this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2026
727 points (99.1% liked)
Technology
87833 readers
2380 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Can people just stop buying their fucking product now?
No. Console gamers can't do that.
Skill issue.
They can't complain about being a corporations bitch if they don't want to put in the legwork.
Console plebs are quite literally incapable of such thing. They want to play their game and they will let anybody walk all over them for that.
Console people are never going to quit if they haven’t already done so. Can’t expect much from people who willingly sign up to buy +$80 games that never go on sale, and which you never own and can never play without an internet connection, and are filled with micro transactions. The most insane have built an identity around a computer box that exploits them, and defend it vehemently against all the other fans whose only difference is being exploited by a different company playing on a very slightly different box. All to play slightly updated versions of the exact same IP of the same exact characters every few years to milk some more money from the suckers who eat it all up.
Don't forget they pay for multiplayer lol
Afaik that hasn't changed. Not for the better I mean...
They can switch to xbox
Honestly, not much better.
What?! Well, surely Nintendo is better then!
Also no.
Please tell me my ball-and-cup is safe?
... for now.
replacement strings are an additional cost.
And you don't own the ball
You licensed to use the ball with only qualified sellers of licensed string to keep the game fair.
Each cup sold separately.
Steam machine! $1050
Checkmate.
I actual kinda want one…
If you have money to spare, the form factor is kinda nice
Meh. My pc is already set up in the living room hooked up to the TV. I don't need an overpriced and underpowered computer. Actually, 90% of my gaming is on the Steam Deck these days. I am interested in the Frame, though.
steam machine*
You can plug a DVD drive into the Steam Machine and it works.
Tbh, after the power went out and I tried playing games on my steam deck only to find they wouldn't launch because... not even sure if it was DRM or because it's set up to need to download shit from the internet. And last week I brought my steam deck to play while my daughter had a thing going on and same shit, even though I remembered to put it in offline mode before leaving. And on a flight, I had installed a game specifically to play, but it needed to download more content or some shit and wouldn't run.
While I could probably avoid the annoyance with some sort of script or automation that just runs each of my installed games every so often on it so the DRM shit is refreshed, I am seeing that Steam is already in the bad place for digital rights. I intend to at least start a habit of checking gog for games before getting them from Steam and might start looking in to how to keep permanent access to my top games that I've bought and paid for, regardless of what Valve decides.
Also this renews my desire to skip any game with deneuvo, as that also requires an internet connection to validate.
It's just a repeat of one of my earlier pirating vs using a legit copy experiences. Took weeks to get into some software at work that the company paid good money for. Then, when I wanted to use it for a personal project, I had the pirated copy running the same day the download finished. DRM fucks legit customers more than pirates.
that's likely not steam's fault. were these issues with triple a games, and big studios?
the games that didn't work offline likely aren't available on gog
Hollow Knight (both orig and SS) and Gravity Circuit, though Gravity Circuit did end up working the 2nd time while both HK games failed to launch without error message. I see each of those games on gog.
while. i agree that steam isnt good its still the best digital store out there besides gog. also its hardware doesnt force u to buy games over there and thats a major selling point imo.
I've been doing the gog habit for years. It's definitely worth it. My gog library is actually bigger than my steam library now.
And if you log into gog with heroic launcher, you can also use proton to run games on Linux very easily. It's all point and click. There's no reason to use steam except for the fact that some games only release on steam, but somehow exclusives are fine when valve does it (according to many PC gamers).
Ah yes the """platform""" that Sony is copying from...
But that's the neat thing, you aren't locked into just steam as your only store. You can use other stores, I recommend GoG for downloadable, DRM free, offline installers
All of those companies are trying to fuck us over. Purchasing from any of them right now is expressing consent.
If you want things to change show some self control or go to piracy if you really can't.
The only company (with two exceptions) that I actually paid for games is GOG. Exactly because they don't include DRM and also provide offline version of their games.
I used to game a lot & had to quit due to the expense. But was a long-time PC gamer. (Gen X, started when I was 10 and we got our first PC.) It’s definitely possible to quit, but most won’t do so unless age or economic constraints force them to.
