Thread 718888231

Why is everyone so obsessed with digital games nowadays? What happened to actually PHYSICALLY OWNING your games?

Zoomer are poor and have no room for physical.

>>718888231 (OP)
>lose disc or disc gets cracked/too damaged to be read
>automatically 60 dollars down the drain
Thats why

>>718888364
That is 100% on the user. How hard is it to take care of your shit? Just put the game back in the case when you're done.

>>718888231 (OP)
fucking gamestop

>>718888231 (OP)
lazyness really, same reason you get a lot of people who keep ordering in fast food despite it being a worse experience than driving there and buying it yourself.
and companies love pushing it because they earn more money per sale not having to worry about manufacturing.

>>718888231 (OP)
>how do you do fellow kids.jpeg

marketing thread

>>718888231 (OP)
No one is obsessed with it: there is no alternative.
Even the "physical" Switch 2 games are just licenses

>>718888364
>buy a book
>lose it outside and ruined in rain
>omg books should all be digital!

I owe nothing and i'm happy

>>718888231 (OP)
Cluttering up your home with plastic doesn't offer a real benefit, you have to download a patch for the game to be playable anyway. If you want to own your games just be a piratechad.

>>718888327
Guys is this real? H-how are the bins doing that?

>>718888682
You're a broke ass shit fuck that still lives with its parents.

>>718888702
I do this and it works well enough.

>>718888231 (OP) what happened to the 8 track player nigga? Where's the 8 Track player in modern cars?

isn't that the faggot that likes farts?

>>718888821
And you're a rich fag who's only real path in life is getting shot in the back of the head so the FBI can arrest a white man.

>>718888821
Living with family was normal throughout most of human history, you uneduted retarded fuckwit.

Globohomo wants everyone out ASAP so they have no support, and can barely afford to live. It pays to stay home for a few extra years after finishing school, gives you a massive financial advantage over those who don't.

Continue being a good goy I guess. Faggot.

>>718888231 (OP)
>Gamestop deathly afraid of being irrelevant.
Good fucking riddance. Stopped going to that trash store by 2008.

>>718888821
>You're a broke ass shit fuck

>>718888231 (OP)
you have to redownload it if an error occurs

>>718888364
this. took great care of my shit. ps1 discs struggling, n64/gameboy carts that don't save... the onward march of entropy has killed my enthusiasm for physical.
and anyone claiming they've stopped entropy is delusional

>>718888231 (OP)
Because people who actually lived with "owning" physical instead of talking about owning physical got tired of constantly dealing with customer support and waiting months for a shitty Bethesda clone RPG they can't refund without waiting for another half a year for the jeets at customer support to understand what you want to do. God forbid the retard repackaging and reselling dics didn't check for the manual so you're stuck without a verification code and you have to deal with customer support and wait for another half a year to get a new manual.

>>718888930
>>718888942
Stay mad while I enjoy my house THAT I OWN all to myself. I even have a room just to hold all my plastic.

>>718888231 (OP)
Fuck gamestop

>>718888702
>Cluttering up your home with plastic doesn't offer a real benefit
It's more convenient than fucking around with digital storage
>you have to download a patch for the game to be playable anyway
No, not really

>>718888231 (OP)
The future is that you exist to BUY something.
Entertainment becomes another tool to extract money from you.
It would be wasteful to let you own something when the money is being circulated only at top level.

>Install game onto hard disk
>You now own the game phsyically
You understand that a CD is just a weaker HDD disk right? Every "physical" game you buy now is a license, you need to install it on their storefront with DRM.

>>718889136
cool chart. is that about the wii library?

physical is gay

before digital physical games on PC were a pain in the ass and consoles are side machines that i don't care to have a bunch of plastic taking up space for

>>718888327
FPBP

>>718888231 (OP)
Unironically, there's no benefit in using a disc over owning a digital license to a game in the current gen. If they take the game down from the store, you can still re-download it and any DLC you got before they did it; and if it's multiplayer game that got the servers shut down, or Destniy 2, you disc is effectively useless.

>>718889250
yeah, the fight to keep a bunch of fucking cds lying around is legit just console boomer nostalgia. i am sure they will bitch about it for the rest of their miserable lives.

>>718889058
Cool, now the microplastics can enter your testicles faster and cause infertility so your retardation can't contaminate future generations.

>>718888231 (OP)
We've reached the point where companies are posting le meme arrow on Xitter and attaching /v/ OC.

>>718889309
some people just have a fetish for the theoretical concept of "ownership". Even if there's no practical benefit whatsoever, they're happy that the word "owns" can be applied. These are the same kind of idiots that fall for the scam where people sell them real estate on the moon or ownership of a star.

>>718889481
reddit OC*
This place hasn't been 4chan for a long time now. Lurking is pointless because they're just mimicking mannerisms from an older generation of newfags addicted to making ten thousand posts a day.

>>718888231 (OP)
I used to get mad trim by bringing girls over and showing them my collection of games on discs.
I'd slide my finger across the shelf like *FRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT* and those panties would drop in a nanosecond.

>>718889365
That's fine. I wasn't planning on having kids anyway. Can't stand the little shits.

>>718889309
Kinda this, modern games are such garbage that they're unplayable without months or years of updates.
Which is to say you shouldn't buy them in the first place.

>>718888231 (OP)
>Why is everyone so obsessed with digital games nowadays?
It's a much easier model for distributers and developers so it's the only option they present to consumers and therefore the only thing most consumers even think to want.

