So, games are just digital data garbage and everyone is forced to accept this. You can't own physical copies of games anymore since hard media & discs are going away. You need to be logged in to access these stupid games as well. If you move to a different country, go off the grid, or simply just cancel your internet & go dark, why the hell can't you play games you ALREADY purchased? I absolutely hate it. Why even bother buying new consoles or games? You're fricking RENTING these things to be able to temporarily access them as downloads. I want to DOWNLOAD and KEEP a game in my console, then if I decide to REMOVE my internet permanently, STILL have access to these games that I already bought. Holy fricking shit. Why did this happen? How did we allow this to get this bad?
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>How did we allow this to get this bad?
Just wait until the morons come pouring in here telling you that they do actually own their steam games.
Physical is only a concern on consoles because it's the only shred of control console users have. Not an issue on PC.
It's not an issue because you willingly own nothing. The perfect consumer cuck. What was your point exactly?
That drm free on pc is by far the closest you get to ownership where you can do whatever you want with it as much as you want, transfer, copy, modify, etc. Buying into shitty locked down console ecosystems is the perfect consumer cuck.
Your drm free file is literally worthless.
Please see what happens when you attempt to sell a steam account. Put yours on ebay right now, link it and then I will proceed to report it. We will see how it ends. I don't care to argue with brain dead third worlders that do the bidding of every major publisher any further.
It's worth an infinite number of copies of that game that I can modify however I want. Your disc is literal plastic trash that you'd have no control over and have to pray some collector is interested in 20+ years later.
kek I probably have a useless sports game somewhere worth 3 cents but it's still more valuable than everything you "own."
And how much did you pay for that worthless sports game to begin with? You're in the red.
>Please see what happens when you attempt to sell a steam account
Never had any issues with it. Ages ago I used to make a separate account per each game I got physically and then I just included the login/password with the purchase. My current account is one I've purchased from some random dude back in 2010
I own my Steam games, if Steam claims otherwise that's their problem
If they block me from the service or take away anything I am simply going to pirate the game and keep it on my drive forever and there's nothing they can do to stop it
And valve as a private company realizes that, which is why they're still a good service. Investors are the kind of morons who'd see how big steam is and start wondering how they could wring all the consumers for what they're worth not realizing just how easy it would be for people to ditch steam. The moment steam removes a paid game from someone's library it would cause a massive shitfit that would erode a ton of trust.
Serious question, in practical archival and long term access terms why is a dvd/blu ray any better than a download? Its not like you can use a disc on a emulator any easier, you still need to deal with DRM. If you care about long term access, consoles and discs are not gonna be the answer.
Nta but theres no real difference, its still data that needs to be read. The future of archiving games is digital, unless you think consoles dont break down.
i don't really care, my steam library is still accessable 17 years later
This, and if steam ever goes full evil I'll just pirate.
DRM free on PC is the closest you can get to owning your games. Physical is a meme.
Tpbp. OP crying about nothing lol.
>noooo a few shitter bargain bin games got delisted!!!
You can still download and play them if you bought them not that it's happened to any of my games.
>too stubborn to use win10
>too moronic to switch to linux
Win7 trannies are mentally ill. I have zero empathy for people still running a malware infested shithole os.
Unless you decided to not change your os, which is your right to do so
If you are not using Linux, you have no business playing PC games in the first place.
It's fair if he doesn't want to change operating systems, he should, however as he already is likely very aware of accept the consequences of using a 15 year old operating system even beyond the innate consequences of obligatory obsoletion.
Did you not see that steam has been trying to wrestle the PC gaming space from Microsoft for almost 10 years now?
If you still use Windows that's fine, but you can't really complain when you're fricked over if you have a way out.
I am aware, I already use linux. I'm just saying if he's still using windows 7 he should be aware of the detriments to the user experience he's going to incur because of it.
What's funny is I've seen people show that Proton+Linux works for some older Steam games that don't even work past Windows 7.
