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I wonder what the impact on piracy will be? It's probably harder to rip streaming services than it is to rip blu-rays...
There only needs to be a couple people knowing how to get a rip for it to end up everywhere.
If physical releases start disappearing everywhere, I can see piracy getting a significant boost. It will be the only way to "own" a movie and be sure you can still watch it whenever you want. Disney has been removing content from its service already, even some recent stuff.
I know Gabe Newell's old quote is being parroted a lot but it's relevant : "Piracy is not a pricing issue, it's a service issue". Steam may be a digital market, but it doesn't require a continued paid subscription to access stuff you've paid for, and it doesn't delist games whenever it feels like it.
FWIW, Gabe’s argument isn’t against subscriptions. The point in that quote is that legal access to content curbs piracy. Piracy will of course always exist, but there’s also customers that are willing to pay if is convenient and accessible.
Needing to subscribe to multiple different services to get everything you'd want and them constantly upping the prices is a service problem, no?
it doesn't delist games whenever it feels like it.You're still trusting a company to have your game library available in the future. Gaben will die at some point, someone will take over for him, we don't know what will happen with Valve in 10, 20 or 30 years...
I won't allow it.
Maybe someone with a better grip on work teams and projects will finally come to an end and we'll get HL3 at last!
There are another dozen drm platforms you will survive
I mean, out of all the companies that I have boight stuff from, Valve is the one I trust the most
Why? Unless it's DRM free and you've got a copy downloaded then your shit can be wiped out whenever they feel like it and it's not as if accounts have never been banned from the platform, cutting people from thousands of dollars worth of stuff...
But it can remove music from games you already purchased.
Music licensing for games is bullshit, and physical (or a trip to the high seas) is the only way around it.
Its trivially more difficult to do webrips. It will likely have the opposite effect of what you're thinking of, some people that would buy blurays will just pirate now.
If someone buys a disc, they own it and it's a one off. To be tied to subscription services will see the Jolly Roger fly again in Australia.
Remember when we were the country known to be the largest pirates?
We don’t even crack the top ten now. We used to be cool.
Let's get the old crew back together!
I never stopped sailing my friend.
So long as you are using a cable to send images and video to a TV, someone will find a way to intercept and record it.
The bigger issue is that Blurays are the highest quality video there is, especially when it comes to audio. For those who do care this is deviating.