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@PlayStation Longest gap between posts. Biggest gaming announcement in decades. No response, no acknowledgement, no corporate spiel.

Radio silence.

And then - a fight stick....

The audacity to announce a physical product after declaring the end of physical games.

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@blurrybonez @popsbabyiv @waynocunt @TheTrueSealYT @dlozanovic @PlayStation The SC proposal will remove purchased movies from your library. That is unethical.
The "choice" by Sony was to agree a licensing model such that customer purchases can be revoked when that license between SC ends.

Gog "licenses" allow you to retain access, regardless.

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@blurrybonez @popsbabyiv @waynocunt @TheTrueSealYT @dlozanovic @PlayStation Let me clarify, as I evidently mistyped.
Other providers have shown a licensing model that permits customers to download the digital assets and access them in perpetuity.
I'll go to gog: you download the game files, delete gog, you keep playing. Sony's choice: not do that.

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@blurrybonez @popsbabyiv @waynocunt @TheTrueSealYT @dlozanovic @PlayStation It was their choice to entertain a license-based model for digital sales. Those movies were affected by a clause in an agreement signed by them.

Take https://t.co/13wiYbegP6 as an example: buy a game, you have the files. That's it. Gog made publishers agree to that when listing.

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@Canadian_South @StopKilingGames @PlayStation Gog...
Buy the game, download the game, delete gog, turn off internet, you can play that game - and share it with friends forever.

You own it.

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@popsbabyiv @waynocunt @blurrybonez @TheTrueSealYT @dlozanovic @PlayStation You're aware that Sony just removed 500 studio canal movies from libraries of paying customers?

They absolutely can choose to remove it from your library, and have demonstrably done so.

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@PulseAttacks @AncientArgonaut @digitalfoundry Calm down.

They go where the profits are. There's a difference between consumer led choices and investor led.

This will make them money: more digital revenue, much greater cut of sales (no secondary markets), likely higher dlc purchases.

That's it.

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@elonmusk @xai I feel an obligation under my name sake to endorse this.

An incredible idea.

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So that's $30 per month...

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Have you seen this in the wild? What pricing trends are you noticing?

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