Steam deserves to win that wrestling match.
>obligatory obsoletion
Microsoft flipping consumers the bird and forcing them into OSs they loaded up with cancer because they know they can get away with it isn't obligatory, but I digress.
Well yeah, it isn't obligatory for microsoft, it's a deliberate decision to double dip on customers.
For the end user, it's mostly obligatory.
the EU will step in and put a stop to all this. You'll be able to re-sell digital games. They're going hard on monopolies and anti-consumer practices. Just look at Apple.
>digital is bad because what if [hypothetical extreme scenario that will never happen]
what if i come to your house and murder you and your whole family? none of you will be able to access their physical games then which makes them useless, darn it
>it will never hap-
all your Discovery content is linked to your Discovery account, you can still access it just not on playstation, not to mention that the licencing issues between sony and warner has been solved already, this is months year old moron
>they were able to block it and remotely delete it from my system
>no way would they ever pull the rug out from under me again
fake
cope
>The future is "digital only"
true
Digital only has nothing to do with physical media. You don't own most games you buy on physical media in 2k24.
This
>The future is "digital only", not ownership of media. You WON'T own game discs anymore.
GOOD!
Yes, you stupid idiots
Technology changes. Nothing is forever
Grow up . YOU can't do anything about it
oh I can, I'm already doing
I will pirate EVERYTHING and the israelites will get NOTHING
>why does no one make games i like??
you won't trick me israelite, they already stopped making good games when I was still paying for shit
>physicalgays still making shit up
>hehe I won't pay for games I'll just steal them
>wtf why won't they make games for me anymore
>what do you mean they make games for people who buy them
>j-j-j-j-jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeews
Actual subhuman behavior.
The frick are you whining about. You can download games to your console and they still work. I have an old ps4 with 20 games on it, unplugged from the internet and it works fine today, and it’ll still work in ten years the same way.
nintendo and sony will never stop supporting physical.
But even with PS5 discs doesn't the game go on the SSD? It's not true physical.
>buy physical sony game
>have to download the entire game to the hard drive before it can be played
>cannot play downloaded game without disc in drive
What's the fricking point? Why not just skip the disc requirement and get digital?
buy a Atari 5200.
buy David Crane's Fishing Derby.
want to play Fishing Derby 43 years later
>just plug it into the Atari 5200
>game starts in less than a second, cool multiplayer action with the bros, no updates, no online connection
heh, maybe someday Modern games will have this convenience,
because you can buy physical games at a fair price at any time you want instead of being FOMO'd into buying games during the one or two limited times a year they go on discount digitally
also you can lend and borrow physical games
I don't understand the concern so long as the data is stored locally, where it can be cracked, reverse engineered and redistributed. For instance, nearly every MMO shuttered in the past two decades has a private server or two. Only cloud games are a genuine concern for continued access.
I was out with friends and found out they pay for youtube premium. It was horrifying how world become.
it is a little worrying but a lot of people just pirate shit all the time anyways
what does YT premium even do?
You only see ads that are baked into the video because google doesn't pay people unless they're chosen specifically by them
Iirc youtube premium doesn't even guarantee ad free these days either.
that's so moronic. i just use brave browser on my phone and i can even listen to youtube videos while on stand by mode. i haven't seen an add on youtube in almost a decade aside from that one time they tried to crack down on add blockers and failed miserably.
idk, i feel there are other ways to enjoy music for free.
I have had all my favorite albums on youtube for over a decade. Youtube music is great for me when I go outside for a jog.
try using brave.
ad free w/ youtube music. I have it too since it's cheap in my country.
I haven't owned game discs since like 2009 anyway, haven't owned an optical drive for like 10 years too
Who gives a shit you dumb consoleBlack person
I just won't buy videogames anymore and just pirate them.
>b-but what about people complaining of new game being garbage
Don't care, there are more than 3 decades of videogamesvto play and my backlog is aleady full as frick.
