PlayStation announced that they will stop making discs. People are rightfully mad about this, but it's not actually about physical media. It's about owning your games.

I made a new blog post giving my thoughts on PlayStation not making disks anymore, and the arguments around it.

I personally don’t think most people care about physically owning media (and some people even suggested PC should start going back to physical). It’s more about digitally owning your games.

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Very easily, in fact! Steam doesn’t apply a hard DRM for games on their platform, you can bypass it and play your games offline without the launcher if you know what you’re doing.

    This isn’t a good point, how many people do you think remove the steam dependency from their games?

    • warm@kbin.earth
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      5 days ago

      Steam also doesnt force DRM, it’s developers/publishers deciding to use it in the first place.

      You’d only need Steam DRM for your game if you want to use any features like Steam multiplayer, workshop etc.

      So while it’s easy to bypass, most games dont even need it in the first place.