Wow. This three decade old movie is perfect for our times.
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No, it's perfect for the mid 90s. It's just that the sort of experience it depicted hasn't really changed since then.
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Here’s a disk that will trigger a download, how’s that sound
Sort of the joke of all this. I remember the Good Ole Days of installing a Blizzard game and then getting a gigabyte or more of Day One updates before I could start playing.
Yeah, those were steps in the slow boil.
I mean, broadly speaking, I appreciate that companies can periodically patch and re-balance games. The internet has been amazing for the modding community as well. You'd have never seen Counterstrike or Team Fortress go mainstream without the ability to digitally distribute content like this.
But you do get this impulse to release a product in what is effectively a large-scale beta test and then slap band-aids on it until it's playable. Or give up support on it if it doesn't sell well on launch.
Good enough, at least it can be traded and sold!
Until they decide your unique disc ID is tied to your account and you have to sell your entire account to someone to sell the game
In that case it'd be the same as a digital version, but with the added inconvenience of having to put the disc in.
Correct.
It’s like the game version of Kroger still technically having cashiers!
Punish me harder, daddy.
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What, you don’t want your Nintendo cartridge key? Which gives you permission to download the thing you already bought to have a physical copy of in case Nintendo servers go down at any point???
What people are going to do about this? If you don't boycott or protest in a way that will effect the companies in large scale, you will get a download code. Same thing goes for switch 2, that people complained and still bought, and this goes for any gaming device or not. Call me crazy, call clown, call me communist, but people should cut them off, stop, stop buying, its your voice, our voice, we pay and the do hear us.
Bingo, I stopped spending money on Nintendo shit, I stopped paying for Spotify, Netflix etc etc. When they do anti consumer shit, otherwise, what's the point? It just keeps getting worse and worse, because they still see record profits.
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Me: "One game please."
Retail Salesperson: "Here's a QR code to download the game."
Me: "If I didn't want physical media, I could get it without your QR code."
Retail Salesperson: "How would you manage that?"
Me: 🏴☠️
have a sticker printer, tempted to print qr codes for game's fit-girl page and hit GameStop
Bring back bootleg street dealing with this one neat trick.
Gamestop Stockholders Hate It!
Even outside of that, why would I go in person to a store just to buy a thing I could get for the same amount of money instantly without leaving the house? Like, I know that's pretty much the point of the digital stores, but retail stores playing along as if they aren't the biggest dupes is baffling to watch.
Game is 2TB 🤷
disk
Optical disc, not a magnetic disk.
All data should be provided to me in the form of 5-1/2' floppies.
Ok, I know you meant inch, but you used the notation for feet, and that is absolutely hilarious to imagine a five and a half foot wide floppy disk!!!
~I literally LOL’d.~
I want a floppy disk shaped SSD so bad
I think both are technically just as valid, the use is only tradition
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Mate. So many disks I got with games since assassin's creed black flag were corrupt and required a download anyway, or required an online login and forced update to be able to play, making offline use of the physical media impossible. And when they decide to stop supporting the game, online servers are shut down and the physical disk is nothing more than a beer coaster. Even when you purchase a physical game you need to register in Steam or any other gaming platform, you still just bought the rights to play their game instead of owning the game. When they don't rant you to have these rights anymore, they can remove the game from your library whenever they want. Again, disk is just a coaster. Even physical products are not really your ownership. BMW hiding car features ON YOUR CAR behind a paywall, phone companies selling you the right to use their phone with their service, bloatware and restrictions on there. A fridge YOU BOUGHT which stops working if you do not update or have it constantly online, which uploads gigabytes of your data daily, which force shows ads. Like, what the fuck. You don't own shit anymore, even if you paid for a physical product.
Discs for PlayStation and Xbox are able to be traded or bought used. You can bring them to a friend's house and play on their console. No discs means that is no longer possible. That's what people are upset about.
I thought Sony wanted to link disc codes to accounts, so resale won't be possible anymore. Microsoft also wanted to change things so sharing and resale can't happen.
"$80?
In 2007 it was $50, then $60.
grabs baseball bat
Let's slash prices back to the 1995 Sears catalog. Link to the Past. Price..."
...ss..sixty dollars!
"...bullshit"
no, really, look
"No, that's... what?!"
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Howd you get my husband in a meme? 😉
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