This industry can die for all I care
Just pirate everything, there is zero benefit to paying for digital goods
Thank you for saying the truth.
not my problem
This. Had a GOG account since they began in 2008. I buy all my games there and before someone says "but they can still close your account", not. my. problem.
I've got every installer backed up to a NAS which backs up to another NAS 500 miles away every night.
>I've got every installer backed up to a NAS which backs up to another NAS 500 miles away every night.
You could've got the exact same installers for free
>piretagays LITERALLY unable to shut the frick up about pirating even when no one asked
Every time.
Get a real personality homosexuals.
or I could just download the game for free
gogtards are the dumbest morons on the internet lol
The future is slop being streamed to you from some massive cloud server farm, so Chuds can't pirate the newest garbage from whatever Microsoft-owned Diversityhomosexual Studios developed it
I tried to warn you all years ago, but none of you listened or cared and embraced this dark future with open arms.
Suck my dick. Embrace piracy at this point, that's my only advice
I dont think so because the only appeal of consoles is physical copies.
And consoles are shit now. The only one worth owning these days is Nintendo, and who knows how long that'll last
It's not worth owning nintendo either.
More than the others at elast
I would argue since you can emulate all their games in a better state for free they're the least worth it of the bunch.
Not to the normalgay. To the normalgay consoles are worth owning because they're unironically braindead. They don't give a shit about physical, if anything physical is just more inconvenience they have to wait for or go out of their way to get and pay taxes on. For them, turning a system on and immediately playing a game is worth sacrificing absolutely everything else.
Doesn’t matter. There are no new games worth owning.
I actually regard this whole discussion as so infantile because it's a solved problem (the solution is piracy) and "physical" releases of video games more than any other kind of media are unironically just delivery devices for digital objects
You're a stupid Black person if you value binary digits on an optical disc over binary digits on a mass storage device. It's not like it's a fricking book where there's a real physical object you can interact with without a computer intermediary. Please install Launchbox and satisfy your curation/collection autism that way like a normal person.
Or just post that annoying smiling israelite at me that's definitely an argument
What do you expect? People are morons and have no idea about the data storages. They unironically think discs are safer than hard drives or SSDs. They think the data cannot be transferred from one data storage to another.
People are fricking stupid and they put value on things with no value.
I mean why would you ever choose no disk instead of disk. To me it so ound like you're seething. Idk why. Maybe because you don't have a cool collection of physical games just air and time wasted. Maybe it's because your medical insurance refuses to pay for your sex change operation.
I have a nice book collection that occupies the same space that in your home is consumed by literally worthless plastic.
I appreciate that you copped to it not being about "le REALLY owning le games and le owning le corpos," you're just a subhuman collectorBlack person.
This. If my library of well over a thousand games I've accumulated over 20 years was physical I'd have to dedicate an entire fricking room to it and tons of them wouldn't work due to the drm of the time or simple rot. Not to mention I would've had to pay far, far more.
What makes you think I give a frick about your gay romance novel collection. My games actually have value unlike your worthless pieces of paper lmao.
lol
Nobody gives a frick about that shit except you, old man. Enjoy your investment in e-waste, I'm sure it'll sell for a big profit one day like my mom's beanie babies hahahaha
It's not even about money. It's about getting what you pay for. These companies can supply me with a physical copy for 70 dollars so I demand that they do. They aren't getting out of this. I'm holding them accountable and getting everything I'm owed.
>why don't you want physical media to clutter up your home and eventually lose the ability to be functional due to the physical item deteriorating over time
Water is renewable. Wasting good freshwater on it when they could do the same submersion in salt water is moronic.
>point out that physical games will decay and entropy ensures that you never really "own" a physical game
>sit back and enjoy hours of cope from physicalgays
>the car you bought will eventually stop working
>this means you don't own it
Compared to, say, a die-cast simulacrum of the same vehicle? yeah.
Shame there's no proper analogy for digital v physical, or you'd be free from making these shitty ones that I'll turn around on you.
