We are watching the collapse of gaming and utter disrespect of players and the craft in real time, and we’re being gaslit to think it isn’t happening or that it’s somehow a good thing🚀
🗣️Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick argues that physical game discs make no sense for consumers
🗣️He also predicts that game streaming will be more commercial/mainstream in about 3 years due to the increasing prices of consoles and PC (Did he forget Stadia???)
So hear me out:
✅PCs and consoles became more expensive due to data centers
✅Now they want you to rent out data centers instead of the hardware that data centers caused to be overpriced
The same way they push physical games away:
❌We had was a box with a disc, a manual, a map and maybe another game’s demo
❌Then they took the items, then the map
❌And then they started making the game on disc require download or always being connected even for some single player games
❌Then they started counting DLC, MTX, free-to-play and digital only to inflate digital sales statistics and make it seem like physical games aren’t in demand, when even %10 is still million of people
❌Now they wanna take away disc, and to give you a code n the box, while the prices keep rising, while value and options keeps declining
This is their next step to making you own nothing, lock you into their ecosystem so you can remain subscribed and paying for their slop forever.
They will gaslight you into thinking “downloading games makes no sense, streaming is the way!”
Just like how the hypocrite argues physical games are like vinyl records and that “Sony knows better” when Sony themselves are marketing vinyl record players are the best way to listen to music and vinyl record sales are so high that artists release many variants to boost their album to No.1
And it’s crazy that gaming is the medium that needs physical media the most, as it’s the most demanding in terms of downloads and streaming compared to music, film, books and shows, all of which are far easier to access via download or streaming for a long time.
And as usual, gaming is the one industry where the customer is always assumed to be “wrong, entitled and toxic” and treated like children and expected to spend like adults, and also expected to worry about profits for CEOs, studio closures, and basically everything but their own best interest.
Enough is enough!
Stand up for your own self interest, before it’s too late for any meaningful change to happen.
NO DISC 💿 NO BUY
Nintendo has stated that it's maintained a hefty proportion of physical game sales at 38.5%, suggesting that the company has no desire to kill physical media anytime soon. https://t.co/spnq6eQeNV
Don't believe these companies and their miss information
Don't believe bootlickers who are company simps
Don't accept physical media dying, keep fighting!!! People are NOT backing down at all, nothing is losing momentum.
If your digital-only future comes🚀
And suddenly…
❌Your license is revoked for whatever reason
Or
❌Your account is suspended or asked to change region upon moving by making a new account and repurchasing your games
Or
❌Or prices suddenly go up and you got little to no alternatives
Or
❌An old game you love is gone for good with no means to preserve it
Or
❌There’s no internet or the network is down and you find issues accessing a game
Among other things… don’t come crying about it, because we warned you, we explained to you, and still you chose to shill for a bunch corporations that see you as nothing more than a number that they manipulate for their own greedy and tosses when you’re of no use to them.
Enjoy!
NO DISC 💿 NO BUY
Tengo 45 años.
Y por primera vez en mi vida, me siento fuera de lugar en mi propio lugar.
Crecí contando arañazos en las carátulas. Soplando cartuchos aunque me dijeran que no servía de nada. Esperando a que mi madre me llevara al videoclub a alquilar un juego de megadrive y mirando el manual de camino a casa como si fuera un tesoro sagrado. Cada caja de un juego nuevo era un ritual. Romper el precinto. Oler a plástico nuevo. Colocar el disco con cuidado, como si pudiera romperse con la mirada.
Ese era mi mundo.
Hoy entro en una tienda y no hay mundo. Hay códigos. Cajas vacías con un papel dentro. Hay dependientes que me dicen "mejor cómpralo digital, que ocupa menos".
PlayStation, la que me enseñó lo que era un mundo abierto, la que me hizo llorar con Shadow of the Colossus, la que me hizo sentir invencible con God of War... ahora me dice que lo físico le sobra. Que soy yo el que sobra. Que mi estantería llena de lomos de colores es un estorbo, un capricho de viejo romántico que no entiende el futuro.
Y quizás tengan razón. Quizás soy viejo.
Veo las presentaciones nuevas y no entiendo nada. Pases de batalla. Tiendas dentro del juego. Juegos que no están terminados y te piden 80 euros para luego venderte el final a plazos. Todo es servicio, suscripción, nube. Nada es tuyo. Pagas por no tener nada. Pagas por el derecho a que te lo quiten cuando ellos quieran.
Yo no quiero un servicio. Quiero un juego.
Así que he vuelto. He desempolvado la PS2. La PS1 que hace ese ruido de turbina de avión al leer. La PS3 que suena como si fuera a despegar. He vuelto a ese clic satisfactorio al cerrar la bandeja. A ese "clack" del cartucho entrando.
Y ahí, con el mando con cable, jugando a algo que ya me pasé hace veinte años, es cuando vuelvo a sentirme en casa.
No es nostalgia. Es refugio.
Porque ahí fuera, la industria siguió avanzando y se olvidó de preguntarme si quería ir con ella. @PlayStation #playstation5 @Sony #sony @dan_chaos
Não se conformar com o tanto de besteira que a PlayStation está fazendo eu entendo e compartilho do mesmo sentimento. Agora, incentivar as pessoas a nem comprarem jogos físicos para "prejudicar" a empresa, como estou vendo aqui no X, já é forçar demais não acha?
Calma , eles estão errados.
Quem está certo são os influenciadores que recebem troco pra enganar telespectadores enquanto jogam no Pc com desculpa de " Ainnn ganhei a chave pra jogar no Pc"
Industry legends who spoke in support of physical video game media🚀
✅Hideo Kojima
✅Shuji Utsumi – SEGA President & COO
✅Dan Houser – Rockstar Co-Founder
✅Sohei Niikawa – Disgaea Creator
✅Josh Fairhurst – Limited Run Co-Founder
✅Yoko Taro
Meanwhile, those who are creatively and morally bankrupt, have no respect for gamers, a track record for disappointment and seeing games as merely a business, have been against physical games and pro-Sony’s predatory digital-only monopoly future.
NO DISC 💿 NO BUY
Xbots: We have the less powerful hardware
We have no extra features in our controllers
We have the lowest number of players
We have no vr options
Everyone should be held back to our lowest standards!!!!