We will own nothing and be happy

Hello first blog! 🤟

Sony is going to stop producing physical copies of games by 2028. This is worrying for many reasons, if this is the path that the industry goes down, it will create a consumer environment that would take every possible advantage to screw you over, milk you for profit and just in general make gaming as a hobby way expensive 🤪(more than it already does)

I'm not one to oppose digital media, I think its nice and convenient, but, ceasing the production of physical media will in turn, pave the way for subscription based services. We have seen it happen to music and movie streaming, we are seeing it happen to electric cars, and its sorta here for gaming platforms like Xbox and PlayStation, its just how the pattern goes with capitalism best at innovating in maximizing profit 🤩(only).



why bad 

Hopefully you, who is reading this, have already put 2 and 2 together and realized that, this is not very cool. If not, I will quickly explain.

The things you bought can be taken away from you at any given moment, when a product like a console or game service approaches "the end-of-life" part of its development, things shut down and make everything on there inaccessible for you, the person who has bought the product. examples would include the PS3 and PS Vita storefronts, The Crew, PVZGW, Battlefield Hardline etc.

while for consoles you can still play the games you have already bought, you cant buy any new ones on that specific console. What if you wanted to buy a ps3 bc its cheap or its cool to larp with? How can you larp without any games?!?! 😨. Physical discs completely circumnavigates this issue because Companies cannot come to your house and kill you, steal the disc and leave, its illegal I hear! (for the most part). What if games completely become subscription based? once you stop paying, its completely gone from your library. I may not know for sure that this will happen but nobody also guessed that the Japanese company, sony, will cease to produce discs for their consoles. They literally invented Blu-ray and minidiscs and now they're doing this shit. 
  

Physical media puts a "line in the sand" to a company trying to milk its consumers for every penny as it limits or puts a stop to these types of slimey business practices.

Physical media is one of the most reliable ways to archive and preserve games,software,apps etc for a century or more, it allows us to catalogue and archive games that have come before and leave it to future generations to study and gawk at, everything is a part of our culture, this includes the internet and everything it has created. we have to preserve it for the future, it saves the hard work of everyone who has worked on any type of media and it most importantly saves art from being lost to time. If a company has the ability to shut down and kill its products forever without cataloguing or archiving, we lose part of what made our present interesting. This creates a

  "Digital dark age"! 

Wikipedia: A real risk where our current era could become a historical blind spot. Unlike physical artefacts, digital data vanishes due to obsolete file formats, degrading physical media, "link rot," and tech companies deleting cultural records. And it is happening fasr, 38% of all webpages from 2013 alone and thats just webpages 😵



Conclusion

We should limit companies in what they can so that they dont make literally doing anything as a hobby or even necessity living hell for us common folk. Truly this problem will never be fixed as long as capitalism itself exists, sorry capitalists but you guys are massive L, the noose is that way 👉


I think that if more people just buy or even actively try to preserve their media, learn how to maintain, archive, catalogue their existing collection and continue to add more to it, we can mitigate this genuine threat of losing parts of our history/culture.



I hope that this short ramble of me just being angry at capitalism and its many issues is not too long.

Goodbye.