this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2026
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It's more than the discs. It's about the fact that you're not owning what you purchase and you can spend as much as you like on digital and one day, poof, it'll be gone and so will your money. Discs aren't able to be deleted. Even if a format goes obsolete, there's media players like vlc that will play them.
That's what it's about.
Like video games
You can buy all the games you want on steam if goes away after 90 days that's just how it is but when you buy a game for a system at a what 80$-120$ a game you expect to play it forever be able to play it when the wifi goes out, be able to play with your friends, be able to save your data but all that is online and they're able to use that against the consumer.
They took split screen, they forced us to use internet, they took memory cards, they dissolved servers. What more can they do oh yeah make it so we don't actually own the game.