Speaking of economic constraints, we might soon see ourselves not being able to afford it. Not just because of the AI data centers but also geopolitical changes that are happening now.
If you own a PS5, depending on your firmware you may be able to exploit it, enjoy your favorite titles, all while giving Sony the middle finger.
https://gbatemp.net/threads/ps5-exploit-guide.613891/
I finally broke down and bought a second hand PS5 last summer. My gaming rig was showing its age and I wanted to play Clair Obscur with decent graphics. I had been saving for a bit because I also wanted to play Spooder-Man 2 and Astro.
I made sure to buy the drive separately so that I could also play what limited Blu-rays I own.
Now I'm pissed they got my money for the games and drive add-on.
What's with the "so I can play movies I own" bit? I replaced blu-rays with movies because I tried to play a DVD in the ps5 and had to switch over to the PS3 because it just wouldn't play on the PS5. And when I tried to search about it, the results were all fucking useless talking about region locks and shit when all of the items involved were purchased in the same region.
Anyways, the question I'm asking is if you can point me to more information about how the PS5 handles (or doesn't) movies, the rest of this comment devolved into a rant.
Part of the reasoning when I bought mine was that I wasn't sure how much longer I could rely on my PS3 to be my bluray player, so this is extra fucking annoying. I do have an external writer that I use with my PC though haven't tried playing anything through that or hooking it up to my PS5, is that a valid workaround or does it have to be a sony external drive, or even a PS5 specific one?
Bonus PS5 shittiness: I bought a 3rd party guitar controller because I wasn't sure if my inability to play as well as I used to was me, the system (on my ps3), or the controller I was using. Seems to have been all of the above, aa my skills aren't at their peak anymore but I've been able to do much better after getting that new controller (and fixing it up because it sucked out of the box, eg the strummer would stick because the piece of plastic was too thick for the housing... So many fucking garbage products these days). Anyways, when I was at the "system" part of the equation, I decided to buy rock band 4 for the PS4 and just take my PS3 out of the equation entirely. And yeah, it runs great, but for some reason the PS5 (and only the PS5, PS3 and PC are fine with this) will lose the connection not between the dongle and the guitar, but between the dongle and PS5. The lights show the dongle sees it but it won't work as a controller again until I unplug and replug the dongle. Wtf. Can't tell if it's a bug, Sony not playing nice with a 3rd party peripheral, or the shitty controller not quite following USB spec though in a way that the older implementations can handle but the PS5 can't.
Also it will pair with my bone conducting headphones but refuses to treat them as an audio device. And I'm considering opening up the controllers I have to take the mics out because I don't trust them (and wouldn't want an open omnidirectional mic anyways even if I was playing multiplayer team games, which would suck because everyone else is using an open omnidirectional mic).
But then I might have to wait a year tomplay GTA 6 on PC........
/s
As if it wont get leaked.
Also, fuck Rockstar too. I hope it flops.
They just announced the release date of the last overpriced part of the ff7 trilogy so people already forgot about it and will buy.
Next project will likely be a new ff9 trilogy or something. Need to keep milking the gamers!
Absolutely insane that they split one game into three parts and people don't see it for what it is.
As a person who still keeps FF7 on a mental pedestal and for ages all I wanted was a remake...
I'm not playing it, I'm not buying it.
It's a cash grab and I won't support it even if it pains me.
Glad to know there's some like you. Easier for me who doesn't have that much attachment to it but I would still not buy even if I did have attachment to it.
I'm way more attached to sonic and do criticize all the modern sonic crap.
Especially Frontiers, there's only 2 things sonic in that game: the name and the texture of the playable character. Other than that, it's NOT a Sonic game by any stretch of the imagination.
Even if it resembled sonic, why the hell did they want to make it as an open world? Don't they know their strengths? What's next, open world tetris?
Just don't touch the good stuff and use your brains and millions of dollars to come up with something original, good, and not just a cash grab, will you, AAA studios? In the meantime, indies and retro ftw.
I'm on board, as much as I'll miss God of war, I'm not paying them a dime more