Sony Wins "Hall of Shame" Award for Killing Discs and Being All Around Awful

biglyburrito

Gamers have remained blissfully & willfully ignorant when weighing the value of their purchases for literally decades. They'll happily buy a digital copy of a game that confers no ownership rights, to save $10 on a physical copy that you can play so long as you own hardware that supports it. They'll happily spent $60 on the next FIFA game that comes out a year after the previous one, for marginal benefit. They'll happily pay top dollar every time a company peddles the same game mechanics in marginally different skin (looking at you, Ubisoft & Bethesda). I don't really blame Sony -- they're doing what all corporations do, which is apply the leverage they possess to make as much profit as they can. I blame the individuals who have chosen to support them over the years & and are now blubbering about it. Without gamers dumbly supporting their anti-consumer practices, Sony & other game corporations wouldn't have been able to accumulate this leverage in the first place. The proverb " a fool and their money are soon parted " seems apt here.

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Yet gamers celebrate Valve for having done the same.