“Nobody wants to work anymore.”
Wrong.
People just do not want to:
- Work 60 hours and still be broke
- Miss their kids growing up
- Get raises smaller than inflation
- Save in a currency printed out of thin air
- Answer emails on weekends
- Get replaced the second margins get tight
- Spend half their paycheck on rent
- Need debt just to survive
- Watch groceries, insurance, and housing go up faster than their income
People do not hate work.
They hate giving everything and getting nowhere.
Hideo Kojima comments on the end of physical game production today in Italy:
"Today you can still download data. But at one point games will make into streaming services like Amazon or Netflix and companies will decide if you can play a game or not [...] At this point I won't have anything of my own [...] the data will be somewhere in a company and I will have the right to access it or not depending on how much this data tap is opened.
The fact that the initial data is not in my possession but is somewhere held by a private company means that I will always have that risk that for any reason, whether commercial or political, the company could prevent access to that data and therefore I will no longer be able to see that film, I will no longer be able to play that game.
This is what's happening next for the world of video games and I fear it will also happen for cinema."
Gonna be GREAT in a few years when a game gets removed from the digital store for whatever reason and then that game is lost in time forever.
Deadpool, Ultimate Alliance 1 &2, Spider-man Shattered Dimensions.. none of them available digitally. If there were no discs, they would be impossible to play ever again.
That’s the future we are headed towards. Remember that.
Rockstar/Take-Two Interactive is complicit, by the way
They announced abandoning real physical media first with GTA 6—just a box with a download code. They knew exactly what they were doing. They are complicit
They're both in the club, and we ain't 👍 They're trying to distance GTA 6 from something they themselves are pushing
GTA 6 is objectively the most anticipated game in gaming history, and it ABSOLUTELY sets the precedent for others. They're using it to normalize this behavior.
100% complicit 💯
Never forgive them for what they took from us
Cheat codes
Game manuals
Demo discs
Couch co-op being normal
Split-screen multiplayer
Complete games at launch
No day-one patches
Unlockable characters
Secret costumes
Bonus modes
Physical collections
Cool disc art
Simple console dashboards
No account logins
No battle passes
No daily quests
No always-online single-player games
Weird experimental games
Mid-budget games
Licensed games with personality
Buying random games based on the cover
Gaming magazines
Game rentals
Main menus with soul
The feeling of actually owning your games
The excitement of a new console generation
@RinoTheBouncer "Higher quality outputs" brother have you seen AI art and Videos? You'd have artists pulling out their hair trying to fix all the flaws AI does. And I dont even want to think about the bugs in the game code because AI isnt fucking ready for it yet.
Just to show you how scummy Sony is being with this news.
They anticipated their numbers would drop through people protesting/boycotting by canceling Ps Plus and pre-orders but they won't have to show their numbers to investors until the end of September.
Their next earnings call is July 31st however it only covers up to June 30th. They planned this out perfectly to drop it on July 1st for this very reason. The numbers dip early July, they have over 2 months to watch them HOPEFULLY recover as the deperate gamers crawl back and the investors see that Sony moving away from physical games didn't hurt anything.
Keep this is mind as we move forward. Sony is betting on you caving and crawling back to them in the coming weeks. Oh and so are the investors.