Latest / Black Box Theory Podcast / You Don't Actually Own Your Games Anymore
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- Malcolm: This is really just Sony just dragging their nuts. I'm not gonna This is Sony dragging their nuts on ⁓ everybody's faces, bro. 'Cause it's like, what are you gonna do? You're still gonna buy this game. You're not about to go switch over to Xbox. You're still gonna buy this. So shut up and buy my game. Like it it sucks. That really does suck. And I hate that granted, I don't even play games. I think if you asked me this question like like six, seven, six to eight years ago, like I would have had a way more passionate answer. I don't play I don't play the game nearly enough now to have like real stake in this. But Thomas: Yeah. Malcolm: the the inner child in me, the inner gamer in me that's always going to be there, that's nuts, bruh. Cause it it's just the the another piece that isn't talked about enough is the the like people are acting like it's normal for $150 games to come with nothing. Bruh, there's no reason that that the the the ultimate addition of 2K is $150 and I get nothing physical. You're telling me I get a I get $100,000 of VC, which doesn't even max out your player anymore, you get like some of my team packs Some custom kits, uniforms that I'm never gonna use, and some emblems and some some trading cards, bro. 150 you know what $150 used to do for the collector's edition back in the day, bro? You would get an en you would get an entire like a a a a life size action figure, a freaking poster for your room. You get a custom controller rap, like you would get everything, bro, for $150, bro. Like collectors, collector's items and ultra editions used to actually mean something. Now it's just like the newest tier on the on the on PlayStation, bro. And it's like I'm just really scared, bruh, because when discs really go away, they are literally like they can't who's gonna check them for the prices that they set, bro. Who's gonna check them? They can really start making 2K the standard editions $100. They've already they've already snuck and gotten away with standard edition games being $70 now. Like that that's like a I I don't know if you know that, but that's a new thing now. Like games used to be like $50 for the standard edition, for the normalist edition. Now $70 is the base price. Thomas: Mm. Malcolm: And everything after that is just a a tier upgrade, bro. It's Frost. Thomas: Mind you, th this is also after they they are saving money by saving the environment and not producing this. So they're already saving themselves money and they're charging you more. And these games are fat. These games are hundreds of gigs. Malcolm: They they take up three hundred gigs, gang. I don't even know call of duty right now, but call of duty takes up at three hundred gigs on my on my PlayStation, bro. Thomas: Like, can we not be efficient with the storage? Like, you get some banger games with under 10 gigs? Like. Malcolm: For for f ⁓ that's what I'm saying, bruh. Like the old cod cods, old cods used to be like under twenty four gigs, bruh. Forty max. Now we war zone alone is like two hundred gigabytes, bruh. Come on, yo. What are y'all doing in there? Thomas: Hey, and and the real test, the real test is honestly gonna be when the PS6 comes out because anyone and and mind you, in the times we're in, people can barely afford food. Anyone who's digging into their spirit and their soul to pull out fifteen hundred or however much you're gonna have to spend on this next PlayStation and slapping it on the counter and saying, Give me give me this streaming box, because that's what you're getting. You're getting a streaming box. ⁓ Malcolm: ⁓ yeah. Lord have mercy. I I I really don't e I really don't wanna Thomas: Because you don't own the games anymore. Everything's coming from the cloud. You it's a streaming stick, just a little little different dimensions. But it's like that will be the real test of how far people are willing to be led, like sheep. Like you how far are you gonna go and follow the the herder until they lead you to a pool of acid and then just you just walk right in? Malcolm: Cor correct. Yeah.