>"kek you're still using Steam? What a homosexual!"
>"YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY!!! KLAUS SHWAB LITERALLY SAID THAT!!!"
>"uh no sweaty I'm not going to infect my battlestation with DRM *scoffs*"
>"Physical copies are superior because I get to actually hold the box. No, it's not like collecting Funko Pops."
>"Achievements, community features, modding support and accessibility are buzzwords bro"
>"Yeah I'm paying an extra $100 in rent because I needed somewhere to put all my game cartridges, boxes and consoles"
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>he doesnt have a 3-2-1 backup
lol
>Just buy a $80 2 terabyte hard drive so you can backup games bro
>No it doesn't matter that its a huge inconvenience to bring a hard drive everywhere you want to game
>Um no if I lose the hard drive its not an issue because I have another $80 hard drive bro
>>Just buy a $80 2 terabyte hard drive so you can backup games bro
if you have 2 walls full of games you have 20$ to buy a HDD for backup
if you dont care about games that much then you dont care they burned down anyway, you cant have it both ways
also you do know you can use HDDs to back up other things other than kiddie games, right kiddie?
Those backups will also go up in flames, unless you're using an off-site backup. An off-site backup is not affordable if you have a large collection game CD/DVD/BR ISOs however.
A 3-2-1 backup includes offsite. You're right that you can't really do it with disks, unless you rip them but you might as well pirate at that point.
>buying a cuckshed in some buttfrick nowhere is not affordable
I don't like people like this because they're usually "collectors" who hoard rare shit and let it just sit and deteriorate while there's a possibility of them destroying it in a fit of autistic rage because "If I can't have it nobody can".
>while there's a possibility of them destroying it in a fit of autistic rage because "If I can't have it nobody can".
are you an actual Black person?
what gives you any right to another man's property or what he does with it?
Because I believe that media is to be enjoyed by all, prick.
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I collect rare games then post images of me destroying them in retro game boards to piss off collectors who were probably waiting years to save up what I earned in days off the stock market lol
Never understood the point of collecting so much stuff
I just like to own the 20 or so games I truly like
Is Chuck and Cheese x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the SNES really so impactful on your life you need to preserve it forever in your home?
It's a millennial thing. Only millennials do this because they've been hardwired to consoom since they were children
This, Millenials went all in on muh nuhstalgia during the 2000s and 2010s and still can't let go. Newsflash, most NES/SNES games were fricking garbage.
>Newsflash
Holy reddit
People have been collecting things forever.
>coca cola merch collections
>gas station/oil/car memorabilia collections
>baseball card collections
>coin collections
>toy collections
>NASA memorabilia collections
>newspaper collections
I could keep going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and
You get the point. This isn't a generational thing.
Most of what you've described is actual rare and limited stuff, memorabilia is not produced for very long time unlike vidya and can't be digitized to be available pretty much forever.
>can’t be digitised
3D model goes brrrr
Dude its christmas and you had nothing better to do then to repost some old bait pic?
Yeah I had a fire once in my brick house and it barely went anywhere. Just destroyed a few things like carpets and curtains
Digital sucks and games and movies have already been erased from access at this point. Know where to watch The Fall 2006? Oh damn it doesn’t exist on digital despite being less than 20 years old. Most of the Asian produced cinema of the last century didn’t make it either
Digital SUCKS
who are you quoting
Says while playing in his physical PC using physical hardware. Cope steamy.
slap in the face
Collecting is such a vain pursuit. Whiped out in an hour by nature, thousands and all that time
Collecting and archiving the works of humanity is not vain at all. We only know anything concrete about the people that bothered to write down their history and build monuments
How often does that happen vs drm fricking you in the ass?
At least you're personally responsible for OP
Steamgays < Physicalbros < Pirategods
Pirates wholly are just poor. I pirate to demo a game then purchase if it’s good. I’m better than you.
thank you for your service
Why buy a game if you already have a pirated copy downloaded? You have to waste time finding the game on steam or epic or whatever storefront it may be on, enter payment details, download it, and often it will have DRM and always online requirements, reducing the performance of the game you are playing. Sometimes there can also be issues with transferring saves, so you might even have to start again at the beginning. Digital storefronts like Steam can also revoke your copy in the future if the seller/storefront decides to pull the game for whatever reason, or even stop you from accessing your entire library if they decide to stop supporting your operating system, like they did with Windows 7 recently. You may scoff at this now since you likely don't use Windows 7 yourself, but in a few years time they will probably do the same to Windows 10. You are ultimately still renting a game from whatever storefront you decide to buy it from, as is written in the contract. The only people that truly own their games are pirates and physical users.
So in the end, what is the point in buying games if you already know how to pirate games? I don't care if you can afford it, it's still an inconvenience to you just to waste $60 or $30 or $10 or however much you spend on a game. You would never flush a 10 dollar bill down the toilet even if you can afford it. Is it because of the sense of moral righteousness you get when giving away your money to large corporations? In that case, it would be a lot less hassle to simply make a donation to Valve/Epic/whatever storefront and the company you are buying games from, without having to reinstall an inferior copy. Although donating an equivalent amount to a charity would probably be a preferrable option if it's about morals for you.
I didn’t read any of that but I want to fund developers who make good games. Pirating gives me longer than the pathetic 2 hour trial steam gives you
There is no guarantee that buying a good game will lead to the developer making more good games in the future. Plenty of developers go on to make shitty games after having made some good ones, and a lot of indie devs don't even make any more games after publishing their first one. If you really want to fund good games, then save the money you would have spent on video games, pirate them instead, and donate directly to a kickstarter that looks promising. That way you know for sure exactly what game your money is being spent on, and that all of your money is going towards development of a game rather than some of it going towards a second yatch for a rich executive.
Kickstarter games are shit though, even when previously good devs make one alone (eg Bloodstained) they are bad. The teams are what make quality eg Japan Studio
I’d love to just directly donate though to proper studios
A lot of great games were funded through Kickstarter, like Hollow Knight, A Hat In Time, Superhot, Shovel Knight, etc. Some Kickstarter games are shit, just like many non-Kickstart games are shit. At least with something like Kickstarter you can determine for yourself based on description, screenshots, videos, interviews, and demos if you think the games is worth donating to or not. If you had pirated games for 5 years and then donated $500 to any of these projects, you would have had a much more substantial impact on contributing to great games being made than if you spent $1000 over 5 years buying games. Not to mention all the personal benefits to yourself I mentioned in
everything you listed are shit
I personally enjoyed all those games but perhaps we simply have different tastes in video games. I don't know what kind of games you like, but most likely at least one game you played and enjoyed has been funded via crowdfunding.
Most indies are hot garbage and those you listed are no exception. They are like hobby projects compared to pro studio-made games
>christmas housefires
Some can't learn from the mistakes of others.
house fires are an uniquely American thing
tis better to have owned and lost than to have never owned at all
you're what we call a homosexual
Ganker is the only place where homosexuals are proud of renting everything
My friend had a house fire years ago and lost a huge collection of rare Dreamcast and PS2 games. He ended up getting a job with the insurance company and now is the "nerd shit" specialist.
He's rebuilt a lot of his collection but some of the games he lost I don't think he'll ever get back.
Just dont have a house fire lmao
As someone who has never had a house fire, I've never had to try to not have a housefire
If you are not in position of power nothing you own is really yours. So whatever. Physical copy gays and gold gays are deluding themselves that if time comes they will not be robbed or killed because of reasons.
Who are you quoting?
Just buy an optiplex with an old amd gpu and emulate everything on a crt.