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I've been thinking about how Sony, and others, are no longer planning to sell physical games, but fuck! What's next? Next thing you know, they'll be charging a subscription fee for using the software. I hope they don't hear me say that, lest I give them the idea. https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/

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[–] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 19 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

lmao I'm glad people are finally catching on the the trends of the past 20 years

[–] spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh nononono, this is how capitalists, and free enterprise types before them (and let's be real; a lot of royalty, too), always were. There has always been greedy fucks trying to get as much wealth out of every encounter they could. Though capitalism normalized it for the average Joe.

Just look up "company towns" for one example of how shitty they have already been in the past. They've always strived for normal people owning nothing.

The only reason it seems like the past twenty years is because during the previous fifty years, the capitalists were heavily regulated, unions were strong (after fighting and literally dying for much of the nice things we enjoy today like a five day work week), and the ultra-wealthy were taxed to hell and back.

There will always be greedy selfish fucks that must see number go up. The world is slowly re-learning that they are the problem, not the solution.

[–] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 1 points 16 hours ago

oh no, I'm not oblivious to that either lol i was just talking about the removal of physical media and addition of software subscriptions specifically.

Capitalism has always been evil as fuck, no argument there.