This has it's benefits. A game fully distributed on a CD can never be updated so any bugs that ship with the game exist in perpetuity in the game. I have never, and will never, complete Enter the Matrix without cheatcodes because the helicopter tower fight is forever broken.

This has it's drawbacks. Every single new release is destined to be riddled with bugs because developers now have a fraction of the pressure to fix them before "shipping".

Either way you as the consumer never truly "owned" the video game and most games shipped on disks required a valid license key to play.

>>718888231 (OP)
I don't even buy physical books now. I buy media for the experience itself, not to have a trophy to collect and show off.

>>718888231 (OP)
I don't have enough room for physical games.

>>718889640
uh huh

>>718889678
Probably for the best. You got any cool figures to go with your wall of plastic and obsolete storage mediums?

>>718889741
i still buy physical books, since reading them is fundamentally a different experience from reading on a kindle or my phone

>>718889886
I do indeed.

>>718889827
watamern

>digital
loicence
>physical
loicence (disc edition)
>pirated
you now truly own your game

>Physical game in 2025
>Still needs to connect to an online server to download the "rest of the game" or otherwise just make sure the copy is legit
Besides, the only difference between physical and "digital" these days is what is the carrier of the data, because data on the disc is still "digital" and can be reliably ripped into a digital format that can be read by the computer ala old game ISOs and emulators.

>>718890010
it's just kind of a pain compared to digital, and i'm willing to pay the convenience fee if steam has it. if the license gets yoinked for whatever reason, whateves, I'll pirate it then for archival purposes, but since that path always exists as an option for me i don't feel a strong compulsion to take the inconvenient route just to feel like i really own it

>>718888231 (OP)
>physical
Imagine being a poor console baby. Been digital only since Steam added third party.

>>718888231 (OP)
>Gamestop
As if they even sell games anymore.

>>718888231 (OP)
>>718888327
/thread
suck my dick you off-topic spammers

>sun explodes and kills all of humanity and obliterates earth
>money stolen
so unfair

>>718889648
Great idea. We'll steal other sites content and claim it as our own

>>718890329
back to your containment board /pol/tard

not my problem, lol

>>718888231 (OP)
Convenience. My entire Switch library is digital because I didn't want to have to faff around with the little game cards all the time.

Every other system I own I've softmodded and loaded up with pirated games (god bless Russian torrent sites) so the value of physical games has been somewhat lost on me

>>718889594
Yeah 4chan has been dead for ages, it's newfags mimicking newfags who think they knew why people posted the way they did prior to 2007.

>>718888231 (OP)
I thought gamestop was an NFT marketplace now

>>718891492
Pretty sure it's just selling pokemon cards and funko pop dolls these days

>>718888231 (OP)
Nigga, I buy games by the kilo in bundles

>>718888364
God damn you zoomers are retarded, Just return it to the store and get a new one.

>>718888364
Don't forget
>house burns down but have a digital library
>can re-access those games on another device
>house burns down but have a physical library and those games are all in the house
>lost all of those games and their saved data forever
>have to repurchase all of them

>>718891835
>Return a broken game to the store
>Expect to get a 1:1 credit for the game
Grew up in the 90's, literally never happened.

>>718891876
How many times has your house burned down? Do you even know anyone whose house burned down? Also, insurance would pay for replacement.

tbqecth with you, even physical "ownership" is no longer ownership in many cases

>>718888231 (OP)
>
>
If you buy a digital game you own a license which lets you download a copy of this game via official servers.
>
Selling vidya is a thirdie behavior and you can share digital games.
>
Server shut down is inevitable for every digital service. You still get to keep the copy of a game that you've already downloaded, every corpo kike who tells you that you don't own it is lying and can be sued. Also, physical is not preservation, *piracy* and emultaion is. However, blocking private servers, custom clients and emulation is the real problem.

I get the impression that physicalfags care more about collecting plastic than gaming.

>>718888327
>>718888769
>>718889279
>>718890329
Uh oh get fucked kikes looks like a popular gaming topic to me! Larry Fink likes little boys by the way.

>>718890381
>>/reddit/ is that way faggot

>>718892006
It could happen at any time, today, tomorrow, in a week, in a month, in a year, it doesn't matter. You must always prepare for the worse situations in life in case they ever come.

>>718888327
FPBP
op is a fag
every other post but mine is made by retards that have gay sex

>>718888231 (OP)
Why does everyone fucking use meme arrows these days?

>>718888231 (OP)
>pay 15 dollars for ticket to see a movie
>can't share it o
blah blah

>>718892338
You didn't answer the question. Also, insurance is preparation.

>>718892394
Lots of low IQ emotional reactions to the twitter screenshot but very few to the content of it. I wonder why.

>>718892405
4chan mentality has spread too far. Retard greentext even when it doesn't greentext and also in the wrong applications.

>>718892471
>Lots of reactions to this shit I just took on your plate, but very few to the content of my pile of shit. I wonder why.

>>718888231 (OP)
>greentexting outside of 4chan
Fucking Gamestop

>>718892405
>meme arrows
hilarity chevrons

>>718892405
4chan belongs to everybody incel.

>>718888231 (OP)
technically a physical game is also just a license. The difference is companies can't do shit to prevent you from using it when the license expires.

>>718892405
normies use it to look edgy without actually being edgy. People here use it as a means to make up strawmans.

