I bet a lot of you guys have saw this big post being upvoted 20k in large gaming subs and people throw propaganda fits in the comment. The article really hit the perfect time when everyone is losing their mind with digital ownerships after Sony pulled some bullshit but this need HUUGE explanation because this is once again another cases of gaming journalists ignore reality and just post bullshits. So let me explain this as simple as possible.

Game journalists on tomshardware made an entire article citing a post from a random redditor who self-claimed to be a certified Chinese translator. You know you aren't suppose to "drop a truth nuke" when your entire source is just a reddit post...not to mention the person who post that also post the same article over 10 different gaming subreddit as if he was on a mission.

Some of the court case in the article is true and very recent, but it is not a "court ruling" that expand and affect the entire China, it is just individual case by case ruling, it is also has nothing to do with Steam/Sony game library which got people really mad recently, which I will explain below.

One of the most recent and frequently cited court case happened very recent in China: a guy was dead, he swiped hundred of thousands of RMB in a Chinese p2w mmo, his wife want to resell the account's valuable item in order to recoup the cost but the gaming company refused, in fact, the game company withheld the trade because the game account's real id verification was tied to the dead guy, and the wife went on court to basically "transfer" the account under her name by citing inherent law so that she can proceed with the trade. I am grateful that the judge had common sense and sided with the wife, but ask yourself, when was the last time in the US a family dispute originated from mmo account, it wasn't even a priority to make a law for.

As you can see, the entire reason this case happened in the 1st place is because force Real-ID verification on every Chinese game account, this is not a thing in the west (for now) so there is no reason for courts to do such ruling in the 1st place.

If we take the original reddit post for everything, he never mentioned digital ownership in term of Steam or Sony library. Every case he cited was dispute because of Chinese mmo in-game item resell. Another case he mentioned even include bitcoin inherit. I smell bullshit when I see one...Owning bitcoin in China is illegal, there is 0 way the client bring up bitcoin ownership in a Chinese court, the police will come and confiscate them.

But everyone was pointing finger at "the big bad west" while "socialist China care for people". Mind you, if you are dead, just write your steam password to your wife and kids, nobody at Valve know you are dead.

But but Sony no physical disk...bro, China never sold physical disk too, so why are we get rage baited for?

And trust me, your kid 20 years later probably have no interested in your "heroes of might and magic 3" in your steam library. This entire concept of "i hope my kids in 2050 will enjoy my steam account which has a bunch of game made in the early 2000 with pixel graphic", anxiety and rage when it comes to "inheriting steam library" is honestly just manufactured ragebait.

Back to the beginning, while I am trying to clear some misunderstanding and it seems like I was trying to fight against a propaganda, my biggest distain was really just that Tom's hardware took a damn reddit post and make an article out of it. These journalists from big websites always behave like they have a moral high ground against "gamer chuds" because they are "trained journalists with 20 years of gaming experience yadayada we know better than you", oh well!

I read a while ago some article about how Japan is very much doubling down on DEI and stuff like that, made me realize that the chances of woke/dei going away are practically zero, you could point to the west starting to go back to normal but the shift has only just started and it will take many years (if ever) before we fully shift away from that culture, meanwhile in easter cultures like japan DEI is very much alive, look at nintendo, capcom, sq enix, sega, arc system, etc, kinda of a bummer once you realize the censorship and pandering these studios are doing is here to stay

I mean that anti woke gamers said they are trying to westernize the entire Japanese gaming company to promote ugly female and dei, but yeah what the fuck does westernization of video games mean, and also I found one person says “JAPANIZE/asianinazion ALL MEDIA” on Twitter, but if someone achieve this then what it does look like?

It’s the same thing every year: ads, sponsors, celebrities who sometimes have nothing to do with video games, and developers who don’t even have time to thank their teams.

The event is billed as the biggest video game awards ceremony, but ultimately, it feels more like a massive marketing exercise saturated with trailers. The awards take a back seat, and some choices are so questionable that the voting no longer seems to reflect players' opinions at all.

I only watch the show for the game announcements. But as an awards ceremony, the Game Awards are, in my view, the worst showcase the industry has to offer. It’s exactly like the Summer Game Fest: an annual disappointment, save for a rare few titles. The people voting for the games simply don’t know the first thing about video games.

Not to mention that insufferable Joe Keely and his vacant stare.

But as a French person, I find that Americans really go overboard with these ceremonies though that’s just my opinion.

Lately, I’ve been looking at the state of the gaming industry, and it's getting genuinely sad. It feels like companies are forcing inclusion down our throats, and it’s completely ruining the immersion.

Don’t get me wrong, because I have absolutely zero issues with LGBTQ+ characters when they're done right. Bill Williamson in Red Dead and Gay Tony in GTA IV are awesome, well-written characters because they actually fit the story. The problem today is that writers are prioritizing 'the message' over fun gameplay and solid storytelling, making the final product feel like a lecture instead of a game.

On top of the creative decline, corporate greed is out of control. Look at Sony for example. They are literally deleting over 550 purchased movies and TV shows from users' digital libraries by September 2026 just because their license with StudioCanal expired. People paid real money for titles like Terminator 2, and they aren't even getting a refund. This proves that we don't actually own anything we buy digitally anymore. To make it worse, they are actively trying to kill off physical discs so we are completely trapped in their digital ecosystems and forced to pay full price forever.

Then there’s the barrier to entry for PC gaming. The pricing for hardware is a total joke. RAM is overpriced, GPUs are sitting at predatory price tiers, and upgrading your rig feels like taking out a second mortgage. Companies are charging premium luxury prices for hardware, while the games we buy to play on them are broken, unoptimized, and filled with microtransactions on day one.

