It’s things like this that make me glad every movie or tv show I have purchased I got physically I do feel bad for them though
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so that means games i bought digital are going away? if so i’m glad i started going back to physical
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No? Sony are deaccessioning movie and TV properties belonging to Discovery most likely because Warner is doing it intentionally to artificially restrict where to view their content. This won’t impact games but there is a remote chance it may happen to games in the future but that is a very remote chance as of right now.
Most people don’t understand that buying digital media doesn’t mean you own it, you are buying a license that allows you to use it at your discretion. It is unfair but nobody does anything about it so it just stays like that.
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aaah okay i getcha. 
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I really don’t care about the whole “digital vs physical” thing in regards to game preservation because in my opinion modern games are screwed either way. Even if you have a physical disc. Its not uncommon for games nowadays to be missing entire sections of the game that get added in with the Day 1 patch, have entire new game modes (like New Game Plus or Freelancer) added in with a patch post-release or are just straight up broken until the Day 1 patch gets applied.
At some point those patches will end up disappearing - in 2021 there were reports that some PS3 games had their patches completely removed - and then even if you have a disc, you’re left with either an incomplete or just outright broken game to try play.
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Games are screwed either way when it comes to preservation. According to a study conducted this year we have lost nearly 90 percent of all games made before the advent of the digital storefront. The real problem is with the licensing laws, it shouldn’t be “digital v. physical” it should be “We hate digital licensing laws, we hate the system.”
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I think the worst offender in all this is Nintendo, I haven’t seen any other company as egregious as them when it comes to Digital Purchases.
Microsoft isn’t as bad, while yes the 360 storefront is twilighting your purchases persist through BC if applicable. Even the long since retired Xbox Indie games you purchased are still available.
I think this development is more indicative of Film and TV purchases where licensing agreements can just not persist and because of that your digital purchases of something like the FNAF movie can be taken away cause Universal doesn’t feel like continuing their business with PlayStation/Sony.
Nintendo have always been awful at both physical and digital preservation of their various libraries. There are a lot of reasons having to do with the entire way Nintendo of Japan runs things at a production level all the way to their own way of handing digital licensing and anti-piracy laws.
Microsoft will most likely never be bad in this regard since it should be painfully obvious they are sidelining physical gaming and consoles and moving towards a digital/cloud based system of operation. If anything they are a problem for other companies since Microsoft’s attempts at consolidation have left them with a bevy of rights to various franchises that are multiplatform. It is really only Spencer’s fear of negative optics and anti-trust litigation that stops him and Microsoft Xbox from pulling those licensed titles off of other storefronts.
It absolutely is also don’t forget music, Metallica has been disastrous for digital licensing and distribution laws.
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Are you referring to Napster or something else? I gotta say, as a lifelong traveler of the high seas, and as an even life-longier Metallicat… they were right.
But if you’re referring to something else, I’d be curious. Metallica is pretty famous for making available tons of soundboard-quality live shows… for a price of course.
I am referring to Metallica v. Napster
Lars was right that something needed to be done about Napster platforming his demos, sessions and masters and that it wasn’t right to leak and distribute that content but that had an unfortunate side effect of giving the major recording studios and media companies casus belli to attack P2P and digital distribution models back them.
So Rockstar apparently decided to release the GTA 6 trailer early.
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It isn’t early for me, it is exactly when they said it was here in Australia.
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Ah. According to the Rockstar X/Twitter the trailer had already leaked, so they brought the official release forward.
Was meant to release at 9am ET on December 5th. It’s currently 6:28PM ET on December 4th.
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Oh yeah I forgot it had an exact time and everything. I don’t give a shit because I am so fucking ready, they went and made Florida Man the Game.
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Twerk it, baby, twerk it!
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My eyes after watching that
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Looks like Vice City turned into Florida!
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Take these broken wiiiiiiiiiiiiii-
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In other news a trailer for TLOU2 Remastered’s No Return Mode was released today. Kinda got overshadowed by GTA6’s trailer but I guess they weren’t planning on Rockstar releasing the trailer a bit early.
I’m really pleased by what I’m seeing in it! It looks like there’s a decent amount of variety in terms of mission types and modifiers (Including invisible enemies!). I’m also surprised that there’s 10 unique characters to play as, I was only expecting like 4-6. Joel didn’t appear in the trailer at all though, maybe they want to keep him more of a surprise? The gameplay was by far my favorite aspect of TLOU2, so I’m glad they’re giving it more time to shine!
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Leaked Early so they pivoted to get it out early.
Jason and Lucia are the two playable protagonists, their relationship and storyline will be more Bonnie and Clyde based.
Map will be drastically larger than Los Santos with various cities and sub cities. The State is called Leonida which is the home of Vice City.
Will be using the Volumetric Cloud system that RDR2 had.
The Song used in the trailer seems intentional and could hint Jason and Lucias relationship during the story.
Police System is advanced and will be more be more tactical in their approach to the player.
Parodying various aspects of Florida and the streamer/social media influencer age of the internet.
Judging from the 2025 release year. Rockstar could be pushing for Spring 2025, but that means Fall 2025 since Rockstar is notorious for their delays.
A majority of interiors will be enterable.
Lastly and most important detail is Vice Point, Ocean View Hotel, and Malibu Club will return with new HD Universe interpretations.
Edit: also want to add a lot of systems from RDR2 will persist into GTA 6 so don’t expect gameplay to be closer to GTA 5.
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