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Tell your friend that my friend said thank you for the information.
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If your friends enjoy information, maybe that would help.
I found that information for a friend, who said it might have been the best information they've ever received!
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You failed at life
Overdriven
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As somebody who knows somebody with inside issues, I can confirm a bidet/M16 ass gun not only solves all world problems but it also cuts toilet paper use by 90%. We need to re do a bit of plumbing in one of our bathrooms and we'll be installing when that happens.
Bodhi
Once agreed with Scouse and a LibDem at same time
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They've locked it down that much you can't use Bluetooth?
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Yep. They've a set of peripherals you can order internally that'll pass. Other than that, if you plug something in that you shouldn't then secirity'll turn up and march you offsite.
Got the shockz openrun pro 2 (or something). They're fucking great.
DaGaffer
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Same where I work, and when I worked for a bank I couldn't even use my personal wireless keyboard.
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There's no such thing as a sale, only spending
Overdriven
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What you get for playing with your vegetables out in public.Cracked rib. Again.
I wish I was better at jumping MTB
Overdriven
Dumpster Fire of The South
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The people have spoken.
Sony has officially killed the pre-owned and physical gaming market.
People voted with their wallets.
Sony has officially killed the pre-owned and physical gaming market.
People voted with their wallets.
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Looks like Microsoft are following suite at some point.
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What is wrong? They might allow physical to digital if you own the disc but that won't last long.
www.gamesindustry.biz
Xbox is reportedly considering dropping disc drives as it tests new feature that lets players digitize physical games
A new report now claims Xbox, like PlayStation, is set to "drop the disc drive."
www.gamesindustry.biz
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I am torn between "how dare they" and "meh"
I haven't bought a physical PC game in about 15 years, at least, probably near 20 (been on Steam for 21) and baring a few indi games, I don't find I play older games anyway and would love someone not lazy to come and trim my Steam game collection, of ~1000 games. They can go to the ether for all I care.
I haven't bought a physical PC game in about 15 years, at least, probably near 20 (been on Steam for 21) and baring a few indi games, I don't find I play older games anyway and would love someone not lazy to come and trim my Steam game collection, of ~1000 games. They can go to the ether for all I care.
Tom
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The issue is that they can withdraw a game from their market and you'd have no physical copy of it. The game you paid for - deleted.
So as always, the solution is piracy. Because if buying a game doesn't equal ownership, pirating it doesn't equal theft.
So as always, the solution is piracy. Because if buying a game doesn't equal ownership, pirating it doesn't equal theft.
Not what he said. They can remove (completely offline) games from their marketplaces so they're impossible to even buy. Amazon caused a stir a while ago by remotely deleting delisted books from people's Kindles, what's to stop these companies doing the same for games you've bought and downloaded and assumed you owned forever?
The last physical game I bought was the first new DOOM in 2016. I bought it because my internet was shit back then and I thought it would save time but the fucking disc only had about 5 GB on it, I still had to download >40 GB.
But yes, there absolutely should be. Either keep the servers up or more feasibly open-source (or at least publicly release) the server software so the community can keep them up themselves.
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Yep, I agree with that. And I know the amazon shizzle too.
But the question is fair - there are plenty of ways that games become unavailable. Gone are the days that you bought a thing and it was always wholly yours.
DaGaffer
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It's nice when it happens but it depends heavily on the IP. If there's IP the publisher has licenced from others, or its own it wants to reuse, or countless other combinations; then the source code needed for community servers may incur ongoing costs to the publisher or might not be possible at all.
In reality this was always coming and everyone's known it for a very long time, and when it comes to games in particular I'm OK with it because formats are kind of time-boxed anyway. However, I'm definitely not OK with it when it comes to books or music and I still make local copies of stuff I'm actually bothered about. The ability to makes books, music and video "yours" is trivial (including perpetual rights) and is only not happening due to greed.