informative thread i made for instagram but i thought i'd share it here too
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Simple way of stopping this is Stop pre ordering digital games.
Stop even buying them on release day wait for sales. The only thing they understand is money its that easy
Without physical games:
- Midnight launches are dead
- Collectors Editions lose half of their value
- You can’t share, trade, or sell your games
- You can’t buy used games
- If there’s a server outage, you’re shit out of luck
- YOU OWN NOTHING
On the same day Sony told a billion gamers to embrace digital forever, it quietly showed them the catch.
Two announcements, one blog, an hour apart.
First: from January 2028, no new PlayStation game will ship on a disc, digital only.
Second, buried below: Sony is closing the online stores for the PlayStation 3 and Vita, so you will no longer be able to buy games there at all.
Read together, they are not two stories. They are the whole argument about what you actually own.
A disc is the last thing in your home a Silicon Valley company cannot reach. A PlayStation game from 1994 still works today, and the law lets you resell it, lend it, keep it forever.
That is ownership. It is protected by something called the first-sale doctrine, and it applies to physical objects. It does not apply to digital purchases. That is not Sony being cruel. That is the quiet legal truth underneath the whole shift.
Sony's own spokesperson said it plainly today. With all digital content, you are not buying the game. You are buying a personal license for non-commercial use. Not the thing. Permission to use the thing, which depends on the company's servers and goodwill. They once pulled a game called Concord two weeks after launch. Buyers got refunds, but the game itself simply vanished.
This was never really about discs versus downloads. It is about moving the largest entertainment medium on Earth from a world where you own an object the law protects, to one where you hold access the law treats as rented.
Convenient, cheaper, and easier for almost everyone. Also revocable in a way a disc never was.
The click of a disc into a console was ownership. The download is permission. Sony just showed you, in a single morning, how differently the two age.
Do you agree with what Sony did??
Notice when you want an abortion the fetus is a person but when we talk about immigration, actual children are called offspring.
Words matter. They are saying the Nazi shit out loud. Listen to them.
Internet down? Fuck you
Server issues? Fuck you
Finished a game and want to sell or trade it in? Fuck you
You will own nothing
We will keep raising game prices
We will raise PS Plus prices
PlayStation - Play Has Limits, and fuck you.
Thank you for ruining the video game industry for us, and all the passion that we had🚀
It isn’t the economy
It isn’t BiG b0oBs or shaved hair
It isn’t “entitled gamers”
It is your own greed that will be your own undoing, and you will have zero sympathies from us over it.
Maybe the industry does indeed need new big players, because clearly you have zero respect for this craft or the players who made you🎤
PlayStation is ending production of physical game discs for all new games, starting January 2028.
From that date, new games will be available in digital formats only.
🚨 Trump has announced he will not be supporting the bipartisan housing bill.
He clarified: "I don't want to bring housing prices down. I want to bring housing prices up."
Gone too soon at only 34 😢
Rest in peace, Luis de la Rosa Obregón. The animator and illustrator, whose credits included Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, My Little Pony: The Movie, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Animaniacs, and Carmen Sandiego, has passed away after a tragic train accident in Annecy, France while attending the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
His work helped shape some of the most recognizable animated projects of the last decade, and he was reportedly at Annecy presenting his original project Ash Raider World — a reminder that his creative journey was still moving forward.
A heartbreaking loss for the animation community and everyone who connected with the worlds he helped bring to life. Rest in peace, Luis 🕊️