I’m pretty shocked people still want physical media, but whatever. I think we can tackle the licensing and lock-in issues with digital medial without pearl-clutching physical media as if it weren’t riddled with its own problems.
physical media offers protections from corporate abuse/greed
Does it though? It used to a long time ago but aren’t a lot of discs for games just blocked if you’re not connected to the internet to get required upgrades?
Even if that’s not much of a thing yet, I fear it will be.
Sure, in an ideal world, buying a key means its yours, but were not there. That’s my gripe. Today, you pay full price for a game. And next year the studio says, too fucking bad, its gone. Now you paid money for something that was taken from you. Its not pearl clutching, its an issue of ownership
Which problems would those be, exactly? Because I can still play Combat or Yar’s Revenge or even history’s most godawful version of Pac Man on my Atari VCS right now if I wanted to. That’s a 44 year old game at the time of writing, for anyone not keeping score at home.
Go try to play, I don’t know, Babylon’s Fall on your PS4 right now and let me know how that works out for you. Or try to track down a copy of Demons Age if you missed it when it came out.
I’m pretty shocked people still want physical media, but whatever. I think we can tackle the licensing and lock-in issues with digital medial without pearl-clutching physical media as if it weren’t riddled with its own problems.
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Well put.
Does it though? It used to a long time ago but aren’t a lot of discs for games just blocked if you’re not connected to the internet to get required upgrades?
Even if that’s not much of a thing yet, I fear it will be.
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Sure, in an ideal world, buying a key means its yours, but were not there. That’s my gripe. Today, you pay full price for a game. And next year the studio says, too fucking bad, its gone. Now you paid money for something that was taken from you. Its not pearl clutching, its an issue of ownership
Which problems would those be, exactly? Because I can still play Combat or Yar’s Revenge or even history’s most godawful version of Pac Man on my Atari VCS right now if I wanted to. That’s a 44 year old game at the time of writing, for anyone not keeping score at home.
Go try to play, I don’t know, Babylon’s Fall on your PS4 right now and let me know how that works out for you. Or try to track down a copy of Demons Age if you missed it when it came out.
This isnt an arguement for physical media ,its an arguement against drm
Nothing is stoping sony from requireing internet connection + makeing it tied to an account so you cannot be sell it second hand
Non of what you said is inherant to the medium