• 0 Posts
  • 13 Comments
Joined 2 days ago
cake
Cake day: July 3rd, 2026

help-circle


  • blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMemes@sopuli.xyzSony
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    17 hours ago

    There were lots of games that had multiple release revisions that fixed bugs. Gran Turismo 2’s original versions couldn’t be completed 100% due to a glitch, a reprint ended up fixing it. If you bought the game on launch, you were stuck with that copy.

    This is also why if you go looking for ROMs, you’ll see some games have multiple versions with some differences.

    There were also lots of games that were released in buggy, unfinished states. They just don’t get remembered but anyone who grew up gaming in the 90s and early 2000s probably remembers getting some garbage bargain bin games from relatives at Christmas that were complete disasters. The Fifth Element game, for example.





  • Pointing out that Sony (apparently) making Concord unable to be downloaded again is not at all like how Valve lets delisted games usually still be downloaded by people who owned those games is the opposite of conflation. Conflation is when you say Valve is just like Sony when it comes to delisted games in that they both don’t let you download the game files again even though that’s false for one of those companies.

    Do you not realize what you said with these lines?

    Everyone lost access to their files when Valve allowed Sony to pull Concord from Steam.

    Or when Valve pulled Total War Arena, The Day Before, The Culling 2, etc.

    Did you think you named the actual publishers for those games this whole time and didn’t realize you put it all at the feet of Valve? Did you not remember that you said Valve has the power to allow a publisher to delist their games or not?