>>718889481
Is it really unbelievable that some social media manager for a game store would lurk on /v/?

>be me
>decide to check out my local gamestop since it's been years I've set foot in gamestop
>go in
>literally just a huge wall of shitty Funko Pops, some misc. "gaming" merch and assorted pokemon/yugioh/mtg cards
>meanwhile the actual PS5/Xbox/Switch games occupy 1 (one) tiny shelf in the entire store

v-video... games...?

>>718888231 (OP)
>What happened
Convenience happened. Convenience always wins, and yes i am willing to take a worse deal if it means more convenience for me.

>>718892584
What about the opinion that you should own your games is shit?
I’ll give you a minute to calm down you spastic dumbfuck.

>>718892936
Ever since the GME Wall Street stock shit happened, Gamestop literally rebranded itself as some sort of gaming social space. I have no fucking clue why either.

>>718893072
Not owning your digital game is not convenient for the customer though.
Man this is a really astroturfed conversation, you guys are incredibly obvious.

>>718888541
>people who keep ordering in fast food despite it being a worse experience than driving there and buying it yourself.
How the fuck could that ever be the case?

>>718888231 (OP)
FUCKING GA-
...oh wait that's actually based

>>718889136
>It's more convenient than fucking around with digital storage
No it isn't.

>>718893180
The ubereats drivers remind me that poor people exist and sometimes the brief interaction with them is awkward and makes me feel self-conscious
I would rather just get it myself

>buy physical game
>im totally gonna play this again someday
>sits in my closet for 20 years

>>718888231 (OP)
>Buy steam game
>copy the files to another fold
>apply goldberg/crack
>its yours forever

wow so many retards on here.

All games are digital, unless you're talking about Connect 4 or or something.

>>718892936
They basically sent all their Used Game inventory to their warehouses so they can sell that shit online. All you see in gamestop now are just the most recently released games. Thats why all their shelves of games are bare as fuck, 90% of their inventory is in their warehouses, not the stores

Cyberspace bro

It's ultimately just a digital file and in 90% of cases your physical copy requires a day 1 patch anyway.

Buying a DRM-less physical version that works on PC and is feature complete as part of a special edition? Makes sense, but those are rare.

>>718888652
Theres no alternative to not owning a digital game?
Wait no thats not right, the alternative is owning a digital game.
Weird how you framed it as this sort of definitive black and white matter of fact statement that benefits the interests of corporations at the detriment of consumers and pretended there was no alternative. Weird that you did that.

>>718893172
Nobody's trying to sell you anything retardbro. If you want to fantasize and delude yourself about an imaginary ideal feel free to do so. It's your life.

>>718893172
I can go to the store to buy and own a game or i can click 2 buttons without getting up from my chair and own a license which is also cheaper. Physical can't win.

Reading this thread is depressing. You faggots deserve to not own your games.

>>718893425
Its an imaginary ideal to own what you purchase? You’re fucking stupid, and a gay cocksucking bitch too. Speak less because you’re not wirth listening to.

>>718893493
That's not the conversation you're having. It's digital versus physical. Glad to help but tell your handler next time because I won't be here all day.

>>718893456
No, dumbfuck. The game you buy physically at the store is also just a license. Thats the point. Jesus you “people” are completely fucked. It doesnt matter where or by what means you purchase a product, for some reason you stupid fucking morons seem to think that video games are magically the only entertainment product you’re not allowed to own now for some reason.
Shut the fuck up idiots.

>>718893248
Maybe if you have a boat load of digital storage, and even then it might not be enough with how big games keep getting.

>>718893484
But I do own my games.

>>718893691
See this >>718893582
and suck my long white cock you stupid nigger.

>>718893017
Physical fags. How do we reply to this?

>>718893691
You're way too dumb to enter this topic. Pipe down and sit while the adults are talking.

>>718893763
It's increadibly obvious that you're not even remotely white lady.

>>718888231 (OP)
I dunno steamie, you tell me. PC MASTERKEK, Gaben's cum diet

>>718892195
THANK YOU DORO

>>718888231 (OP)
It would be nice to own a physical copy of your favourite games but unfortunately it's very rare or non existent for PC DVD rom

>>718888231 (OP)
I love Gamestop. The only store I ever liked in my life.

>>718893809
You shut the fuck up. Gamestop stock was the only thing that stopped globohomo from making you a slave already.

>>718893790
The core of your argument is that you inherently own physical. That is not true in 2025.
Its also more economically efficient and beneficial for both parties to sell/buy digitally.
Glad those fucking basics are established now, the only point if discussion remains whether its a license or a product.
It is a product.
Anu questions, cocksucking retarded faggot?

>>718891876
>has to resort to something so uncommon, it's probably happened to zero people ITT
Guess you should just own nothing, since you can be shot and killed at any time.

>>718889365
>namefag thinks his untermensch genes aren't also a dead end
lol

>>718888231 (OP)
We live in smaller pods now and have to conserve space.

>>718888231 (OP)
explain to me how my hard drive full of video games is less physical than your disc collection physicalfags

>>718894123
My argument is actually that digital is more convenient than physical. You'd know this if you were capable of reading above a subsaharan level. The conversation you're trying to force in order to showcase your awesome subsaharan understanding of the world is not the conversation we were having. The conversation we were having is if a physical distribution is better than digital. Now I can see that you're very emotionally invested and banked your ego on your narrative so I'll give you my answer to your question despite this not being the conversation you butted into. I would prefer to own my games and not a license. Are you happy now lad? I would also like to park my car wherever I want and modify it with cosmetic flamethrowers without the police on my ass but I can't because I only own the license to my car. In this case I would prefer a physical representation of a car but a digital representation in a video game is also ok. Now shoo shoo. Take your hysteric estrogenic interrogation to your ghetto pals.