Enjoy your dead internal cartridge batteries and pinholes in your discs.
digital only is fine as long as its DRM.free. like on gog and itch. when u buy games there u get to download a drmfree offline installer thatu can install as many times on as many computers u want without having to connect to the internet. u can copy it as much as u want, put on sd card, hard drives, hell u could even burn it to a disc if u like having discs around
Not sure if it's so much "allow this to happen" as opposed to forces beyond anyones control. As much as we want, most games don't get made out of passion but are made to make profit. What else do you think was going to happen when big wigs got involved? Only a matter of time.
Newer generations only have a baseline of what they're growing up with. That standard is going to get challenged as well and their newer generations will not care either, until it happens to them or the market dies. We can't stop shit.
stop using consoles and buy your games off GOG or pirate
literally not an issue
i blame fricking Steamdrones
they idolize the fat israelite Gabe and are fricking brain dead homosexuals
Bummer, I feel so bad for you.
the fact anyone protects the literal inventors of lootboxes and paid cosmetics is mind boggling. I imagine valve has been employing shills since before the word became a meme. I bet they paid hiroshimoot to wordfilter valvedr0ne
They Litterally didn't invent those
If you're going to complain about Valve at least use complaints that are true
How's your Xbox digital collection holding up lil bro?
Ever since the creation of nation-states, “ownership” has been conditional, not absolute. Any number of authorities, private and public, have stakes in things you “own” and can take them away given the proper circumstances. The idea that you personally and absolutely “own” anything unless you’re a government is infantile.
The sooner you get this, the sooner you’ll realize the “you’ll own nothing and be happy” is at least an improvement to the constant state of misery we’re stuck in right now. Nothing short of a massive social upset will give you “ownership” in the way you want it.
jews love boiling things down to the absolute finest point of nothingness to justify why their evil is good,
>he doesn't have a 7x18TB ZFS2 array with the entire library of published vidya from NES through Dreamcast/PS2
discs are a waste of space
get with the times old man
What program? What storage you're using? How much does it cost?
Look at the image for the programs name
truenas is the software
hardware is a dell poweredge t310 i trashpicked from a customer when they upgraded to a new server
32GB ECC RAM kit was $40 on ebay (max capacity for this server unfortunately)
7x 18TB HDDs were $1261.33 on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C22T2XQ4/
it sounds like a cement mixer while the HDDs are being accessed and consumes 100~150 watts idle, peaks at a little under 300w at bootup
I wanna do something like this, i started a little collection too, i have almost every 90s cartridge vased game ever. Its really not that big, less than 500 gb because those games were so small. I think N64 alone is like 50gb.
You realize that physical copies are essentially also a license that can be revoked? PC wins another round in actually being able to own and play your games forever with piracy and emulation.
Question for digital advocates, if digital games are better for consumers then why are corporations also desperately trying to make it the only option?
example
certain physical games are now just boxes with download codes inside, PS5 discs dont hold the game but just let the console extract the files but they're kept on the system. Xbox Series S doesn't take discs, introduction of cloud consoles.
In all honesty I don't see it as desperate, it's just going along with the stream happy nature of society. EverynormalBlack person is at least subscribed to 5 streaming services, gamers will probably buy subscription codes and also might do the gamepass thing.
It could just be a result of lack of physical sales, society on a whole strives for convenience.
Because sony and microsoft know console morons will rebuy the same game for ps4 and PS5 and the ps6.
can't you transfer your libraries for those systems though?
only if the game is backwards compatible.
I haven't bought a disc game in 10 years
Cloud-based consoles have all failed.
The standard PS5 with a disc drive sells better than the digital-only PS5.
Most console games sell more physical copies than digital copies.
Indie games tend to be digital-only because they don't have the budget to manufacture physical games, yet the first thing they do if they get a success is produce a physical version.
Scanning books didn't kill books.
eReaders didn't kill books.
You're all homosexuals.
