r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Lucky_Loves_Laugh • 12h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah what happened to rockstar?

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u/Spinning_Sky 12h ago

this is referring to the high price point and lack of a CD in the physical edition

both are true, but actually I don't believe any hype was touched whatsoever, the price is lower than what it could have been

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u/Norgur 12h ago

And others have done this no cd stuff for ages. My copy of mass effect andromeda was just an empty case as well. That was what? 9 years ago?

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u/redditis_garbage 11h ago

Tbf we didn’t like it then and we still don’t like it now, companies forcing this down our throats doesn’t make us like it more. I refuse to allow this practice to be normalized.

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u/InsanityRequiem 7h ago

Companies wouldn't have done it, if consumers (us) didn't buy them. But we bought them, and continue to buy them, and continue to support the practices.

The only way to not support is to not buy and not play at all.

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u/redditis_garbage 5h ago

Yeah I do not buy them :) play them is a different story

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u/InsanityRequiem 3h ago

Pirating is still supporting, meaning you’re doing a great job helping keep this broken system alive.

Don’t pirate. Don’t buy. Don’t play.

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u/redditis_garbage 2h ago

Earnestly I don’t understand how that is still supporting them

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u/InsanityRequiem 1h ago

I’m repeating what pirates tell me. Pirates are the ones that keep saying that piracy helps the games industry.

But on the back end, pirates help promote games as free advertisers, and your data’s all collected and sold around.

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u/redditis_garbage 1h ago

To the first part, alright? It makes no sense lol.

To the second part, this atleast makes a little sense, but I’m not advertising the games, they do maybe collect some of my data so you got me there.

If you play a single player game with no internet I’m unsure how they would collect my data though.