I do physically own my games, in the form of ssds in my computer, and external hard drives in my drawer. Now that game cover design is shit and day one disc versions of games are unplayable, physical copies lost all meaning.

>>718888231 (OP)
I used to be a physicalfag, but fuck me I can't go back.
>Anime/Manga
I own a far larger physical collection of most things than everyone else here, especially this. Digital is better.
Fuck changing discs, and I'd rather have the manga's two pages laid out on my monitor rather than having to spread open the actual book and get it under the right lighting.
Also, I do use exclusively remuxes or high quality encodes, so I'm not skimping on quality like a lot of you faggots.
>Music
MP3 players won decades ago. I own vinyl, never listen to it, display purposes only, same with cassettes.
>Books
An ereader can hold every book I want to read at a given moment, and I can read them in book equivalent quality (on the eyes) without worrying about surrounding lighting for the experience. Digital wins.
>Video games
Digital fucking wins.
I don't want to own several consoles or have to hoard a bunch of fucking cheap plastic cases for a video game. I'd rather just have the games I'm playing at the moment installed and ready to go, I want to be able to switch from Final Fantasy V to Dragon Quest V to Tetris at a moment's notice. This isn't a dopamine thing, it's a convenience thing, and the convenience part is that I click a single button and it happens, and I don't have all this gay shit on my shelf.

The only physical games I have left are
>My complete Resident Evil collection spanning from 1996 to 2023 (not buying anymore physical copies for this, I'm done)
>My Silent Hill 1-4 physical copies
>My old Japanese imports of MGS3's Subsistence box set and the 20th Anniversary set
>Dragon Quest V for the Super Famicom
>Kinnikuman 2nd Generations for the GameCube
>My original imports of the PS3 RGG titles
>a complete Dragon Quest DS/3DS collection
That is all I will ever want or need. Digital is preferable, always.

>>718892195
Thank you DORO

>be me
>2077
>let’s show little Muttricio the games from when I was a kid
>pop in my ps5 black spiderman disc
>please connect to psn
>japan no longer exists
>tfw

>>718894631
Physical is dead because its economically inefficient for both parties. Your conversation is stupid and a waste of time, so I was reorienting it to the only aspect of it that could possibly matter: ownership.
Hope that helps zoomnigger dipshit.

>>718888231 (OP)
>gamestop posting this when they've been closing stores and making more room for merch and novelty shit for years, even after they brought back in-store retro games
I bought a copy of Ape Escape from them recently for $20. They also held a charity auction recently where they sold a fucking used staple, a broken Switch 2, and their CEO's underwear for a quarter of a million dollars. The least they could do is print the Ape Escape box art on their generic case slip so they could at least pretend to give a shit.

>>718893180
always arrives cold and is way more expensive.
also they never give me my dips

>>718895240
Uh huh. Interesting theory. Do go on. Your thoughts are very interesting.

>>718888231 (OP)
Because steam happened. Also my desktop and laptop havent had cd roms since 2013.

>>718888231 (OP)
Going outside is a chore for ZoomGods and waiting for delivery is a bore, we want it now.

>>718894940
Based and this pilled

>>718888673
They should all be digital and so should games but they should not be ONLY digital. Digital media is a great way for content preservation, physical is a great way for cultural preservation.

>>718888682
>>718888930
>>718888930
>>718888942
Broke ass shit fuck bitch dumbs get off my shit your brown ESL ESL ESL thirdies POORFAG LOOOOOOOOOOOOL

>>718895807
is this how really the best way for shitskins to cope with their low iq? acting even more retarded than they are and making a fool of themselves on the internet?

PHYSICAL
IS
DEAD
GET OVER IT ALREADY YOU STUPID FUCKING CHUDS

owening a CD drive is a sign of poverty

>>718895894
Brownies ESL ESL ESL your poor LOOOOOOOOOOOL broke bitch shit fuck LOOOOOOOL your brown

Owning anything physical is a sign of extreme poverty why are there so many broke bitches on this site????

>>718895991
Oh noes I am now convinced of the errors of my ways and I will now spend the enterety of my life shilling for physical.

>>718888821
Materialistic hands wrote this post.

>>718888359
physical games are dying.

>complains about digital games
>most likely has gigabytes music folders instead of CDs
Fuck off nigger.

>>718896769
Why should I pay for music?

I have no fucking space in my room for physical games.

>>718888231 (OP)
Discs are slow.
Discs are a point of failure.
Discs are immutable, so you always have to do a post-install patch routine.
Discs are limited in storage.
That's just the consumer side. From a publisher side, boxes and discs represent an even bigger gamble and addition to the budget. Those discs and boxes have to be printed, and stores have to buy them. When you can list your game on Steam and just pay publishing fees on units sold, it comes out cheaper. It also guarantees no stock problems that slow down your sales. It also allows you to push fixes easier. There are Daggerfall discs out there with the FunLove virus. There's no patch on a depot that will fix that those discs got shipped.

>>718896841
Because you already pay for video game music

>>718888231 (OP)
>selling games
Absolute scum behavior.