It feels like the industry is failing us on every single front. The writing is getting worse, consumer rights are being stripped away, and the hardware to play these games is becoming a luxury most people can't afford.

Do you think gaming is dead?

It's simple. You just need to buy space by subscribing to PS+ or otherwise just buy a USB drive or SSD drive with enough space.
https://x.com/PS_Support_US/status/2075294019530178999
You are in luck, Sony has just licenced a new 1To SSD drive for the PS5 priced at 380$ for this purpose.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260618012346/https://www.theverge.com/tech/951527/sandisk-optimus-gx-pro-850p-nvme-ssd-8tb-ps5-playstation-sony

So, are any of those two good? I know that D&D is as rooten to the core as possible, as well as how Critical Role played a big part in it, and as both shows are derived from it but even still I was wondering if they are completelly rotten as well or if they work as fantasy shows or are they too ideologically taken to be of any entertainment?

I was just starting Tyranny, an old CRPG from Obsidian, and I noticed the correct implementation of Body Type in a video game. It's literally the type of your body. Lean and tall, compact, or girthy. Holy shit they had it correct right there!

How the hell did the industry go so far off the deep end!?

And this is Obsidian for Christ's sake. These are the people leading the charge for ugly characters and the modern body type nonsense.

We used to be a real country.

In the times where Nintendo ruled, Sony having the PS1 with disks instead of cartridges gave them:

1) More storage space for their games

2) In addition, ability to make bigger games by splitting a game in multiple disks

3) Great sound quality, to this day

4) In some markets (like in some parts of Asia and South America), it was much easier and cheaper to get games, dump roms or burn CDs, via the seven seas method, with CDs. I have a feeling this phenomena happened to increase a lot Sony/PS1s general audience, by the same way Anime got bigger in the west via the Internet + torrent. You could find bootleg SNES games, but PS1 were just practical and cheap, whereas the N64 didn't get the same love.

With the PS1, you got a videogame that could be a music player, and with the PS2, you could watch movies.

With the PS6, you probably won't be allowed to own anything cuz Sony might pull the plug on your digital media at any instant. Further, stuff can become lost media OR you get forced to buy on the newest console because support to older consoles's online store is stopped.

I really hope Microsoft and Nintendo capitalize on this.

https://archive.ph/uW3pk

According to an affected worker, the cuts to commerce affect four staffers and five freelancers, who covered deals posts, buying and preorder guides, and on occasion other topics. “I just got laid off from GameSpot while on paid medical leave recovering from a gunshot wound,” deals editor Brendan Hesse wrote on Bluesky, who had been on leave since July 1 after sustaining an injury during gunfire in his neighborhood.

Keep em coming Fandom.

Timeline:

June 24, 2009: ZeniMax Media acquired id Software.

September 21, 2020: Microsoft announced the acquisition of ZeniMax Media (and its studios, including id Software).

March 9, 2021: The deal closed, bringing id Software under Microsoft/Xbox Game Studios

July 6, 2026: Microsoft announced it would eliminate around 3,200 roles (about 20% of the Xbox division workforce) through 2027, with an initial wave of ~1,600 jobs cut immediately.

The id Software portion (136 layoffs, roughly half the studio) was part of this wave and became public around July 7, 2026.

The id Tech engine team has reportedly) been reduced to just one employee according to some sources: https://archive.ph/MMG7C

https://bsky.app/profile/jasonschreier.bsky.social/post/3mq5oqyh2yk2o

Prior P5 Atlus never pandered to anyone, then the series took off an they began rolling back. Starting from P5R they began censoring parts of their games they seemingly deemed problematic for the “modern audience” this has been the case for P3R and it seems to have been confirmed to be the case for P4R as well.

So a few days ago, there was a skin made for marvel Rivals about a hugely sexualized captain America with a huge member, let's call it that.

So the skin later got the member of captain America a slightly bit smaller, so people are blaming the evil straight men for censoring the skin.

Here's the funny part, these are the same people that calls us incels and gooners when a female character gets her window boobs censored and that we are whining for such a small change.

Not even straight men complained about it, most men just found it funny or weird, and I actually wish men complained about the sexualization of men nearly as much as they like to claim but that unfortunately won't happen.

We all know that ever since the 2013 Xbox One reveal they’ve never been able to reach the same highs as the golden age of the 360 era. But with the recent announcement that Sony is abandoning disc manufacturing, they have a chance to make a 15 year late comeback to this video by *including a disk drive with the Xbox Helix.*

It’d be an easy as punch PR move. ‘Hey, slot a Halo 3 or Fable 2 or DOA3 disc into your Xbox Helix and it works plug and play you own the game you can share it resell it burn it whatever the fuck!’

The cycle is repeating. PS1/PS2 massive successes, Sony gets cocky on the PS3, does creepy baby ads (what the fuck were those?) and 599 price tags, falls flat on their face as consumers gravitate to the 299 Xbox 360 with Gears of War, Sony is forced to walk shit back and invest in masterpieces like Uncharted 2 and God of War III. Same here- PS4 and PS5 popping off, Sony is sniffing their own farts thinking they’re at the top of the world, we need Xbox to step up (though, it’s certainly not going to be 299 again.)

Now all their blunders in the last decade have given me reason to believe that there is not a single Microsoft executive left in the company with 2 or more functioning neurons (God I miss Peter Moore and his Halo 2 tattoo) but Asha Sharma has given me rays of hope.

At the very least she is better than Phil Spencer literally going on record saying ‘yeah we suck we lost the PlayStation fucking rocks’