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GameStop Boss Says Disc Drives Should Be Required On Game Consoles (www.gamespot.com)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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"It would be great if people had to buy more of the thing," says guy who makes money selling the thing.

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[–] cloudless@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah keep that mindset and follow Blockbuster's fate.

[–] Guildo@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Besides Gamestop - I think it could be important. What if the servers shut up in the future? How do you get your purchased games?

[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You download them and back them up. What happens if the disc is scratched or your buddy drops a blunt on it?

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If they're purely digital and drmed you can't back them up.

[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 1 points 1 year ago

I have backups of my PS4, with games downloaded from the PS store that say different.

Heck any Playstation disc games tries multiple times to get you to save it to the HDD.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The DRM is the key part of that. So the answer is DRM-free, not physical media. Especially since all games get patched these days.

[–] Guildo@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't buy all games at GOG.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

You can't buy all games on disc either. Also, not every game on Steam has DRM.

[–] Oneeightnine@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your buddy buys you a new disk....

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's still being published or if a second hand copy doesn't cost more than your buddy's annual wage.

[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

What fucking second hand games are you buying? Beloved classics aren't that expensive.

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

In retrospect there were some advantages to Blockbuster compared to streaming services where stuff disappears every day.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Six months ago Cohen didn't give a flying fuck about disc drives because he was selling the idea that you would soon buy all your games from GameStop on an NFT marketplace that they recently had to shut down because the SEC is cracking down on NFTs as Securities.

He gives a fuck now because his golden goose got shot in the head.