I have no interest in physical media. There is literally no benefit and only downsides.

>>718888231 (OP)
if you think that's bad wait until you see what happened to physically owning your car in 20 years

>>718888231 (OP)
I used to get physical Switch games but Game Key Cards ruined that so I guess I'm all digital now.

>>718889136
These are "playable games".

I'd rather just have no game than have a "playable**" game.

>>718888364
I wonder about consoles. Playstation discs will probably last 100 years, but the console? If that shit breaks, IT'S OVER.

>>718888231 (OP)
Most physical releases of PC games are just a box with a fucking digital code these days anyway, who fucking cares? If I wanted physical games, I'd buy a console but guess what? Console gaming in 2025 is fucking worthless. Neither the Shitch 2 nor the Gaystation 5 have any games and not a single person on the planet has bought an Xbox since the 360. Now fucking kill yourself.

Ah yes, because GameStop is the bastion of physical media, right

>>718888327
Legend has it, well its not a good legend, that a tornado caused all that to happen. Well that's what I saw. To be fair, I was very trashed from drinking all night.

I have digital games that I bought 15 years ago I can install and play in seconds
If I try to install a physical game from 15 years ago I need to figure out some way to get passed the retarded ass cd key shit for the game

>we live in the future of convenience
>NOOOO CONVENIENCE!

>>718892936
>gamestop in the mall closes down because there's like three other stores where you could also get TCG cards, funko pops, and anime figures
If only they sold games or something

>buy new game from gamestop
>they give me the opened display copy
Fuck those guys.

>>718897816
>sell game to gamestop
>they give me $10
>they mark it as $5 under retail and put it on the shelf

>>718897882
>>sell game to gamestop
>>they give me $10
Bullshit

>>718897726
Convenience has made us weaker as a whole

>>718897939
That's just America's young generation being retarded

>>718888231 (OP)
Gen Z unironically don't have space for that. They live in tiny apartments

>>718888231 (OP)
>Why is everyone so obsessed with running water nowadays? What happened to actually using chamber pots and wells?
This is how dumb you sound.

>>718898010
heh

>>718898010
The ability to permanently post your retarded childhood takes somewhere on the internet for millions upon millions of people to see and for it to never truly go away has ruined too many things
Everyone does retarded shit as a kid
Mine and yours is just is permanently lost to time

>>718888231 (OP)
>buy game 20 years ago or more
>entire game is on the cartridge or disc

>buy game now
>even if its bootable and technically playable from start to finish, its missing content or important fixes from updates
You were always buying a license, it was just less obvious. Nothing is changed now. Good luck playing expansions, DLC or accessing update content when the servers on the games you actually own.

Why is gamestop memearrowing on twitter?

>>718888231 (OP)
If developers won't put their games on physical then digital is the only option.

I DO NOT want to play modern games on Bluray disc speeds.

>>718888364
>forgot my account password and lost access to the email
>$10,000 down the drain

>>718897816
Same thing happened to me once. Wanted the game brand new, $59.99. Employee goes behind the desk and pulls out the disc from a little white sleeve and puts it in the case and rings it up. I was like what the fuck? If it doesn't have the shrink wrap on it it's NOT fucking New

Do you print out all your porn too?

>>718898363
And this is the other problem with physical media.
It's either low load speeds or you pull a Nintendo and make cartridges glorified mini SSDs which drive up the price of physical media while companies still opt to have you install the game to system memory because its cheaper.

>>718898393
>lost access to the email
This nigga using an @gmail.com address.

>>718889017
>took great care of my shit. ps1 discs struggling, n64/gameboy carts that don't save...
You did not take good care of your shit

>>718888231 (OP)
The only benefit nowadays is resale value. I don't tend to sell my games, and for me the convenience of digital usually outweighs the cheaper price you may find on the used market. I don't get the consoomer mindset of having a whole wall of physical games, though I confess I am too attached to get rid of all my old discs/cartridges, even if I mostly stick to flashcarts/emulation.

>>718889309
>>718889583
This. The paranoia around ownership is silly. Steam, Sony, Nintendo etc. going down and you losing access to your entire library is highly, highly unlikely. Worse comes to worst, I'll just pirate, but I'm not worried.

>>718888231 (OP)
>Why is everyone so obsessed with digital games nowadays? What happened to actually PHYSICALLY OWNING your games?

Money.

Game studios no longer have to spend money making cartridges or discs. They can add in online-only functionality, and then when they want you to buy their newest slop offering they can just shut down the servers and remove access to the old game. It is a system designed from the ground up to get every last fucking dime from the player they can.

I have it on very good authority from my supervisors at Nintendo that Steam will be shutting down in 2 more weeks.

>>718888231 (OP)
>What happened to actually PHYSICALLY OWNING your games?
Capitalism

>>718888231 (OP)
Gamestop would not exist right now if its stock didn't become a meme, and when that miracle happened to them the company chose to put it into fucking NFTs

>>718897939
grow up

>>718888231 (OP)
>buy cyberpunk plastic edition
>servers shut down
>stuck with unpatched broken mess

>>718899254
it's over...

>>718888231 (OP)
when i try to pirate physical vidya i have to bring a gun

>>718899254
How many of these sales never even had a physical option?

>>718888327
It's even better than that. OP picture started as a chinese meme, complete and total castration of the american youth. Offtopic thread

>>718888231 (OP)
>shitter screencap
>shitter screencap of kikestop
The same ones that'll sell you 50 cents and a pack of gum for your used physical game?

