Thread 717065963

The controversy over "game key cards" is the stupidest shit ever. Every game these days has patches and updates anyway. And what kind of cardboard box are you living out of if you can't connect your Switch to the internet?

It's soulless

I still own physical games regardless if I patch them or not. Key cards will be useless in 20 years.

I have dozens of Switch, PS4 and PS5 games and none of them require downloads to be playable

Demoralization shill

>>717065963 (OP)
It's dishonest and a step in the wrong direction. I don't buy games or preserve games so idc

Why do people download games on Steam and it's totally fine, but they absolutely need a box taking up space on their shelf for console games?

>>717065963 (OP)
Its just jeets, brazilians and chang brokies that now can't afford the games or console. If you can't afford $100 a month for a new game, you are broke!

>>717066040
you can still download shit on your Wii that you bought 2 decades ago

>>717065963 (OP)

Have you ever considered that people who wanted to buy physical didnt want to bloat up their SD card with a full size game when storage is expensive enough?

>>717066317
they assume physical DRM isn't as bad as digital, even though it's both

>>717065963 (OP)
ok cool didnt read Im not going to buy games then

>>717066356
For now do you really think they will let you do that 50 years from now? I mean Microsoft killed off the Xbox 360 marketplace and they are a much bigger company then Nintendo

>>717065963 (OP)
As if you couldn't mod your console when the stores get shut down and play those games anyways lmao

And no, Nintendo can't brick your console, that is a myth brought up by zoomer illiterates who couldn't properly read an EULA

Im not uploading govt ID just to play a "physical" game i bought

>>717066317
Because Valve fanboys are cultists while others have standards

it's still impressive how much goofy shit you can get from these old cartoons, all the expressions and everything

>>717065963 (OP)
Nintendo has a long history of taking down their old online system when a new console comes out. What guarantee do I have that I'll be able to download the games I rent from them in the future?

>>717065963 (OP)
I hate game key cards but they barely affect me because I have a PS5 and a Switch 2.
Though the more exclusives we get over time, the more annoying it'll become.
I just hope that the next Fire Emblem or Xenoblade isn't a game key card

>>717067948
First party games seem to be good about not using them. I don't really give a shit about ports so I've not been affected by key cards yet.

>>717065963 (OP)
Its a developers first solution with no thought to the consumer in the deal.
Developers dont want to pay for storage in game carts because they cant or wont optimize for shit. With every game being over 64gbs, they pass on the storage costs to you.

>>717068084
this

>>717068084
To further the convo as to why they wont optimize for shit, ill explain.
They make these games 100gb plus to take up space to take up your time. To monopolize your time. You wont uninstall it because it took too long to install it. This is in hopes you keep their game locked and loaded to pay all the time. Your switch becomes a call of duty machine. Nothing more.

So these game carts are for nintendo to court these developers, making the cost lower to get their games on the shelf, and theyre made where nintendo doesnt challange developers making their games 100gb plus. Developers get all your space, nintendo gets you to buy their console. Thats it. Its a win win for them, not for you.

>>717068424
actually it makes me less liekly to buy the game in the irst place

>>717066040
Worse, in 12 years

>>717066360
That's not the main problem they complain about the key cartridges even if it's indeed a legitimate concern, but PS4 and PS5 physicals do pretty much the thing by installing the entire game data into the main storage so the Internet outrage shouldn't be that much of a thing. No, it's about how they imagine the download servers will be suddenly going down despite they have no problem buying digital shit on Steam, PSN or the Eshop itself and that none of the past purchases have been ever revoked. ''Pure'' physical releases where you don't download anything whatsoever (be a patch or DLCs) are very rare now, digital is pretty much the future right now whatever these people like it or not.

>>717068729
Yeah, cuz youre not a normie.
Its for the unsuspecting consumer.
If more people were like you or me, we wouldnt be in this mess. Voting with our wallets can only go so far. Tyranny of thr majority as our founding fathers have said. Hopefully the trend dies soon and developers start to optimize, but it will likely be left to smaller developers to do so.

>>717065963 (OP)
you will own nothing

>>717066317
I mean, when it comes to pc, people dont care that much about steam DRM because they know that eventually their favourite games will be cracked and they will be free to download and preserve

>>717065963 (OP)
Because it's a retarded solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
If the game cards let you play the game without the card in and maybe had to be re-checked once every once in awhile that'd be fine, but you have a physical object gatekeeping access to digital content this way at all times.

The appeal of physical copies beyond ownership is the fact that you don't need to download an entire game and have it taking up space. Game Key Cards are the worst aspects of physical and digital rolled into one format.

>>717069438
>The appeal of physical copies beyond ownership is the fact that you don't need to download an entire game and have it taking up space
But Playstation 4 & 5 physical releases do the same difference by installing the entire game into the main storage (while downloading all the updates in the process)
You also have to be extremely braindead to parrot the "Game Key Cards are the worst aspects of physical and digital rolled into one format" line like a NPC while being oblivious of the fact you can rent or sell those things since they aren't bound to any account. Much like the "You own nothing" over digital games, that meme is stupid as well.

>>717065963 (OP)
If you're buying a physical copy of the game you want a physical copy of the game. What's hard to understand retard?

