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With SEGA's Track record... how long Till SEGA... Pull's a SEGA and screw's this up?


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Ah, so that’s why they delisted all the Genesis games — they’re going to sell them back to us through this. Unfortunately for them, I bought all those collections years ago, and they remain safely in my library. 😉

This isn’t the first time they’ve done this — in the mid-2010s, they had a service on mobile devices called “Sega Forever” that added achievements and bonuses, too. That was a pretty high-profile flop, though, so I can see why they’d rebrand.
 
Ya well, SEGA is still a Company, they see it make's that Nostalgia Money now. so let's pull a Nintendo.

Thing is, All their games <Dreamcast back> cold fit on prob a 2 TB SSD, probably a 1TB one tbh.. they really Don't have a Leg to stand on.
Like any of us need another Account to keep up with

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@Yousef Account Cash grab on Retro games thats Free as of right now, But really just getting people to sign up, see how much they can milk Nostalgia, like every other Company is doing.

Oh ya free bonus's in some game.
Same ol Same ol BS every game company is doing.

But its SEGA... we know how they Take a Good idea, And let's do the Opposite

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@Yousef Account Cash grab on Retro games thats Free as of right now, But really just getting people to sign up, see how much they can milk Nostalgia, like every other Company is doing.

Oh ya free bonus's in some game.
Same ol Same ol BS every game company is doing.

But its SEGA... we know how they Take a Good idea, And let's do the Opposite

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It’s usually not “Sega” Sega. A lot of “Sega” failures were Sega of America and Sega of Japan being really dysfunctional siblings. Current Sega is much more… err.. “normal”, by comparison.
 
I have yet to see anyone happy about everything requiring a goddamn account and subscription. So what does Sega do in their infinite wisdom? Not only do they jump on the stupidest bandwagon out there, they're doing it late too. Seriously...

In all fairness, I blame gamers as much as I do the corpo suits. If they could actually stick to a boycott for once and really make a dent in a publisher's revenue whenever they adopt anti-consumer practices gaming would be a helluva lot better than the desolate hellscape it is now.
 
Is anyone really gonna pay for a subscription service that just gives you access to Genesis (and I guess Master System) games? Seems very unlikely. Even if they throw in Saturn/Dreamcast games it's very likely to fail.
Thats what i was Saying, Almost everything of SEGA's <not like bayonetta or anything past the Dreamcast> could fit on a 1-2 TB SSD

And if you are interested in Sega. you most likely Either
A. Have everything Downloaded Already.
B. Have Everything you care about by them Downloaded Already
 
If Sega really wanted to milok them nostalgia Udders, They'd release Remasters of The Arcade versions of their Games





...Not saying I'd Subscribe, but It'd be neat to see
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Geez, Guess there were a few. Not all see a drastic improvement it looks like.
 
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EVERYONE is moving to a subscription model.
The days of buying a thing and keeping it are gone.
Now it's "pay me forever and you own nothing".

Something i utterly loathe. Added with the 'you bought a license not a game' on Steam/EGS/Ubisoft/GoG... Add on top pushing consoles without drives so you HAVE to use THEIR store, and they want to you to REBUY the games you already bought because 'this is the PS4 version, you have to repurchase for the PS5 version' that Sony tried to push with HZD...

Yeah i hate this push. This is why companies need to go bankrupt and be replaced every so often, and why copyright shouldn't be 100+ years.
 
Added with the 'you bought a license not a game' on Steam/EGS/Ubisoft/GoG...
While I liked your post and generally agree with its message... GOG don't play that shit. You get to own what you buy there unless something's changed in the last few weeks that I'm not aware of.
 
While I liked your post and generally agree with its message... GOG don't play that shit. You get to own what you buy there unless something's changed in the last few weeks that I'm not aware of.

You still don't own it. You just have the right to install it and use it without 'phoning home' first. I'm not allowed to transfer my game from GoG to another user, or sell a game i 'bought' if i burn it on disc. It's the same licensing BS, just slightly less annoying. If they ban you your library is gone just the same.

And GoG is as woke as most of the other companies as it's under CDPR.
 
You still don't own it. You just have the right to install it and use it without 'phoning home' first. I'm not allowed to transfer my game from GoG to another user, or sell a game i 'bought' if i burn it on disc. It's the same licensing BS, just slightly less annoying. If they ban you your library is gone just the same.

And GoG is as woke as most of the other companies as it's under CDPR.
I don't know if it's true for all games that they have but you can get offline installers in the extras section of your game and they don't seem to have any limitation on how many times you can use them. So yes, you could burn them on a disc and sell them if you really wanted to. I'm 100% percent sure you could download an offline installer, move it somewhere and then refund the game within 30 days as is their policy and still keep that installer. Again, unless something changed on that front that I'm not aware of, they're pretty damn good.
 
I don't know if it's true for all games that they have but you can get offline installers in the extras section of your game and they don't seem to have any limitation on how many times you can use them.

You're not suppose to burn and sell the games. That clearly falls under what they call 'copyright' or rather 'who has the right to copy said works'. Originally brought about when the printing press came about and books, and selling the rights to copy your works for the purposes of commercial use. In theory you could copy a book by hand and it was technically illegal, but no one would stop you.

According to a judge, just the act of 'downloading' is breaking copyright... what a dunce who doesn't understand technology.

Regardless. If i buy game A from GoG, but download GoG Game B from another site (say, igg-games) what is the difference? They were both on your hard drive and you burned both to two discs, so they are equivalently the same (except which server they came from, a paid or a unpaid one)

I totally believe in supporting developers. I'm not so fond on supporting publishers and key sellers and those that want to take a 30% cut just because. And if i pay for something, i expect all the rights that entails including transfer of ownership. Selling a disc and then burning another only transfers the plastic disc, but not ownership changes.

Implying that homes haven't been the same way for more decades than I care to Google.

There are companies buying up homes with the intent of making us permanent rentors...

Not to get political, but Alex Jones was right.
 
You're not suppose to burn and sell the games.
If no-one's traveling back in time from the future to stop you then how bad could it be really? OK, jokes aside, you've got me on the whole ownership transfer thing. It used to be a right we enjoyed and now we don't have it. And it sucks. If only all those lawsuits from pro-consumer agencies did more than just have the storefronts rephrase their EULAs to something even more buyer-hostile than before. If anything this is something that our governments could enforce and it would be a good use of our taxes for once but alas, the reality of things is what it is.

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I totally believe in supporting developers. I'm not so fond on supporting publishers and key sellers and those that want to take a 30% cut just because.
I understand that at the very least some of it is to finance server upkeep and whatnot but man, I remember when they were trying to sell us on the whole digital storefront thing by claiming that games would become cheaper since going digital would do away with things like pressing discs, printing manuals, paying stores for shelf space and other such things. Well, they really screwed us over on that, didn't they? We're paying more money for less product (or license I suppose).
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There are companies buying up homes with the intent of making us permanent rentors...

Not to get political, but Alex Jones was right.
We'll just resort to living outside and burn down their empty houses. Fuck 'em.

Also Alex Jones is a bigger hack than anything in the Repo.
 

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