cm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoRon Wyden asks for rules about whether you own your digital purchaseswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square26linkfedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10
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minus-squareThe Pantser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoI buy hard drives, it is the best way to own a physical copy of media. Arr
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoWon’t help you in a case like Destiny 2, where all the content is hosted online by Bungie and they decided to completely remove 1/2 of the original base game plus the first few expansions.
minus-squareFreeBooteR69@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoEasy, keep your money and buy games from devs who don’t suck.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoWhen Destiny 2 came out in 2017, the conventional wisdom was that Bungie did not suck. Destiny 1 came out in 2014 and is still fully playable. It wasn’t until 2020 that Bungie decided to start screwing everyone over with D2. Ironically, 1 year after ending their partnership with Activision. Of all the various problems Destiny had, it looks like Bungie was the source and not big, bad Activision.
minus-squareSemperverus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoThat only works after you’ve found out the developer is a scumbag though
minus-squarestardust@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoThen don’t buy a game until it is cracked if it has DRM?
I buy hard drives, it is the best way to own a physical copy of media. Arr
Won’t help you in a case like Destiny 2, where all the content is hosted online by Bungie and they decided to completely remove 1/2 of the original base game plus the first few expansions.
Easy, keep your money and buy games from devs who don’t suck.
When Destiny 2 came out in 2017, the conventional wisdom was that Bungie did not suck. Destiny 1 came out in 2014 and is still fully playable.
It wasn’t until 2020 that Bungie decided to start screwing everyone over with D2. Ironically, 1 year after ending their partnership with Activision.
Of all the various problems Destiny had, it looks like Bungie was the source and not big, bad Activision.
That only works after you’ve found out the developer is a scumbag though
Then don’t buy a game until it is cracked if it has DRM?