>>718888231 (OP)
Some of us actually lived through the hellworld of 00's PC physical games.

>>718899254
>>718899170
>>718899012
>>718897903
are these bots?

>>718888231 (OP)
gamestop is based

>>718899534
>there's no way a real human would have contempt for Gamestop

>>718899534
I am a robot
beep boop

>>718888327
oh shut the fuck up
would it be better if he just greentexted the story himself?

>>718899012
Gamestop really had no endgame. It was dying because they sold a fraction of the games, and they likely had plenty of locations that nobody went to.
The 360 and PS3 experimented with download sales before the One and PS4 (and later) fully embraced them. Physical on PC was already dead. People saw the convenience and speed of downloads, leaving Gamestop no real reason to exist.

>>718899625
It would be better if you talked about what your favourite twitter acount said on twitter, on twitter itself.

>>718888364
dvd rot is real

Niggas been like
>Is it on Netflix or Max?
>No its on Bangzoo Premium.
>Guess I won't watch it then.

>>718888231 (OP)
I haven't cared at all about owning physical games since at least 2012. I just started collecting recently when I heard about the end of the internet (*Banning of VPN, Age and ID verification, etc). I've been going around the state collecting consoles and games. So far I have a ps1, ps2, ps3, ps4, ps5, xbox, xbox 360, Super Nintendo, Gamecube, Wii, Sega Dreamcast and a PSP. Also got a bunch of games. I'm not planning to use any of this stuff unless piracy becomes impossible or highly risky.

>>718888463
>his XBone 360 didn't destroy his discs

>>718900071
I remember I had a DVD drive in my PC a long time ago that wouldn't stop the disc before dropping the spindle half the time when you hit eject, so the disc would spin down in the tray.

Do these things work?

>>718900224
The actual data is closer to the label than the bottom of the disc, so yes, resurfacers work within reason.

>>718898640
Not a bad idea, Need to get some binders and a thermal laminator.

>>718888231 (OP)
The battle isn't physical vs. digital, it's DRM vs no DRM

>>718890329
How is this off topic, you retard

>>718901312
It's games vs no games. I choose games.

>>718888231 (OP)
>meme arrows outside of 9gag

>>718888231 (OP)
The solution is to have digital games you own when you buy and that can be fixed easily by the people if the servers need to be taken down or there are no centralized servers you have to connect to anyway.

I unironically own nothing and I'm happy, I'm still riding on my 3 years of gamepass for $1, the moment it ends later this year I will renew 3 years for just $15 and in between I got like 10 AAA games for free because of Microsoft Rewards, I'm a master of getting free shit

>>718894440
I wanna do this, do you anons have redundancy backups? seems like a waste but better safe than sorry?

>>718888231 (OP)
That pic is retarded. If game is server-based you will lose access to it even if you got it on disc.

>>718888231 (OP)
and what is inside the "physical" game?

>>718888231 (OP)
When I was a kid and went to the dirty crackhouse shopping mall to buy a game, I couldn't immerse myself in the game when I got back home.
I was still spiritually stuck in the dirty crackhouse shopping mall.

>>718903732
yeah, thumb drives, externals, cdrw. Going to have to buy new ones in a few years, keep cycling through backups. But it's better than hoping and praying.

>>718888231 (OP)
>There's an alternative universe where you have 10+ of these things just for your steam library

>>718905715
>this is somehow a bad thing
You own that, you don't own anything on steam zoomie

>>718888327
>Pay $60 for digital game
>It's just a license
>Can't share the game or sell it
>Servers shut down and left with nothing

Remind me against how this is the future?

>>718888327
BASED
fpbp

>>718897356
suddenly all those homeless people playing games webms make sense.

>>718897726
shill

>>718906076
You don't own shit if you can't find it moron

>>718888231 (OP)
>disk breaks
>no more game
>own game digitally
>have it forever
it's that easy retard.

>nooo but what if steam becomes evil and starts mandating you put a microchip in your penis and activate with a barbed wire sounding rod every time you want to play games
Ok I'll pirate it. So what?

>>718892195
THANK YOU DORO

>>718897390
the hell I look like this.

>>718906490
What if you can't pirate? Meaning, what if Internet Service Providers make internet piracy impossible? What if government agencies crack down on your ability to pirate using the internet?

>>718888364
>buy game for back log on steam
>forget
>down the drain anyway
just be yourself

>>718888231 (OP)
Just stop being literally retarded. Download a game with easily circumvented or absent DRM to YOUR computer and there is literally no issue.
>It's just a license
It was always just data.
>Can't share the game or sell it
Burn the copy onto a disc or USB and pass it on.
>Servers shut down
Stop buying slop where this can happen. Community hosted dedicated servers and no authentication servers or bust.

>>718888231 (OP)
>buy disc
>insert into console
>sorry you need to update your firmware
>ok fine
>sorry you need to update the game too
>ok fine
>devs legally deleted half the content in the original game with the update and the game is unplayable without the update
WOW SO DIFFERENT

>>718907704
In desperation, somebody will make a new internet and call it Internet 2.

>>718888327
Based

>>718908024
Doubtful, but I like your optimism. In the mean time, collect and store data both digitally and physically.

>>718892195
THANK YOU DORO!

we need laws for digital ownership that protect consumers

>>718892195
>property is 'thirdie'
get a load of this kike

I bet you own zero bluray movies.

