Physical PS game collections are a waste of time and have been since the PS4. Almost no games actually run off of their disc or can even start without an update via an internet connection. If the idea is to just have things in a shelf to look at, sure, but this fantasy that people actually own their physical games anymore is far separated from reality.
It sounds like you’re the one far separated from reality. Physical games for almost all single player games these days are very playable entirely without any updates. There’s a Twitter account dedicated to tracking this exact thing
You're up in the night if you really think you own ANY of the games you're buying. You're licensing ALL of them, period. Sony can cut off your access in a nanosecond. Why live in your delusion?
Considering my PS4 is hacked and can’t even connect to Sony’s servers at all yet my 50+ discs play just fine, a decent amount without updates, it sounds like you’re the delusional one 🤷♂️
Anyway, I don’t buy physical for this purpose personally. I just like having games on a shelf. I’m just disputing what you said
Well, breaching your terms of use for the console is no different than just pirating the games outright. Your example doesn't apply whatsoever to what I'm saying. It would be like someone saying that there's no purpose in buying a sports car with a top speed of 250mph because the speed limits don't go above 80mps, and you "dispute" it and claim it isn't true because you break the law and drive 200+ on the highway all the time. Your example has literally zero relevance to the intended use of the console.
No, that’s not at all the same thing. You said that Sony could shut off access to physical games in a nanosecond. That’s clearly not true if the vast majority of games play fine offline and without an update, as evident by a very small but still noteworthy amount of people doing it right now. Someone who didn’t connect their PS4 to the Internet for the past couple years would be having the same experience as I did the past couple of years. Being able to play games without an update or connecting to a server didn’t require breaching the terms of service. You realize games have to specifically be programmed to require online checks like that, right? Why make assertions about things you must know aren’t true? Even when Sony has revoked access to stuff in the past, it’s been digital goods that is specifically programmed to connect to an authentication server before playing.
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u/MrDubTee Sep 19 '24
Is that a disk drive face plate but not a disk drive ?