you seriously not grasping that? Ubisoft lies all the time, about their games not being political about their DRM for PC games actually working and stopping piracy, etc.
You really do just blindly believe everything corporations tell you don't you? I'm guessing you also believe Amazon treats their workers well right?
You're the one trying to "bully" people here into swallowing this nonsense about how streaming services are a better deal, no they aren't, that's not an opinion that's a fact. You want to bully anyone who does not blindly agree with every single thing you say.
You're the one with "blind hatred" here towards anyone that does not blindly asskiss corporations. Like Jim i'm highly skeptical for this for very good reasons, the games industry is so shitty it's a safe bet to assume this will be shit.