• ampersandrew@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I’m struggling with your English a bit, but basically yes.

    “But the publishers don’t want you to resell games. They want to have you buy games from their first party sales channel over and over again until the end of time.”

    This is a problem that doesn’t really exist on PC due to forward compatibility and competing marketplaces. That forward compatibility has now been easily observed for decades by people who’ve been slowly losing the advantages that consoles used to offer.

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      5 days ago

      I disagree. DRM breaks “forward compatibility” especially with online auth, and Steam dominates PC game sales. Not to mention some publishers avoid releasing on Steam but on their own platforms. PC gamers lost the ability to resell games long before the console gamers did. Still, I digress.

      None of your poins help nor prove PC gaming market grows and cause console’s to shrink.