Always nice to see a company be pro-consumer, pro-gamer in these times of corporate greed that see gamers as nothing more than psychological manipulable profit.

Yeah, pretty out of left field but I’m happy they’re doing it since it’s such a pain to get the original running on a modern system.

https://x.com/charlieINTEL/status/2079561875507826898

Notice that since 2009 the trend of physical media sales. This isn’t a new thing here and was a trend that well before this whole “scandal” of getting rid of physical media from the three console makers.

It was the gamers that moved away from physical media well before the industry made these decisions. It was the gamers that decided convenience is more important than having a physical copy of a game. I honestly view this as the industry simply catching up to the dynamics of the gamer market here and this was something that the gamer market brough largely by themselves. At this point, I think it would be more beneficial to the gamer to focus on making sure we have the same rights over digital goods as we do with physical media, including the ability to sell our keys withing the ecosystem.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m still an advocate for having physical media but I’m not going to be some kind of hypocritical outrage machine when I myself have so much more digital games vs physical games and basically treat physical media as a treat just like vinyl.

I mean EA as a company, sure.

EA executives that have it’s the bullshit price and accomplishment, absolutely, may the get the slice of karma they all deserve.

EA employees who had no say in most of the pride and accomplishment, not as much.

Shouldn’t dismember a journalist?

Let me show you my original Nintendo game & watch young one…

Sail the seas if it reviews good.

Really shows that people don’t read past the headline.

The tech bros like him, Bezos, Huang, and all those other tech fascists are working extra hard to make sure we don’t have the software or hardware to buy in order to play or do anything independently.

Yeah, like Cards Against Humanity spotted the difference and decided to not be anti-consumer asshats.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91500865/tariff-refund-cards-against-humanity-trump