You literally voted with your wallet for this. If you didn't like it you'd support GOG more.

>>718909859
>you should've supported the storefront that tried to be even more predatory than epic

>>718888364
that's why back in the day devs would always tell you to make a backup copy.

>>718888231 (OP)
Is it the /v/idya guy how did he manage to be there?

Because digital is just naturally better than physical, and I say this as a guy who actually bought physical games.
>hmmm I want to get a new game today
>have to actually find a store nearby that sells games
>have to get over there
>nothing but mainstream AAA slop mixed with shovelware and repackaged old games
>get back home
>have to get the disc out and put it in
>installation is much slower than today
>disc has to stay in while I play the game
>have to swap discs if I want to play a different game
>I have all this clutter gathering dust and taking up space when I'm not playing other games
>have to worry about the disc getting used up or scratched or the data on the disc getting corrupted
Meanwhile digital
>if I want to get a game I just pop open steam
>billions of games to choose from - old and new, indie, small studio and AAA, all kinds of genres, both niche and mainstream
>pick several and add them to my account
>can install and play them right away
>can just switch to a different game easily
>nothing takes up space
I will never understand normalfags worshipping physical games.
>BUT OWNING LE GAMES
Games I paid for over a decade ago are still there and I can redownload them easily and they'll be in a fresh, clean state. To me that is owning. If you're obsessed this much, pirate or use GoG.
>BUT MUH MANUALS
Cheap paper garbage with basic information. Only really old games had cool manuals. Whatever.

>>718907857
wtf is this real?

>>718909859
I do vote, I only ever pay for physical releases.

>>718910280
it's not normalfags worshipping physical, it's oldschool autists who can't let go of the past

>>718888231 (OP)
You can thank Gaben for that

>>718888327
/thread. op must kill himself now.

>>718888231 (OP)
any time i see some big company's twitter make a post like this i just immediately think of this

>>718888231 (OP)
>buy hard drive
>download a billion games (for free) and put them on hard drive
>as long as hard drive doesn't die, I get to play all my games any time and I own them
>takes up a small amount of space, don't need an entire cabinet just to store all my games
>can copy and share them with others without having to lend it
>worst case if the hard drive dies and I wasn't backing up like a retard, I can download them again
I think the only reason people prefer physical is just for the novelty of having a disc. Having the game downloaded is superior in every way. Not to mention a lot of new physical discs don't even have the game on them, they just have a code that lets you download it from the distributor servers.
Obviously tying yourself to a platform that has the power to take your games away and ban you from being able to play them is a poor decision if you care about longevity, but you can just pirate them instead to solve that problem.

I haven't bought a gamr in nine years and just pirate everything that i can.

>>718903493
I'm mostly a physical fag, but more out financial reasons(better deals, can resell, can buy used) and I have zero issues with gamepass.
"You dont own your games! Its a renting service" yes, just like steam, but gamepass doesnt lie to you

>>718888327
The only correct response.

>>718910834
You don't legally own the games, but practically, you do. It's not a real concern, despite all the retarded fearmongering

>twitter screenshot of a corporate intern's epic relatable meme
>newfags reply to it unironically being like "omg so true bro!!!"
Can't you just... stay on twitter?
>>718910406
>>718910487
Gaben was the best option PC gaming could go with, retards. Do all you Valve haters think EA, Ubisoft, Activision or Microsoft would just play nice and let you keep your physical games forever if Valve never started Steam? Companies already toyed with the idea of limited installs and online shit without Steam.

>>718911025
I love Steam. It's a fantastic service and I'm grateful we have it.

>>718910392
nobody wishing for physical is older than 30. that shit was aids. *whiiiiiir* *breaks your cd*

At least gaming had a good run for 20 years.
I can continue to build a physical collection of existing games for another couple of decades easily, like nothing ever changed, before I have to face the digital goyscape.

>>718888231 (OP)
Just pirate them.

>>718897316
That's why emulation and archival are important.

the only gaming device you'll ever need

I started buying physical again for ps2 stuff for the fun of it and honestly its a pain in the ass to find storage for it and if i move its going to be a hassle compared to my ssd of pirated shit

>>718888231 (OP)
>Download a software
>Crack DRM
>Store software on some physical storage that I own, be it HDD, optical disc, whatever
Looks like I now physically own digital games. I'm pretty sure it wasn't hard. Why are people whining about this?

Everyone against digital have to create hypotheticals wheres its bad in like 40 years maybe hopefully please be bad please be evil steam

>>718913914
At which time I'll be enjoying my digital library and some physicalfag's house burnt down.

>>718888231 (OP)
Having the box for a video game does not meaningfully change my experience playing in the same way that, say, holding a physical book changes the feeling of reading it compared to on a screen.
I have no interest in dedicating a large amount of physical space to a video game collection when it doesn't affect how I enjoy it. I willingly have multiple book shelves full of books because the physical presence of a book affects how I enjoy it.

>>718913872
>Why are people whining about this?
Because to them a 32 cent lump of polycarbonate pressed into a circle is a "game". They conflate the distribution method with ownership of some immortal game license they get to keep in perpetuity.

Good luck getting a replacement for a PS2 disc when it gets a hairline scratch and is suddenly unusable. I'm sure they'll press a fresh one off just for you.