>The standard PS5 with a disc drive sells better than the digital-only PS5.
do you have a source for those numbers?
>Most console games sell more physical copies than digital copies.
literally false, but okay, whatever you believe
>Indie games tend to be digital-only because they don't have the budget to manufacture physical games, yet the first thing they do if they get a success is produce a physical version.
any proof that it is indie devs themselves doing this and not small retail publishers scooping licenses of popular indie titles to make a buck from the retail market?
>Scanning books didn't kill books.
>eReaders didn't kill books.
most people prefer reading a book while holding it instead of reading it from a digital page, its not simply ownership/collecting
for games, there is no difference in playing game when you buy it digitally vs retail, just a matter of ownership/collecting
>You're all homosexuals.
coming from an anime poster, i take that as a compliment
i buy retail games so i can sell them if i dont like them enough to keep them, for example for replaying at some point in the future
im sure whomever bought games from me was also happy to buy a good copy for relatively cheap
anyone who thinks we should kill the used games market and go all digital is either a collector of digital goods himself, and you can make of that kind of person whatever you want, or simply doesnt care for the option to sell games they bought, a permanent addition to an ever-increasing library of digital "licenses" on pc
and lmao, dont tell me you actually support console digital games, which have often been tied to specific console generations
at least steamgays have been enjoying their digital library for close to 20 years
You never owned the games on disks anyway
>But I can give them to a friend
Microsoft literally demonstrated that you couldn't.
>Microsoft literally demonstrated that you couldn't.
the used games market exists for the xbone
when did microsoft demonstrate that you couldnt?
When they had originally announced that physical games would be tied with accounts on the original xbone, and only slightly walked it back when sony made fun of them.
If you can't sell it, and it can be taken away fom you witjout your concent, you don't own it.
Legit question:
How do Piracy websites not get nuked into orbit the second people catch wind of them?
because the internet is not owned by the USA or israelites
I don't even care anymore, anyone over 35 has been telling people this since it began. The majority asked for this, convenience is king.
Games are inherently digital anyway, if you aren't keeping your own backups you're gay and a moron anyway. GaaS will never be saved, and will either become stronger than ever or die out eventually.
These things happen in cycles.
Go die on another hill, this one's full.
As a PC + Switch gamer I get so autistic about this physical/digital shit it’s infuriating. I never know what Im satisfied with, sometimes I prefer having a nice box on my shelf with the game card, other times I prefer the convenient future-proofed game in my steam library. I wish my fricking brain would make up its mind, help me Ganker
only buy exclusives for any console
always buy multiplats on pc
sometimes this doesnt work out as planned when a publisher decides to release a game on pc after the fact, ie bayonetta, vanquish, valkyria chronicles, sunset overdrive, etc
but for nintendo, you arent going to get pikmin 4 on pc ever outside of personal backups and piracy
this is mostly what I do, but sometimes I still feel as if having the game physically would be a fun way to "immortalize it" into my collection. I don't know how to explain it really, it's like having the game physically makes it feel more concrete and thus more formalized. But I'll try to resist that autism. Built a PC a couple years ago since PS5 shortages were getting too annoying and I've got a decent little library now.
>always buy multiplats on pc
No. Japanese multiplats on PC are a mess like 90% of the time. If it's not Capcom there's something wrong with your PC version. Deadly Premonition is a great example where the PS3 version of the exact same edition, the Director's Cut, is more stable being emulated than playing the PC version with fixes. Western games are the only time you should be playing multiplats on PC, and even then PC typically misses out on content.
I exclusively play japanese games and they work better on PC nearly always.
PC really only missed out on content with some 7th gen DLC/pre-order bonuses which sucks, and maybe some split screen multiplayer being removed.
for the disklets out there, has anyone gone so far as to buy a bluray writer and creating bluray back up of modern games?
tendies are laughing at you
Then apply the cracks pirates use to your legit copies.
