The Flourishing VA

Whether it’s saving physical media and saving Mass Effect from cancellation, we need to be loud, and show demand and interest, and we must never give up🚀 There’s an estimated 3 billion gamers out there in some shape or form, we outnumber and overpower any corporations. We are the customers, we hold the money and voting with our wallets and voices are our very basic rights. So #SaveMassEffect Save physical media and digital ownership Demand what’s in YOUR best interest, without worrying about profitability, trends, and whatever BS stories they tried to sell you to take more money from and sell you low quality games NO DISC 💿 NO BUY

Four months ago today, Sony announced their predatory plan to end physical media🚀 Here’s a reminder of the dangers of a digital-only future, which gullible fan boys and paid sock puppet-media conveniently overlooks: ❌No game ownership ❌No preservation ❌No competition > high prices ❌Regional & dynamic pricing > high prices ❌No refund if a game is removed from PSN ❌Reliance on Sony’s bad customer support ❌Region locked code-in-box games ❌Total reliance on networks/internet ❌64% of the world has no PSN > no games ❌If account is lost > all your games are lost ❌If you move to another country, there is no way to change regions > need to repurchase all your games, per Sony’s terms 👉You aren’t responsible for the profitability of studios and publishers. 👉You won’t owe studios whose games you don’t like any money 👉You shouldn’t put the benefits of studio or publisher above your own best interest, because they are not your friends, they are a business and they’ve emphasized clearly how self-serving they all are So save us the white-knighting for corporations and don’t let gaming being ruined more than it already has been. NO DISC 💿 NO BUY

US Representative Ritchie Torres from New York City announced that he will introduce the “Power To The Players Act” citing that digital video games are a rental disguises as a sale🚀 He explained: "When you pay for a game, you should own it. Consumers must have the right to own, the right to play, and the right to transfer the games they buy. A game that can be taken away the moment a company pulls the plug is not a purchase. It is a rental disguised as a sale.” If it is passed into law, the bill will protect our ability to own and play purchased games. Source: @RitchieTorres Office It’s about time the firm hand of the law took a stand towards the normalized exploitation of gamers under the excuse of “the company has the right to revoke access at any time for any reason without compensation” and actually preserved players’ rights to own the games they buy, and to be compensated in case said game was removed or account was disabled. There can never be full trust in digital games when you aren’t even able to own what you’re buying. In any case, physical media must be preserved, because it will always be the only and most reliable way to play games and have agency over their usage, and they must contain the ENTIRE game, whether on one disc and four even. NO DISC 💿 NO BUY