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Their policy is to refund games within a specific time period for any reason. Basically you can demo any game in the library. Although I suspect if you did it too often they would flag your account.
I’ve been buying all the new Sony games and then immediately refunding them and posting a bad review because of the PSN bullshit.
Otger than needing to sign into an additional account, why does everyone hate this so much?
- It’s completely unnecessary
- Sony has a long history of leaking personal information
- Sony is most certainly selling your information for profit
- Sony’s servers suck ass. I literally can’t even make an account. It gives me some kind of generic error.
- Sony stopped making the game available in countries where they don’t allow PSN accounts. Makes you wonder what’s so valuable about account linking that they would pass up sales in all of those countries.
Halo makes me sign into a Microsoft account, but i havent seen nearly the amount of hate for that.
That’s because it’s old. Everyone complained about it when it came out with this requirement as well. The frogs have all been boiled on that front.
Give Steam/Valve enough power and it’ll do the same.
Valve has tons of power. Like, a lot. They seem to (for the most part) wield it responsibly. They’re certainly not perfect but time and time again, given the choice, they choose to do the right thing. Look no further than the Steam Deck.
Imagine how easy it would have been to ship it with Windows. But they went through the pain-staking and expensive process of creating Proton and making everything work super smoothly on a completely open-source OS, and even funding the developers of said OS. Sure, they needed something to distance themselves from Microsoft but imagine how easy it would be for them to lock down the OS so that you could never leave Steam or install any competing stores or make any modifications. Or they could even create their own OS/ecosystem like XBOX and PS do.
Imagine how easy it would have been to be like every other OEM and glue it together and solder everything to the mobo and make it completely unrepairable/unupgradeable. Instead they gave it a removable back and updated it to use torx screws and partnered with iFixIt to ensure longevity out of respect for their consumers.
Imagine how easy it would be to just ignore Denuvo and EULAs and 3rd party accounts, but they force publishers to list them.
They also have an excellent track record for customer support.
Installing an OS is so easy even I can do it, and it only takes about a half an hour on a modern machine.
As a bonus you can pick and choose whatever cases and other components, and get the most performance for your money.
Not trying to tell you what to do, but if you haven’t tried you should give it a go. Bazzite is really awesome and I use it on my living room PC. Only thing it’s missing is HDMI-CEC to turn on automatically and the sleep/resume function and the power up with controller.
Not having lots of SKUs and a user-managed OS is kinda what the console experience is about.
I dunno what a “user managed OS” means. There’s no reason MS couldn’t port the exact same experience, considering current and past XBOXes are both built on x86.
As far as SKUs, I agree, but that’s only part of the console experience. The rest of it is a controller-first interface and streamlined processing. The various SKUs is also what attracts so many people to PC gaming, and in case you haven’t noticed, it is an incredibly quickly-growing segment.
not everybody is in the same situation you’re in
The vast majority of people are.
You’re treating this like we’re having a debate, and I don’t really know why.
Because I said they shouldn’t be included and detailed why, and you disagreed 🤷
it’s not impossible by that point I’ll need an entirely different charger to get maximum charging speed.
It is extremely unlikely that your new phone would consume more power than your “old as fuck” laptop or your Steam Deck charger. It is, however, extremely likely that your new faster-charging phone would require a faster charger than your previous phone would include.
We’re veering into the realm of the hypothetical
Yes and no. If they were required to, it’s very likely they would continue doing what they have been doing for decades.
It really seems like you’re trying to plead the case for very obscure use-cases and not living in reality.
Is it too late for that?
Why would it be?
those that do would probably prefer SetamOS…or something else that isn’t affiliated with Microsoft.
For whatever reason, millions of people obviously still prefer XBOX, in addition to or in place of, PC, Sony, Nintendo, etc. All this does is give those people more options.
or PopOS
PopOS does not deliver the console experience that I’m referring to.
One for my desk, the other for my bedside.
Sorry, you specifically said 2 different chargers, so I thought you had some misconception about how USB-PD works.
You skipped the last question. In 10 years or whatever, when you buy another new phone/laptop/literally any electronic device, you’ll be able to charge it with the same charger you already have and won’t have another one filling up your drawers like I do.
Also didn’t reply to the bit about having an actually good and useful charger. When I bought my laptop, I threw the included one in the drawer and bought another one anyway that can be used to charge my phone and/or other devices. I even have one that looks like a normal charger but is actually a dock to connect a second monitor.
This sucks…since I need two different chargers for the phone.
…why do you need 2 chargers?
Have you never owned a laptop before? Have you never owned a PD charging phone before? Will you never own them again?
it definitely would’ve been nice to have at least one included with the phone.
If they included one with the phone, it would have been cheap crap that only served to charge the phone. Buy a nicer, more universal one, and then never buy one again. Or be like me and buy a handful of them to leave all over the house.
I glossed over it. I’m not really sure what their position, but I don’t think any devices should come with USB-C chargers.
They’re not going to throw in nice ones, they’re going to throw in cheap junk.
When I got my Steam Deck I was super disappointed that it came with a USBC charger with the cable that was fixed to the power brick and only 3 feet long. So it’s basically useless. I already have a dozen 45W+ chargers with multiple charging ports and A/C. I already have some really nice 10 foot braided cables that actually reach where I need them to. That charging brick is still sitting in it’s box.
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What’s the actual difference? Is it just a fancy name for features we’ve been using
More or less, yes. AI is marketing grift tech companies have been trying to sell us for decades. It never ever works but they continue to try and shove it down our throats year after year. It has the potential to be extremely valuable in a lot of ways but in reality it falls short of what is needed in order to be valuable. We’ve seen this for decades with Siri and Google Assistant. I don’t know why, the only people buying it seem to be other corporations, right before it very predictably fucks them and then they discontinue it. There’s also tons of money to make by defrauding “investors” with farcical hype, taking their money, and never delivering anything practical.
OpenAI made some major strides with the likes of ChatGPT and Dall-E and really kicked this whole revolution off but it’s already crashing and burning.
Installed on my Steam Deck using Heroic and launched from Steam and I have no issue with controls.