Pay for the games that have good consumer practices.
For the predatory games, either find some other way to get them…or don’t play/pay at all.
CONTENT LICENSE AND RESTRICTIONS
10.1. All intellectual property rights subsisting in PSN Content, including all software, data, services, and other content subsisting in or used in connection with PSN, the Online ID and access to content and hardware used in connection with PSN belong to SIE, its affiliates, and its licensors. Use of the terms “own,” “ownership”, “purchase,” “sale,” “sold,” “sell,” “rent” or “buy” in this Agreement or in connection with PSN Content does not mean or imply any transfer of ownership of any content, data or software or any intellectual property rights from SIE, its affiliates or its licensors to any user or third party.Source: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/legal/terms-of-use-march-2025
It’s worse, when any company can define what these terms mean.
At least in theory theres a California law that stops them. It’s not enforced but it exists.
Since all the regulatory agencies that keep corporations in check are captured, we’re going to see more and more abuses of consumers, especially through EULAs and TOS.
In fact, TOS and EULA abuse is so useful (thanks to the DMCA) we’re now seeing proprietary software added into devices just to force obsolescence.
See also UNEQUAL TREATIES
See also RIGHT TO REPAIRLong live the devs. Fuck publishers.
They might call it sideowning or something like that
Then I should be able to sideload it onto another device!
After all, it’s no longer limited by any sort of physical, proprietary format, right?
RIGHT?!
Not a physical limitations, but there is the real problem of operating system compatibility, they definitely should be able to make games more compatible though
well… I have been a Mac guy for 25 years… it’s never stopped me from running all of the Fallout and Elder Scroll games, for example, which, AFAIK, have never been ported to macOS… yet…
Look, one way or another, they’re going to want to sell their games, and they’re going to have to make them work on other platforms— or others will. They were almost convinced, then they packed off the idea when they saw a little competition from the Steam Machine and when the Xbox was doing something mysterious an weird that turned out to be nothing.
what Sony an MS need to do now is realize that the age of the console (as they know it) is over. That they realize (as we all always knew) they they were always selling hyper tweaked, specialized pcs, and that’s what we always wanted, but we can all build ourselves now-- but, ok, WE CAN’T! because the market has been crushed due to these AI fuckbags (which they have helped fuck us both).
So, now, everyone is screwed, and what customers want is what the Steam Machine offers: an affordable, open platform (and device) that provides an open (and portable!) platform which doesn’t really demand much (too much) brand loyalty, and no subscription overhead. Plus it’s a mid-range linux home PC to start, plus whatever else you wish to do with it.
And I don’t care what the nerds at Valve say, it’s clearly a 3rd or 4th generation tribute NeXTCube, and probably the first one that was any sort of success, especially in an engineering sense, as all previous attempts, despite their beauty, were engineering catastrophes. In fact, after reading their specs and several overview videos, it seems that they’ve really cracked the formula and made the serious thermal issues of the compact cube shape work in ways that have eluded engineers in the past, so good for them.
Nah, game publishers are happily swimming in money
And this should include any terms or conditions! No more “Please accept our updated privacy agreement”. Fuck you, I bought the thing, the thing should remain as I bought it. No more planned obsolescence, selling of data and all of the other bullshit. Companies have been getting away with this shit for far too long.
How would you pirate playstation games?
rom hacks up to ps2 haven’t cared much past that
anything modern generally has a pc release
With my hands