>>718888231 (OP)
My room is too full already with games

>>718889058
>house THAT I OWN
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Good one

>>718888231 (OP)
I went to Gamestop the other day and these motherfuckers wanted $90 for Spiderman Web of Shadows. I hate the used game market.

>>718888231 (OP)
>server shuts down
Multiplayer games are for third-worlders

>>718894440
let it there for a couple of years and will lose data.

>>718916509
HDDs aren't too bad. Just power them on every so often. SSDs can lose data in that time and shouldn't be used for archival.

>over a decade ago now around the time skyrim came out
>super excited, loved morrowind on the xbox and later oblivion on the PC
>dad takes me to gamestop
>pick up skyrim
>get home
>open box
>it's just a slip of paper with a steam code
>steam? what the fuck is steam? i don't want that faggot shit i want to put a CD in

and life only got gayer and more aggravating from there

>>718888463
>>718900161
I had a CD drive snap my Diablo 2 play disc in half.
I just used a burned backup copy until LoD came out.

It's more convenient/comfortable
3 clicks and you get your game instantly
The vast majority of people will always choose the easier option over the reasonable one

>>718888231 (OP)
In short: you can't share them with a friend and AT THE SAME TIME playing with him, so you can't even pay half the price upfront. Digital items are generally always available and often discounted, while physical items disappear, and retailers or scalpers take over with higher prices. Then there's the fact that not everyone has the space to store them, but that's a minor issue.

The downsides of digital are the higher risk of account theft, bans, and therefore exclusion from your library. And obviously, you can't resell them; at most, you get a refund.

>>718888231 (OP)
You know the funny thing? After Blockbuster closed, instead of realizing the imminent end of the physical market, Gamestop continued down the same path that led to Blockbuster's bankruptcy. If they had been farsighted, they would have opened a digital store, but instead they're reduced to selling cards and toys.

>>718888231 (OP)
More and more zoomers are growing up during a time where digital is the norm. Xbox when they tried that no-disc no borrow shit a decade ago was simply too far ahead of the game, but it's over now

>>718889309
>Unironically, there's no benefit in using a disc over owning a digital license to a game in the current gen.
In 20 years a digital store front may be gone entirely and you will be unable to buy the games on it. You cannot get Wii digital games from its store, or even redownload your purchases on it anymore, and that's less than two decades old. The same will inevitably happen to all platforms.

Before you say
>but modern games need patches
Very few games even today outright require a day one patch to run, yes, even for Microsoft and Sony consoles. That shit is a myth. Yeah a lot of them do have day one patches, but they will still work and function without those downloaded.

>>718898942
>Steam, Sony, Nintendo etc. going down and you losing access to your entire library is highly, highly unlikely.
Literally the opposite is true. It's not unlikely, it's inevitable. Do you sincerely believe that Nintendo and Sony are going to keep the Wii U and PS3 store fronts up? Most consoles from that era or earlier don't even allow you to purchase new games anymore, just redownload, and some like the Wii have had their services shutdown entirely.

>>718888231 (OP)
physical is fucking dead
>games don't come complete on disc anymore
>day one patches, updates, balance patches
>trickle of content
>DLC and season passes
>online multiplayer tied to (((centralized servers)))
>discs are just glorified physical DRM
>no means to backup and preserve your game's data. you need to hack your console and dump your games
>>718888364
a million times peferable to
>say word
>all your games stolen

I think having both is the way to go. Be prepared for anything.

>>718893301
This is the only true solution. Gay Ben can choke on my cock.

>>718888231 (OP)
And they said prices were supposed to go down with digital, because no printing/shipping/storage costs... What a load of shit

>>718888231 (OP)
Are you also mad not owning movies and music on CDs/DVDs?
Time to move on boomer.

>>718892405
Only weebs and plebbit would use them in early-to-mid 2010's. Then aggregator xitter accounts blew up with their repost of 4chan posts since Elon Musk bought xitter.

>>718888231 (OP)
nobody has enough money to own a house and maintain a space for a game collection

>>718888231 (OP)
>download the game data with DRM free executable
>back up across multiple devices
there, I own my game, nobody can take it away from me now and I don't have to worry about discs shitting the bed for no reason (already happened multiple times with my x360 games)

>>718888231 (OP)
Nobody cares about you, the real reason is that digital sales are easier to bullshit around to promote/shill/engage the idea of being succesful.
See: recent aticles saying that AC:shadows is the best seller game in europe.

>>718893089
It's alright, not everyone can have an IQ above 5.

>>718919303
Most physical games are playable right out the disc offline at ps5, however.

SHUT THE FUCK UP

>>718892006
how many times has the internet stopped working? you'll always be able to download your games

>>718888231 (OP)
Physical games are just a license as well. It's just typically more DRM-Free, but even that's not consistently true. Otherwise, there's no difference between owning a game bought on a pressed disc and buying a DRM-Free game digitally, except that with the latter, you get a free off-site backup included.

>>718924914
They also rot. I have a couple of Gen 6 discs that are already showing signs of early rotting. They're not in the sunlight nor in a humid environment. That shit will happen since DVD's have a theoretical life expectancy of 50 years...if they are archival discs. Mass produced discs on the other hand like movies/games are far shorter.

>>718924371
>playable
I don't give a shit if it boots. the moment the servers kick the bucket you're left with unfinished garbage. I want the complete game like in the PS2 days you cocksucker.

>>718916509
backups are a thing little timmy

>>718888231 (OP)
I have never lost a digital game, I have lost several physical ones.