I buy the games I wanna play because Steam makes the process hassle free on Linux and I’m old so I don’t feel like tinkering most days but PSN isn’t available here so there is no other way to play but piracy to play these games.
Didn’t Microsoft do this with the Microsoft Live service? After so many years, they stopped supporting the service and the games are pretty much useless.
Sony, the friendly publisher who is making PC gaming friends every day with their “required PSN” addition to already released games (and new ones to be published) thinks these same PC gaming folks will buy a console to play PS exclusive sequels…
Why do they think that someone who hasn’t bought a console already for games like Bloodbourne, God of War, Uncharted, Spiderman, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon: Zero Dawn, etc. would buy one for a sequel of any of them??
I was going to buy a PS5, then I figured I’d wait for the pro refresh model, then I figured I’d rather spend the money on nice headphones. Longer I go without the more the urge just… goes away.
I didn’t even buy games from Big studios when they launch - I usually like to wait a year. That’s plenty of time for them to patch all the (unintended) stupid out of it, since nobody knows how to release a finished game anymore. I tend to be more forgiving with indie games, but will never again buy early access something that doesn’t have a concise roadmap, have regular updates, and communicates regularly. I’ve been burned by too much vaporware and “lol we’re done even if the game sucks” bullshit we see too often. And it’s not like we have a reason to be loyal to any brand in the 21st century. They’re not our friends.
Part of me wishes that Valve would simply tell these publishers that require 3rd party launchers and accounts to run their games to fuck off their platform; at the very least they warn about it on the store page I suppose. It’s not like Steam is any less of a DRM platform after all (though you can access the API to download games on unsupported platforms like OpenBSD).
Idk about other people but I don’t have the money, and can’t justify buying a console in addition to a PC. If I had that extra money, I’d upgrade my computer. That and I don’t like AAA games and I’m already invested in Steam and GOG libraries.
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