Mate. So many disks I got with games since assassin’s creed black flag were corrupt and required a download anyway, or required an online login and forced update to be able to play, making offline use of the phisical media impossible. And when they decide to stop supporting the game, online servers are shut down and the physical disk is nothing more than a beer coaster. Even when you purchase a physical game you need to register in Steam or any other gaming platform, you still just bought the rights to play their game instead of owning the game. When they don’t rant you to have these rights anymore, they can remove the game from your library whenever they want. Again, disk is just a coaster. Even physical products are not really your ownership. BMW hiding car features ON YOUR CAR behind a paywall, phone companies selling you the right to use their phone with their service, bloatware and restrictions on there. A fridge YOU BOUGHT which stops working if you do not update or have it constantly online, which uploads gigabytes of your data daily, which force shows ads. Like, what the fuck. You don’t own shit anymore, even if you paid for a physical product.
Discs for PlayStation and Xbox are able to be traded or bought used. You can bring them to a friend’s house and play on their console. No discs means that is no longer possible. That’s what people are upset about.
I thought Sony wanted to link disc codes to accounts, so resale won’t be possible anymore. Microsoft also wanted to change things so sharing and resale can’t happen.
Me: “One game please.”
Retail Salesperson: “Here’s a QR code to download the game.”
Me: “If I didn’t want physical media, I could get it without your QR code.”
Retail Salesperson: “How would you manage that?”
Me: 🏴☠️
have a sticker printer, tempted to print qr codes for game’s fit-girl page and hit GameStop
Bring back bootleg street dealing with this one neat trick.
Gamestop Stockholders Hate It!
Even outside of that, why would I go in person to a store just to buy a thing I could get for the same amount of money instantly without leaving the house? Like, I know that’s pretty much the point of the digital stores, but retail stores playing along as if they aren’t the biggest dups is baffling to watch.
Alright, you guys. Real talk:
Delete your PlayStation account. Keep your PS5 and exclusively buy discs. Once that console breaks and can’t be repaired, fuck it. Don’t get the PS6.
From now on, only buy games you own. Steam doesn’t count. GOG is a great starting point. Piracy is also a valid alternative.
Pirate the game, burn it into a disk.
I want a digital licensed copy. I mean for movies it would be extremely cool, if we could have a drive, where you could download bought movies on but not copy off of. Then you would own a copy on this drive to be watched. Maybe you could even exchange titles from drive to drive but it is encrypted with its own operating system, so that you cannot copy it off of the drive only move it from licensed drive to licensed drive, if there is an exchange interest. By that I don’t have unnecessary bulky DVDs or CDs but at the same time an owned copy that could last endlessly… but companies prefer people to log in and stream or have a game only through the steam log in…
it’s perfect (the meme)
Honest question: Has anyone invented or proposed a DRM system that would actually meet the needs of both media producers and consumers? We know they can prevent that mass dissemination of media to protect producers/artists/etc., but those DRM methods always have some major drawbacks for consumers and ultimately make the product unusable after a certain period of time or have incredibly annoying restrictions. I can’t quite wrap my mind around how you could have both, but I also haven’t put a lot of time into thinking about it.
No, because it doesn’t exist. If one person can view, hear, experience a form of media then unless it’s somehow fed directly into their brain in a way that ensures only they can decode the signal then it’s always going to be possible to record and copy.
As long as the visual, aural, and other necessary data for the media experience are being transmitted through physical space to be picked up by human sensory organs you’re always going to be able to copy those things.
Howd you get my husband in a meme? 😉
Game is 2TB 🤷
"$80?
In 2007 it was $50, then $60.
grabs baseball bat
Let’s slash prices back to the 1995 Sears catalog. Link to the Past. Price…"
…ss…sixty dollars!
“…bullshit”
no, really, look
“No, that’s… what?!”
Link to the Past was on a cartridge which was more expensive to manufacture. Look at PS1 and other games that came on CD. Now they don’t even have to pay to manufacture discs and keep them stocks in physical stores. Also compare how small the market was compared to now. Compare how the entire game was on the disc instead of being sold in pieces.
What people are going to do about this? If you don’t boycott or protest in a way that will effect the companies in large scale, you will get a download code. Same thing goes for switch 2, that people complained and still bought, and this goes for any gaming device or not. Call me crazy, call clown, call me communist, but people should cut them off, stop, stop buying, its your voice, our voice, we pay and the do hear us.
Boycotting doesn’t work. The masses don’t care. All it can do is make your own life better (which, don’t get me wrong, I’m all for).
Boycotting absolutely works, it simply requires a large enough amount of consumers to boycott that it affects the company’s bottom line more than they stand to gain by following through with the reason folks are boycotting.
Bingo, I stopped spending money on Nintendo shit, I stopped paying for Spotify, Netflix etc etc. When they do anti consumer shit, otherwise, what’s the point? It just keeps getting worse and worse, because they still see record profits.
A physical disk with
code.txtyou say?If the code is not attached to an online account that you can´t detach from, sure. Because that means I can sell that game later or even borrow it to a friend.
disk
Optical disc, not a magnetic disk.
I think both are technically just as valid, the use is only tradition
No one is short for discus and the other is short for diskette.
Disk comes from the Greek word Diskos. And Disc from the French word Disque.
Diskette means little disk. Floppy disks existed before diskettes.
Diskette comes from cassette which had been used in photography long before describing tapes and just meant that it had a built in protective case.
The -ette in cassette and diskette is a diminutive suffix. Cassette means little box. Casse is French for box. And thus Diskette means little disk, not disk in a protective case. IBM introduced the term to mean floppy disks smaller than their 8” floppy disks
All data should be provided to me in the form of 5-1/2’ floppies.
I want a floppy disk shaped SSD so bad
Ok, I know you meant inch, but you used the notation for feet, and that is absolutely hilarious to imagine a five and a half foot wide floppy disk!!!
~I literally LOL’d.~
108 Rare and Bizarre Media Types - The 8-Bit Guy
Here’s a disk that will trigger a download, how’s that sound
Good enough, at least it can be traded and sold!
Until they decide your unique disc ID is tied to your account and you have to sell your entire account to someone to sell the game
In that case it’d be the same as a digital version, but with the added inconvenience of having to put the disc in.
Correct.
It’s like the game version of Kroger still technically having cashiers!
Punish me harder, daddy.
Sort of the joke of all this. I remember the Good Ole Days of installing a Blizzard game and then getting a gigabyte or more of Day One updates before I could start playing.
Yeah, those were steps in the slow boil.
I mean, broadly speaking, I appreciate that companies can periodically patch and re-balance games. The internet has been amazing for the modding community as well. You’d have never seen Counterstrike or Team Fortress go mainstream without the ability to digitally distribute content like this.
But you do get this impulse to release a product in what is effectively a large-scale beta test and then slap band-aids on it until it’s playable. Or give up support on it if it doesn’t sell well on launch.
Are you my management? No stop it.
What, you don’t want your Nintendo cartridge key? Which gives you permission to download the thing you already bought to have a physical copy of in case Nintendo servers go down at any point???
