New data shows that physical software dollar sales dipped to an all-time July low of $85 million in the US — the worst total since tracking began in 1995.
  • godsammitdam@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Right… the lack of making informed consumer decisions is the cause of the rise of fascism. Got it.

    Are you saying that single issue voters are well informed? Lol. It’s the same mentality. If people informed themselves a little more they’d realize immigrants, trans folk, etc aren’t the problem. But it’s convenient to be told what to think by others.

    And I mean physical games will just stop being made, so good luck keeping ownership of those.

    Exactly what SKG and many others are/should be doing is pushing legislators for ownership and consumer rights.

    I think the solution is to pirate, and start stockpiling memory.

    Stockpile physical media too and ensure it’s preserved. And pivot your purchases to open hardware platforms (like PC) and platforms that better respect ownership (like GoG) to support them. Contribute to emulation and the cracking of games for preservation. It’s a yes, and situation.

    • novibe@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Physical media that exists for games doesn’t last so if it’s not constantly produced it will just decay in a few years.

      Legislation should allow game archiving (pirating) and archivists should work to find a way to best keep the games. If thats physically somehow, sure. But I doubt it. Games are digital.

      There’s basically no serious longterm digital data archiving that is kept in discrete physical media.

      Also, individual ownership is not the right way to solve this. These things should be publicly available for all, not kept private by a few people.

      • godsammitdam@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        4 days ago

        We’re saying the same things, just I’m saying keep physical as an option too as it has been given the entanglement in ownership.

        And the same argument can be used for archival hosting too. You say we can’t expect physical to be produced in perpetuity (not what I was saying btw) but we also can’t expect a company to host downloads in perpetuity either. Hence individual ownership to allow users to form communities and build archives outside of the corporations.

        Those communities can then be protected and encouraged the way labor organization should be.