>>717065963 (OP)
maybe I don't WANT to connect my switch to the internet

Haha, I told you guys

physical copies are just licence keys

>>717065963 (OP)
I don't have a broadband connection, so I just pirate shit from public connections. I'd love to just buy a disc, but oh well

>>717065963 (OP)
false, I own tons of games on Shitch as well as PS4 that either have no patches at all, or the patches are optional.

doesitplay.com

keep coping steamie

>>717069057
>but PS4 and PS5 physicals do pretty much the thing by installing the entire game data into the main storage
So?
I can delete and reinstall at any moment, WITHOUT HAVING TO ASK FAT GABE FOR APPROVAL

>>717070126
doesitplay.com does not play for me dot com

>>717070126
>this website
>when there are multiple entries of the same game (Minecraft Vita, Dragon Quest 11S, Crysis 2 Remastered on Switch) sharing the same region and SKU, thus inflating the numbers
>when the entries are already low in numbers which is not even representative of the wider market (Vita list for example is barely 2 pages long)
>when they claim a base 1.00 game on the physical is fine while conveniently not mentioning all the bug fixes or added contents present in later updates
That's quite the misinfo website

>>717070272
dot org

>>717070285
>THERE IS A BUG SOMEWHERE THAT'S IRRELEVANT
>THAT MATTERS
no, it doesn't.
they actually play through the game. When that works fine, they mark it as download not required.

>>717070187
So you can with game key cartridges. I still fail to see the outrage with those despite I have zero intention to buy them, but I guess online folks love to invent problems out of schizophrenia

>>717070356
no
as soon as shit servers are down, the GAY key is WORTHLESS
fuck you
it's literally Steam slop

>>717070351
Minecraft Vita can work "fine" on 1.00 version for example but you still miss out all the added items/packs and all the bug fixes.
Same with Soul Sacrifice Delta adding pacts and new archfiends in later updates while the cartridge is released in an early version.
1.00 version can work for plenty of games but that's nowhere the optimal experience

>>717070432
>as soon as shit servers are down
That's where your entire argument falls apart though, proving you're mentally ill instead

>>717070469
>Mineslop
>there's free DLC, that's le bad
>Vita unironically

>>717070523
>arguing with the schizo macaco

>>717070523
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/27560/~/wii-shop-channel-discontinuation

However, for the time being you may continue to re-download content you have purchased or transfer that content from a Wii system to a Wii U system. Be aware that these features will eventually end at a future date.
>for the time being
>will eventually end
kys dishonest gay key shill

stick your gay key shit where the sun doesn't shin, into your bum

>>717070678
The Wii doesn't have digital games. Just a handful of minigames, and they let you transfer them to a Wii u.
Nice try though macaco, but as per usual, your and your low iq fell short
Oh, and before your monkey ass starts sperging again, the Wii u article does not say they are shutting down the ability to download purchased games

Why didn't Nintendo do this?

>$60 game key card
>$80 full game on card

???

>>717066356
Nintendo ds

>>717071073
>The Wii doesn't have digital games.
hahahaha

>but the Wii
https://www.nintendo.com/au/support/articles/wii-u-and-nintendo-3ds-eshop-discontinuation/
>For the foreseeable future

same fucking deal, you fucking dishonest liar

>>717071129
Why doesn't Nintendo commit sudoku?
>yes, I will now buy Shitch 2 carts from LRG for $80

It's astonishingly disheartening to see so many people who know better, choose to lick daddy montendo boot
I can and want to get a switch 2, but refuse to because of their practices and ideologies that been on full bloom lately
>HUURRR JUST DON'T BE A POOR BROWN SNOY
it shows just the demographic nintendo is aiming to appeal to, and makes me eant one even less.

>>717065963 (OP)
You're a jew

>>717071415
Sigh, I know, I know, macaco, English isn't your forte, but "the foreseeable future" is what eloquent people use when they mean "forever until something drastic happens that would impede our ability to continue the service"

Hope that helped, and consider yourself slightly more educated

>>717071446
>>717071538
You can't even afford a working frontal lobe, macaco

>>717071846
>they mean forever
why don't they write forever then, shill?

>>717066356
Until Nintendo decides they need the switch 3 to sell better and shuts it down

>>717071846
the fact that they shut down purchasing means they will shut it down completely, because they make zero money on it.
and for no reason.
simple as that

>>717066356
they know that people will get upset when they even shut redownloads off.
Snoy already did so.
they just wait for the right moment.

them shutting down purchases doesn't make any sense already, but shows that they are going to shut it down, otherwise they would allow you to buy games on older platforms. There is zero reason to not do that.
Just put these games up on the web store, which already exists.

>>717067351
>And no, Nintendo can't brick your console, that is a myth brought up by zoomer illiterates who couldn't properly read an EULA
Then why is Brazil suing them for it like they did Sony a few years back?

>>717071846
t. retarded ESL

https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/reasonably-foreseeable-future

Reasonably foreseeable future means a time frame that may be beyond the immediate or imminent, but not longer than a time frame as to which reasonably certain judgments about a person's likely behavior can be reached.

TL;DR we can shut it down at any time we want to.

I buy physical because I want permanence. Patches or not, if I buy a physical game, in 99% of cases I do not need any online connection to make it run. I value that, as these consoles often lose their online services within less than two decades. I already cannot buy new 3DS games on the eShop and I'm unsure if I can even still redownload the digital ones I did buy.

Game Key Cards do not offer permanence as they are still reliant on an active online service.

The only value of the Game Key Card is that it can be resold like a physical game and it has a physical presence . I don't buy physical for either of those things. I buy physical for the above-described permanence. Now that 90% of digital third party Switch games are game key cards, I simply do not have a suitable option for how I'd like to buy those games.

Is this site sponsored by Nintendo or something with how much /v/ shills and defends the fuck out of them.
Seriously, I've started using altchans more instead because of how insufferable and completely inorganic this shilling is. Only board worth a damn left on this site since the hack is /t/.