Many physical releases of games now are just for show. Games as a service means you're required to connect to a 3rd party server at some point.
You can hold a disk in your hands all you wish, but you can't actually play it because the server that hosted 90% of the actual game was shut down years ago.
An increasing number of physical discs don't even have the actual game written to them. Only a few lines of code to tell your Xbox or whatever to start downloading the game from the store. Buying a newer game might be meaningless if you don't have an internet connection.
Digital media owned lock and key by shitty media companies? Yeah it sucks
Rips and archives lovingly maintained and shared by regular people? Pretty much necessary since physical media and old machines will eventually stop working and be useless as anything other than museum pieces
Like cool, you have one of the 200 remaining copies of some obscure Mega Drive game. You know what's even cooler? Being able to download it and an emulator and being able to play it on any machine in 5 minutes
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Many physical releases of games now are just for show. Games as a service means you're required to connect to a 3rd party server at some point.
You can hold a disk in your hands all you wish, but you can't actually play it because the server that hosted 90% of the actual game was shut down years ago.
An increasing number of physical discs don't even have the actual game written to them. Only a few lines of code to tell your Xbox or whatever to start downloading the game from the store. Buying a newer game might be meaningless if you don't have an internet connection.
Digital media owned lock and key by shitty media companies? Yeah it sucks
Rips and archives lovingly maintained and shared by regular people? Pretty much necessary since physical media and old machines will eventually stop working and be useless as anything other than museum pieces
Like cool, you have one of the 200 remaining copies of some obscure Mega Drive game. You know what's even cooler? Being able to download it and an emulator and being able to play it on any machine in 5 minutes
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Aren't most games only partially on-disk these days (assuming they even get a physical release)?
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Yeah even switch games will sell you the cartridges and still require you to download the rest of the game off the internet in some cases
They usually buy the smaller cartridges to make more money from this shit, too.