Simple as. If you have cracked copies of the games on a harddrive and back it up reliably, then you'll always have your games and never have to worry about it again.
that's the future of the video game/media industry, which i do not care about, if there is even a small demand and craving for physical media, enthusiansts will create such things, that's where actual video games will be created, by enthusiasts for enthusiasts on physical consoles.
those that want the GAAS hellscape can keep it, i just hope they stay there.
>So, games are just digital data garbage
you will NEVER guess what's inside those "physical discs"
people still want physical movies or records of shows, plays, as long as that want exists, someone, somewhere will provide.
This cannot be stopped, no matter how much people meme about it.
>NOOO PHYSICAL IS GOING AWAY
>yes, i do pirate my games, how can you tell?
there will be nothing as chad as providing physical media in a world that is permenantly online only, when the internet goes down.
>One day when the apocalypse comes and we don't have internet I'll still be able to play Senran Kagura!
listen to yourself
>One day when the apocalypse comes and we don't have internet I'll still be able to play Senran Kagura!
Based. Sounds like true ownership to me.
>How did we allow this to get this bad?
Normies. It's always the fricking normies.
I don't own any game discs.
Can't imagine buying any of that e-waste, all my games are backed up on drives, and thanks to the tireless efforts of autists, I will be able to play all of them until the heat death of the universe.
>dies
>can't play games in the afterlife
>money stolen
>money
I didn't pay anything for any of these games.
draining lakes to provide the servers to host all your shit online is a bigger "e-waste" than a CD, a dvd or a game cartridge, server hosng is the biggest e-waste ever, E.T in the desert doesn't hold a candle to that shit, Google uses up several Billions of Gallons of water to cool their damn servers, and that's just Google
das rite, get Pwned, even in that scenario we'd created video games that would use no electricity, we create analogue leauge of legends, leaderboards and all, and you online gays, server hosters will get fricked
You are benefiting from those servers right now and they'll rot slower than your DVDs/CDs.
that's why I buy only on pc. No more console games.
>digital shit infested with drm bad
>disc infested with drm good
Falseflag drmBlack person thread
And this is only peoples fault because they are the ones that made it possible.
>Digital media
>Digital currency
>Digital wives
>Digital lives
DIGITAL LOVE
COMPUTER LOVE?!
This will just make piracy easier. That's why they want to turn every game into a service which will never work because they want every game to take up 100% of your free time. They're all fricking themselves over as fast as possible and its hilarious.
I'll just copy and paste the files, cracking the DRM if needed. If I can't do that, I'll just play old video games, or get a new hobby. Video games are a luxury, not a necessity.
I hate making accounts for everything. I always forget log in info, then lose my stuff
If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing.
I dont care I just play on PC and pirate stuff.
I just realized that the killzone liberation digital that i bought almost 2 decades ago on the psp is also on my PS5 library, wierd ass shit.
This kind of thing is inevitable sadly. That's why I'm glad I got out of gaming when I did like a year ago. Games just aren't worth it anymore and I can't be bothered to keep caring
It's not just gaming; software, TV, movies, music have been taken over by digital and physical still exist but is the minority
well I don't care about TV or movies much considering I pretty much never rewatch those unless they're classics and the classics are always available somewhere. I barely replay games unless they're really really good. I don't currently use any software that's important enough for me to care about losing. As for music I do replay a lot of music but music went digital ages ago so not much you can do. At the very least there's so much music out there you probably won't care too much if you lose a couple hundred songs to the ether. I agree that people should do more to preserve media but cmon man 9/10 people don't give a shit. We've entered the era of media being transitory. You just consume and get ready for the next piece of media. It's a conveyor belt designed to keep people addicted, spending, and hyped. People don't realize because they're arrogant and think "well that could never happen to me"
Don't worry about this shit too much man. Life goes on. You have more life to live beyond all these 1s and 0s
Oh I haven't worried for over a decade but some people are complaining like it's happening just now while it's been moving that way for a long time now.
