Games have changed.
It’s no longer about discs, shelves, or ownership. It’s an endless series of licenses, served by storefronts and servers.
Games—and their consumption of collections—have become a well-oiled machine.
Games have changed.
Account-tagged players carry account-tagged keys, use account-tagged downloads. Always-online checks inside the client enhance and regulate access.
License control, store control, patch control, catalog control… everything is monitored and kept under control.
Games… have changed.
The age of ownership has become the age of access, all in the name of averting catastrophe from used copies and piracy, and he who controls the storefront, controls the library.
Games… have changed.
When the catalog is under total control, games become licenses.
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It's 2029
You just bought a PS6
It cost 1200 dollars
All games are digital
They each cost 80 dollars
You have 4 in your library
Yesterday it was 5 but Sony removed one
They offered no refund, its just gone
You'd strangle yourself with the controller cord but its wireless