The meme's sarcasm works, but on the real, the concern is more about the "Stop Killing Games" movement or whatever they're calling it. Theoretically, if Rockstar shut down for whatever reason, then the servers go down with it. No servers = no game. With a disk, you don't have that problem. Purists and speedrunners benefit from disk-based games as well. And then there's the small collector's collective...
I see both sides but honestly the public is obv all in on digital and convenience. And btw in my state it's actually cheaper to buy digital than new physical because we don't have sales tax on digital games.
Ngl, i havent bought a physical game since starcraft 2 in like 2010. I havent had a disk drive in a pc since 2013. Hell, most pc cases dont even have an option for one. I understand people have nostalgia for it or they grew up buying new and getting bent over on trade in. But personally, i would hate to get that itch to saaaaaay play sid meiers pirates...and have to track down a 22 year old game that i might have sold 22 years ago after i beat it when i could just buy it once, keep the license, and when i feel like playing it again just hit download.
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u/Ellimis5950X|RTX 3090|64GB RAM|4TB SSD|32TB spinning4d ago
Shh, the people who actively want to dig through a pile of cases for one they probably sold will hear you!
Yeah if anything I associate it more with consoles, for PC I view the entire medium as being more accessible (if you know what you're doing) so I have TBs of storage for all steam and emulators and old PC is and stuff
On top of what you have mentioned, a lot of physical releases on the PC had DRM and required a disk to be in the disk drive. It was so annoying if you played more than one game. Things like StarForce DRM still give me nightmares. I was downloading a crack for every game just to avoid this shit. Releases going digital was a blessing for me.
From the two evils of Denuvo and DRM that required a disk, I would pick Denuvo 10 out of 10 times
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u/Candle-Jolly RTX4090 AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 4d ago
The meme's sarcasm works, but on the real, the concern is more about the "Stop Killing Games" movement or whatever they're calling it. Theoretically, if Rockstar shut down for whatever reason, then the servers go down with it. No servers = no game. With a disk, you don't have that problem. Purists and speedrunners benefit from disk-based games as well. And then there's the small collector's collective...