Even if it's detrimental in the long term people will always take the option with less hassle in the short term. Not having to keep track of a bunch of CDs, DVDs, cartridges, etc was something people were happy to embrace at the time. Most people live in the moment without a care about the future. That's just how people are.
Yea sure sure these people don't care about the future meanwhile you're leaving loads of plastic after you and collect it just for the sake of it.
Well frankly my gaming collection was never that big I could fit it on 2 shelves I don't see why you'd keep games that weren't 9/10 or above. These days I don't really game at all maybe once a month. I'm okay with gaming going in the direction it's going because I've just moved onto better things
For better or worse yeah.
Convenience wins in the end and always trumps everything else for most people. Hell people will pay exorbitant fees to get food delivered to them just so they don't have to leave their house even when doing frick all.
I had to get Crash Team Racing 3 times just because the disc stopped working. And GTA SA would stuck most of the times.
There's literally nothing stopping you from making a backup of the game files on a disc. You choose not to.
th-that disc doesn't have the picture on it...
I know you're joking, but grab a sharpie and draw on it lmao
YOU CANT DO THAT
ive literally done that with old pc games
i wouldnt ever want to deal with starforce or securom again
The writing was on the wall with DLC and online co-op dying. Physical disks were slowly being made redundant with more and more chunks being reliant on off shore servers not dying. This hellscape is just another example of you morons failing to stop anything
>You won't own game discs anymore.
Good. HDDs can store a lot more and USB sticks/SD cards are just more convenient to carry around. Both for convenience and efficiency in data conservation you lose nothing by going smaller instead of purchasing discs, who often had moronic DRM or were difficult to burn.
QBittorrent utterly destroyed physicalgays
Why do Steamies keep spouting this nonsense? You gave up your discs and now you want everyone else to do the same? No I will keep buying physical and 99% of them will work fully offline. Literally fake news bullshit.
Because the trend over the years is digital sales are rising and physical is dropping
sure yea digital is more convenient to get and like blue rays and cds they will go away eventually but why do people have to make stuff up about games not being on discs when that's the case the majority of the times you buy them? Its not just a key it contains the data on it and you can sell it or buy used without the game company's approval.
I guess it depends on the game
Multiplayer only or require connection to a server doesn't matter how you got it
I assume it's based on if the game has all the data on disc/updates but some games operate fine without them and as long as it isn't mandatory.
Cope
Then become a pirate and 'hack' your console once the new one comes out
You can also just download those games you actually own You can also make backup copies of your games
Who the frick cares anyway.
The future has zero upcoming good games.
Blame zoomers that rether have "official convenience" because digital is only ok if pirating has nothing to do with it. Frick actually owning property, the glorious company have are backs and will never backstab us!
I can't recall any Switch game requiring mandatory day 1 updates to be playable.
splatoon 2 & 3
That's not the future, that's the past.
Why don’t globalists want me to own anything?
Well with software in particular it's a recurring issue that it's difficult to make it compelling for end users to purchase additional products when you've already sold them one. That, and with microsoft completely breaking the copyright system to legally erase the concept of digital ownership a lot of software developers have incredibly unreasonable personal feelings regarding end users and their rights to software being sold to them and fraudulently implied to be an indefinite lease after sale.
capital is for people
slaves work to eat
holy frick, who cares
nobody's taking your games away
they may be removed from the store sure, buy not from your library
besides, when a physical game gets pulled from the shelves over controversies it becomes a rarity a you need to fork over 100s of dollars
Someone will find a way to burn digital games onto CDs. Usually when things get bad there's always a backdoor left open somewhere. I'm not worried and no one else should be either just prepare yourself to start looking at some point for workarounds to raise a finger to corpos.
The writing has been on the wall for over a decade. As early as updates and DLC to games has been possible devs have been lazy and started doing day 1 updates that are almost required to play certain titles and your physical media has been pretty well worthless and a glorified permission slip to access all of a game.