alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 12 days agoSony reportedly working on 'Cross-Buy' feature for unified game ownership between PlayStation 5 and PC — Leaked icons indicate Sony's answer to Xbox Play Anywhere is comingwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
arrow-up14arrow-down1external-linkSony reportedly working on 'Cross-Buy' feature for unified game ownership between PlayStation 5 and PC — Leaked icons indicate Sony's answer to Xbox Play Anywhere is comingwww.tomshardware.comalessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareTachyonTele@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoI see this, and all I imagine is forced launchers and required account log ins to play your games.
minus-squareSuiXi3D@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 days agoHow else you do you imagine them being able to track your purchases across platforms?
minus-squareLfrith@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoAlso might affect release of Sony games on GOG.
minus-squaresabin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·12 days agoFor sure. Unfortunately PC gamers wille at that shit right up without a moment’s hesitation. Just look at how popular steam is.
minus-squareTachyonTele@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-212 days agoYou do know that something like 75-99% of games on steam don’t have any drm, right? You can play most games right from the exe.
minus-squaresabin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down2·12 days agoNone ive ever purchased have been drm/launcher free. Even binding of Isaac and terraria need that bloated garbage excuse for a launcher open to run.
minus-squareTachyonTele@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoI don’t think you’ve ever tried.
minus-squareTlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoTerraria is precisely the game I ran from executable alone.
minus-squareBluegrass_Addict@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·7 days agoyou probably don’t even know what, or where the executable is located for any of those games
minus-squaresabin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoRunning the app directly through steam/ the freedesktop launcher steam makes should work without internet access
minus-squareBluegrass_Addict@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agohttps://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/46BD-6BA8-B012-CE43 no INTERNET needed, only wifi or hardwired local network
I see this, and all I imagine is forced launchers and required account log ins to play your games.
How else you do you imagine them being able to track your purchases across platforms?
Also might affect release of Sony games on GOG.
For sure. Unfortunately PC gamers wille at that shit right up without a moment’s hesitation. Just look at how popular steam is.
You do know that something like 75-99% of games on steam don’t have any drm, right? You can play most games right from the exe.
None ive ever purchased have been drm/launcher free. Even binding of Isaac and terraria need that bloated garbage excuse for a launcher open to run.
I don’t think you’ve ever tried.
Terraria is precisely the game I ran from executable alone.
you probably don’t even know what, or where the executable is located for any of those games
Running the app directly through steam/ the freedesktop launcher steam makes should work without internet access
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/46BD-6BA8-B012-CE43
no INTERNET needed, only wifi or hardwired local network